Share Foundation, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.67 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Share Foundation
Share Foundation serves about 86 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Laporte County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5246011; phone on file: 574-340-9559. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Share Foundation's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Share Foundation is 0.67 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.67 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Share Foundation's 0.67 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Indiana and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Laporte County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Share Foundation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan City Department Of Water Works | 33,996 | 1.9 ppb |
| Laporte Water Works | 22,197 | 1.9 ppb |
| Westville Correctional Facility | 2,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Beach Water Department | 2,050 | 0.52 ppb |
| South Coast Conservancy District | 2,013 | 2.6 ppb |
| Kingsford Heights Water | 1,800 | 1.5 ppb |
| Westville Water Department | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Durham Estates | 1,099 | 0.68 ppb |
| Wanatah Water Utility | 1,050 | 0.9 ppb |
| Lacrosse Water Department | 540 | 22 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rolling Prairie, 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 Share Foundation 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.