Gas City Water Department, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.26 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.
About Gas City Water Department
Gas City Water Department serves about 6,000 people through 2,700 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Grant County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5227006; phone on file: 765-674-6995. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gas City Water Department is 1.26 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Indiana systems
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. Gas City Water Department's 1.26 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Indiana and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Grant County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gas City Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marion City Water Works | 28,363 | 1.92 ppb |
| Upland Water Department | 3,308 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fairmount Water Works | 2,756 | 1.4 ppb |
| Jonesboro Water Department | 2,034 | 5.6 ppb |
| Swayzee Water Utility | 975 | 8.46 ppb |
| Van Buren Municipal Utilities | 864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colonial Crest Llc | 101 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gas City, 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 Gas City Water Department 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.