South Coast Conservancy District, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
South Coast Conservancy District at a glance
South Coast Conservancy District serves about 2,013 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Laporte County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5246004; phone on file: 219-363-4344. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
South Coast Conservancy District's lead record
That is up 1.8 ppb from 0.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Coast Conservancy District is 2.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.25 ppb |
How South Coast Conservancy District 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. South Coast Conservancy District's 2.6 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Indiana and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Laporte County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Coast Conservancy District. 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 |
| 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 |
| J. B. Water Works, Inc. | 307 | 0.73 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; North Judson, 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 South Coast Conservancy District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.