Huntingburg Municipal Water, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Huntingburg Municipal Water
Huntingburg Municipal Water serves about 6,526 people through 2,692 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 surface water, in Dubois County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5219007; phone on file: 812-683-4280. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7 ppb from 11.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Huntingburg Municipal Water is 11.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 11.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 2.32 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.7 ppb |
How Huntingburg Municipal Water 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. Huntingburg Municipal Water's 4.4 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Indiana and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dubois County
10 other systems share Dubois County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Huntingburg Municipal Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jasper Municipal Water Utility | 17,440 | 2.89 ppb |
| Patoka Lake Regional Water | 13,503 | 5.6 ppb |
| Dubois Water Utilities | 9,078 | 2.49 ppb |
| Ireland Utilities, Inc. | 4,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Henry Water Corporation | 3,293 | 3.3 ppb |
| Ferdinand Water Department | 2,918 | 5.3 ppb |
| St. Anthony Water Utility | 1,813 | 1.29 ppb |
| Holland Water Works | 1,200 | 2.4 ppb |
| Birdseye Water System | 972 | - |
| Duff Water Corporation | 825 | 5.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huntingburg, 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 Huntingburg Municipal Water 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.