St. John Municipal Water Utility, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
St. John Municipal Water Utility at a glance
St. John Municipal Water Utility serves about 25,700 people through 9,765 service connections, which makes it a large 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: IN5245043; phone on file: 219-365-4655. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. John Municipal Water Utility is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
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. St. John Municipal Water Utility's 2.9 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Indiana and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Lake County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. John Municipal Water Utility. 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 |
| 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 |
| Indiana American Water - Lowell | 11,908 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. John, 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 St. John Municipal Water Utility 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.