Milford Water Department, 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.
Milford Water Department at a glance
Milford Water Department serves about 1,556 people through 626 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 Kosciusko County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5243017; phone on file: 574-658-4614. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Milford Water Department is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Indiana systems
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. Milford Water Department's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Indiana and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Kosciusko County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Milford Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Warsaw | 13,835 | 2 ppb |
| Syracuse Water Company | 2,810 | - |
| Silver Lake Water Works | 1,030 | 1.14 ppb |
| Mentone Water Company | 1,001 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pierceton Water Works | 928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Etna Green Water Department | 663 | 4.37 ppb |
| Turkey Creek Regional Sewer District | 593 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indiana American Water - Claypool | 413 | 0 (not detected) |
| Regency Pointe Estates Mobile Home Park | 345 | - |
| Merrywood Mobile Home Park | 210 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Milford Water Department'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 Milford Water Department 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.