Swayzee Water Utility, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.46 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.
Swayzee Water Utility at a glance
Swayzee Water Utility serves about 975 people through 430 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 Grant County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5227020; phone on file: 765-726-0505. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swayzee Water Utility is 8.46 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.46 ppb |
How Swayzee Water Utility 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. Swayzee Water Utility's 8.46 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Indiana and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Grant County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swayzee Water Utility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marion City Water Works | 28,363 | 1.92 ppb |
| Gas City Water Department | 6,000 | 1.26 ppb |
| Upland Water Department | 3,308 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fairmount Water Works | 2,756 | 1.4 ppb |
| Jonesboro Water Department | 2,034 | 5.6 ppb |
| Van Buren Municipal Utilities | 864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colonial Crest Llc | 101 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Swayzee, 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 Swayzee 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.