Lacrosse Water Department, IN
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 22 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Lacrosse Water Department at a glance
Lacrosse Water Department serves about 540 people through 256 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 Laporte County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5246015; phone on file: 574-806-0411. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 21.08 ppb from 0.92 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lacrosse Water Department is 22 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0.92 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 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. Lacrosse Water Department's 22 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Indiana and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Laporte County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lacrosse Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan City Department Of Water Works | 33,996 | 1.9 ppb |
| Laporte Water Works | 22,197 | 1.9 ppb |
| Westville Correctional Facility | 2,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Beach Water Department | 2,050 | 0.52 ppb |
| South Coast Conservancy District | 2,013 | 2.6 ppb |
| Kingsford Heights Water | 1,800 | 1.5 ppb |
| Westville Water Department | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Durham Estates | 1,099 | 0.68 ppb |
| Wanatah Water Utility | 1,050 | 0.9 ppb |
| J. B. Water Works, Inc. | 307 | 0.73 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lacrosse Water Department whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.