Lake Cicott Shores, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.89 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.
About Lake Cicott Shores
Lake Cicott Shores serves about 94 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cass County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5209005; phone on file: 765-714-9160. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Cicott Shores is 0.89 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.89 ppb |
How Lake Cicott Shores 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. Lake Cicott Shores's 0.89 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Indiana and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Cass County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Cicott Shores. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Logansport Municipal Utility-Well Field | 18,369 | 3.4 ppb |
| Galveston Water Works | 1,258 | 1.86 ppb |
| Walton Water Works | 1,040 | 1.21 ppb |
| Royal Center Water Utility | 861 | 1.5 ppb |
| Anoka Acres Mobile Home Park | 127 | 2.9 ppb |
Next steps for Monticello, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Monticello, 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 Lake Cicott Shores 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.