Putnamville Correctional Facility, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.33 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Putnamville Correctional Facility serves about 2,505 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5267005; phone on file: 765-653-8441. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Putnamville Correctional Facility's lead record
That is up 1.04 ppb from 2.29 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Putnamville Correctional Facility is 3.33 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.33 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.29 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Putnamville Correctional Facility's 3.33 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Indiana and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Putnam County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Putnamville Correctional Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greencastle Department Of Water | 12,699 | 0.8 ppb |
| Reelsville Water Company | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cloverdale Water Works | 2,225 | 3.46 ppb |
| South 43 Water Association, Inc. | 1,431 | 7 ppb |
| Roachdale Water Works | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bainbridge Water Works | 830 | 0 (not detected) |
| Van Bibber Lake Conservancy District | 830 | 2.2 ppb |
| Town Of Fillmore Utilities | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Walnut Water Company | 500 | 1.4 ppb |
| Russellville Water Works | 405 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Greencastle, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Greencastle, 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 Putnamville Correctional Facility 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.