Schneider Water Department, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Schneider Water Department at a glance
Schneider Water Department serves about 267 people through 123 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5245042; phone on file: 219-669-8602. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Schneider Water Department is 0.3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.3 ppb |
How Schneider Water Department 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. Schneider Water Department's 0.3 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Indiana and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Lake County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Schneider Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Northwest | 210,510 | 3 ppb |
| Hammond Water Works Department | 78,384 | 3 ppb |
| Crown Point Water Works | 30,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Schererville Water Department | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| East Chicago Water Works | 26,370 | 8 ppb |
| St. John Municipal Water Utility | 25,700 | 2.9 ppb |
| Highland Water Works | 23,984 | 2.4 ppb |
| Munster Water Company | 23,894 | 2 ppb |
| Griffith Water Department | 16,893 | 1.01 ppb |
| Dyer Water Department | 16,800 | 9.9 ppb |
Next steps for Schneider, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Schneider, 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 Schneider 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.