Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.9 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.
Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration at a glance
Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration serves about 145 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Joseph County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5271026; phone on file: 574-259-5427. 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 Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration is 5.9 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.9 ppb |
How Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration 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. Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration's 5.9 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Indiana and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in St. Joseph County
14 other systems share St. Joseph County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Bend Water Works | 115,000 | 4.7 ppb |
| Mishawaka Utilities | 49,675 | 7.1 ppb |
| University Of Notre Dame | 7,400 | 3 ppb |
| Walkerton Light & Water | 2,262 | 8.2 ppb |
| Sisters Of Holy Cross-St. Marys College | 2,111 | - |
| North Liberty Water Works | 1,896 | 1.42 ppb |
| New Carlisle Water Works | 1,861 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lakeville Water Department | 750 | 0.82 ppb |
| Aqua Indiana - Wedgewood Park Water Util | 645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hamilton Grove | 384 | 7.7 ppb |
Next steps for Mishawaka, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mishawaka, 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 Sisters-St. Francis Perpetual Adoration 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.