Countryside Villas, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.81 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Countryside Villas serves about 48 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Howard County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5234013; phone on file: 765-233-9095. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Countryside Villas is 1.81 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.81 ppb |
How Countryside Villas compares
Of the 687 Indiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.31 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Countryside Villas's 1.81 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Indiana and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Howard County
9 other systems share Howard County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Countryside Villas. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Kokomo | 59,313 | 2 ppb |
| Greentown Municipal Water | 2,500 | 0.87 ppb |
| Indiana American Water - Russiaville | 1,178 | 2 ppb |
| Western Estates Mobile Home Park | 248 | 4.74 ppb |
| Timbernest Townhouses | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Oaks Of Kokomo | 150 | - |
| Village Green Mobile Home Park | 102 | 11.6 ppb |
| Southwest Civic Shareholders Association | 55 | - |
| Dixon Woods Apartments | 25 | 2.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Wayne, IN may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Countryside Villas whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.