Ingalls Water Company, 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.
Who runs the water here
Ingalls Water Company serves about 7,600 people through 2,139 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 groundwater, in Madison County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5248012; phone on file: 317-716-5978. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ingalls Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ingalls Water Company is 4.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4.1 ppb |
How Ingalls Water Company 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. Ingalls Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Indiana and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Madison County
11 other systems share Madison County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ingalls Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Water Department | 55,212 | 1.4 ppb |
| Elwood Water & Sewage | 8,586 | 1 ppb |
| Pendleton Water Company | 5,758 | 3.3 ppb |
| Alexandria Water Department | 5,149 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chesterfield Water Department | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lapel Municipal Water Company | 2,379 | - |
| Edgewood Water Department | 2,053 | 0 (not detected) |
| Frankton Water Works | 1,800 | 10.7 ppb |
| Indiana American Water - Summitville | 1,078 | - |
| Orestes Water Works | 400 | 3.22 ppb |
Next steps for Ingalls, IN
Look up your address in Ingalls Water Company'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 Ingalls Water Company 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.