Peru Water Department, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Peru Water Department
Peru Water Department serves about 11,417 people through 4,843 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 groundwater, in Miami County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5252016; phone on file: 765-473-7651. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Peru Water Department is 18.6 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2021 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 14.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 18.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 8.9 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. Peru Water Department's 7 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Indiana and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Miami County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Peru Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Peru Utilities/Grissom | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Converse Water Works | 1,265 | 6.5 ppb |
| Bunker Hill Water Works | 900 | 1.31 ppb |
| Deer Creek Estates Home Water Assoc. | 265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells Homeowners Association, Inc. | 98 | 2 ppb |
| Kings Court Mobile Home Park | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roads End Mobile Home Park | 60 | 0.38 ppb |
| Hilltop Ridge Apartments | 52 | 26 ppb |
| Hilltop Ridge Apartments Phase Two | 29 | 0.66 ppb |
| Willow Springs Mhp | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Peru, 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 Peru 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.