Jasper Municipal Water Utility, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.89 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.
Jasper Municipal Water Utility at a glance
Jasper Municipal Water Utility serves about 17,440 people through 6,976 service connections, which makes it a large 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: IN5219009; phone on file: 812-482-5252. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.94 ppb from 0.95 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jasper Municipal Water Utility is 2.89 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.89 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.2 ppb |
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. Jasper Municipal Water Utility's 2.89 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Indiana and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dubois County
10 other systems share Dubois County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jasper Municipal Water Utility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Patoka Lake Regional Water | 13,503 | 5.6 ppb |
| Dubois Water Utilities | 9,078 | 2.49 ppb |
| Huntingburg Municipal Water | 6,526 | 4.4 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 |
Next steps for Jasper, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jasper, 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 Jasper Municipal Water Utility 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.