Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy at a glance
Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy serves about 262 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Rush County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5270007; phone on file: 317-247-3107. 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 Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Indiana and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Rush County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rushville City Utility | 6,800 | 0.79 ppb |
| Carthage Water Department | 1,000 | - |
| Anderson Township Regional Sewer Dist. | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Water Works | 313 | 2.29 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.