North Lawrence Water Authority, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
About North Lawrence Water Authority
North Lawrence Water Authority serves about 11,625 people through 4,650 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 Lawrence County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5247004; phone on file: 812-279-2774. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2.31 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Lawrence Water Authority is 4.03 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.31 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.03 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
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. North Lawrence Water Authority's 3 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Indiana and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Lawrence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Lawrence Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford City Utilities | 14,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| East Lawrence Water Authority | 8,000 | 2 ppb |
| South Lawrence Utilities | 6,395 | 2.22 ppb |
| Mitchell Water Department | 5,000 | 1.22 ppb |
| Oolitic Water Works | 1,315 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bedford, 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 North Lawrence Water Authority 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.