Union City Village Pws, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Union City Village Pws
Union City Village Pws serves about 1,650 people through 934 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 Darke County, Indiana. EPA system ID: OH1901212; phone on file: 765-964-3700. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Union City Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (3.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Union City Village Pws is 10.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Union City Village Pws's 2.4 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Indiana and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Union City, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Union City, 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 Union City Village Pws 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.