Universal Water Works, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Universal Water Works serves about 473 people through 189 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Vermillion County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5283011; phone on file: 812-208-2897. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.6 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Universal Water Works is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Universal Water Works's 1.4 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Indiana and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Vermillion County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Universal Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton Water Utility | 4,773 | 6.8 ppb |
| Clinton Township Water Company | 2,300 | 2 ppb |
| Fairview Park Water Utilities | 1,386 | 3 ppb |
| Cayuga Water Department | 1,162 | 2 ppb |
| St. Bernice Water Corp. | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillsdale Water Corporation | 735 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dana Water Works | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newport Water Works | 495 | 3 ppb |
| Perrysville Water Works | 470 | - |
| Vermillion Rise Mega Park | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Centerpoint, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Centerpoint, 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 Universal 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. 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.