Indiana American Water - Mecca, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Indiana American Water - Mecca at a glance
Indiana American Water - Mecca serves about 905 people through 362 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Parke County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5261004; phone on file: 317-885-2408. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Indiana American Water - Mecca's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Indiana American Water - Mecca is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Indiana American Water - Mecca 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. Indiana American Water - Mecca's 2 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Indiana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Parke County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Indiana American Water - Mecca. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rockville Light & Water | 4,195 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montezuma Municipal Utility | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lyford Water Works | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rosedale Water Works | 810 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bloomingdale Water Works | 562 | 1 ppb |
| Marshall Water Works | 417 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Greenwood, 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 Indiana American Water - Mecca 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.