Switz City Water Works, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Switz City Water Works
Switz City Water Works serves about 888 people through 355 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 Greene County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5228009; phone on file: 812-360-8031. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Switz City Water Works's lead record
That is up 3 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Switz City Water Works is 18.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 18.4 ppb over 15 |
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. Switz City Water Works's 7 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Indiana and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Greene County
6 other systems share Greene County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Switz City Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern Heights Utilities | 19,028 | 1.71 ppb |
| Linton Municipal Water Utility | 7,430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ellis Water Company, Inc. | 3,772 | 1.53 ppb |
| Jasonville Water Department | 3,660 | 3 ppb |
| Lyons Water Utility | 1,125 | 2 ppb |
| Newberry Water Utility | 249 | 8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bloomington, 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 Switz City Water Works 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.