St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc., IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc.
St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc. serves about 658 people through 222 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 surface water, in Spencer County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5274013; phone on file: 812-393-9783. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc.'s lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc. is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
Against other Indiana systems
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. Meinrad Utilities, Inc.'s 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Indiana and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Spencer County
8 other systems share Spencer County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reo Water Corporation | 3,875 | 6 ppb |
| Santa Claus Water Utility | 3,683 | 3 ppb |
| Finch Newton Water, Inc. | 2,672 | 3.15 ppb |
| Rockport Water | 2,520 | 1.31 ppb |
| Dale Water Works | 1,637 | 1.59 ppb |
| Gentryville Water Utility | 1,625 | 1.53 ppb |
| Chrisney Water Department | 823 | 0.79 ppb |
| Grandview Municipal Water Utility | 765 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for St. Meinrad, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. Meinrad, 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. Meinrad Utilities, Inc. 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.