Rykers Ridge Water Company, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 ppb (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. 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.
Rykers Ridge Water Company at a glance
Rykers Ridge Water Company serves about 2,050 people through 820 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5239007; phone on file: 812-273-1851. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rykers Ridge Water Company is 2.3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
How Rykers Ridge 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. Rykers Ridge Water Company's 2.3 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Indiana and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Jefferson County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rykers Ridge Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison Water Department | 15,323 | 1.8 ppb |
| Kent Water Company | 6,750 | 1.89 ppb |
| Canaan Utilities | 4,428 | 2.22 ppb |
| Hanover Water Department | 2,597 | 2.73 ppb |
| Madison State Hospital | 1,375 | 1.94 ppb |
| Hanover College | 1,250 | 4.58 ppb |
Next steps for Madison, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Madison, 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 Rykers Ridge 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.