Indiana American Water - Seymour, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Indiana American Water - Seymour serves about 20,725 people through 8,290 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5236005; phone on file: 317-885-2408. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Indiana American Water - Seymour is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Indiana American Water - Seymour 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 - Seymour's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in Indiana and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Jackson County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Indiana American Water - Seymour. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson County Water Utility | 13,667 | 2.23 ppb |
| Crothersville Utilities | 1,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Water - Reddington | 1,080 | 2.28 ppb |
| Medora Water Department | 873 | 1.61 ppb |
| Kulich Rentals Inc. | 61 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Indiana American Water - Seymour'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 Indiana American Water - Seymour 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.