Greensburg Municipal Water Works, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.72 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Greensburg Municipal Water Works at a glance
Greensburg Municipal Water Works serves about 12,650 people through 5,060 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Decatur County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5216002; phone on file: 812-663-2641. 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 2024 (2.06 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greensburg Municipal Water Works is 2.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1.72 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.06 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
How Greensburg Municipal Water Works 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. Greensburg Municipal Water Works's 1.72 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Indiana and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Decatur County
4 other systems share Decatur County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Greensburg Municipal Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Decatur Co. Water Corp. | 3,440 | 1.18 ppb |
| Westport Water Company | 1,725 | 0.95 ppb |
| Lake Santee Rwwd | 1,500 | 2.6 ppb |
| St. Paul Municipal Water | 1,096 | 1.48 ppb |
Next steps for Greensburg, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Greensburg, 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 Greensburg Municipal Water Works 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.