Versailles Water Works, MI

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.15 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.

Versailles Water Works at a glance

Versailles Water Works serves about 2,200 people through 1,030 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 Ripley County, Michigan. EPA system ID: IN5269006; phone on file: 812-689-6181. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Versailles Water Works is 1.15 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Versailles Water Works compares

Of the 1,227 Michigan systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 31 are over 15 ppb right now and 109 have gone over at some point. Versailles Water Works's 1.15 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Michigan and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Holton, MI 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 Versailles 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.