Mallards Pointe Water System, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Mallards Pointe Water System serves about 150 people through 51 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Porter County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5264041; phone on file: 219-759-0193. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Mallards Pointe Water System's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mallards Pointe Water System is 1.4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 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. Mallards Pointe Water System's 1.4 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Indiana and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Porter County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mallards Pointe Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valparaiso Department Of Water Works | 36,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Hebron Water Department | 3,724 | 2.5 ppb |
| L-A-C Utilities | 2,441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kouts Water Works | 2,028 | 1 ppb |
| Ogden Dunes Water | 1,110 | 0.63 ppb |
| Forest Oaks Mhc, Llc | 500 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wanatah, 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 Mallards Pointe Water System 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.