Hazleton Water Department, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Hazleton Water Department at a glance
Hazleton Water Department serves about 288 people through 147 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Gibson County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5226004; phone on file: 812-779-6507. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hazleton Water Department's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hazleton Water Department is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Hazleton Water Department's 1 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Indiana and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Gibson County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hazleton Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton Water Department | 10,875 | 2 ppb |
| Gibson Water Authority | 4,835 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Branch Water Department | 4,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakland City Water Department | 2,938 | 0 (not detected) |
| Owensville Water Works | 2,148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haubstadt Water Department | 1,600 | 4.4 ppb |
| Francisco Water Department | 900 | 0.38 ppb |
| Patoka Water & Electric | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hazleton, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hazleton, 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 Hazleton 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. 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.