Pendleton Water Company, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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 Pendleton Water Company
Pendleton Water Company serves about 5,758 people through 2,308 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Madison County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5248019; phone on file: 317-315-4252. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pendleton Water Company is 5.41 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.41 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 ppb |
How Pendleton Water Company 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. Pendleton Water Company's 3.3 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Indiana and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Madison County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Pendleton Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Water Department | 55,212 | 1.4 ppb |
| Elwood Water & Sewage | 8,586 | 1 ppb |
| Ingalls Water Company | 7,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alexandria Water Department | 5,149 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chesterfield Water Department | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lapel Municipal Water Company | 2,379 | - |
| Edgewood Water Department | 2,053 | 0 (not detected) |
| Frankton Water Works | 1,800 | 10.7 ppb |
| Indiana American Water - Summitville | 1,078 | - |
| Orestes Water Works | 400 | 3.22 ppb |
Next steps for Pendleton, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pendleton, 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 Pendleton Water Company 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.