The Hills At St. Joe Farm, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
The Hills At St. Joe Farm at a glance
The Hills At St. Joe Farm serves about 25 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Joseph County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5271002; phone on file: 574-315-9668. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.63 ppb from 1.63 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Hills At St. Joe Farm is 1.63 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.63 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. The Hills At St. Joe Farm's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Indiana and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share St. Joseph County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Hills At St. Joe Farm. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Bend Water Works | 115,000 | 4.7 ppb |
| Mishawaka Utilities | 49,675 | 7.1 ppb |
| University Of Notre Dame | 7,400 | 3 ppb |
| Walkerton Light & Water | 2,262 | 8.2 ppb |
| Sisters Of Holy Cross-St. Marys College | 2,111 | - |
| North Liberty Water Works | 1,896 | 1.42 ppb |
| New Carlisle Water Works | 1,861 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lakeville Water Department | 750 | 0.82 ppb |
| Aqua Indiana - Wedgewood Park Water Util | 645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hamilton Grove | 384 | 7.7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in The Hills At St. Joe Farm's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask The Hills At St. Joe Farm 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.