West Terre Haute Water, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8 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.
West Terre Haute Water at a glance
West Terre Haute Water serves about 4,075 people through 1,630 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Vigo County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5284015; phone on file: 812-533-1053. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
West Terre Haute Water's lead record
That is up 6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Terre Haute Water is 8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 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. West Terre Haute Water's 8 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Indiana and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Vigo County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Terre Haute Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Terre Haute | 67,765 | 2 ppb |
| Seelyville Water Works | 6,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sullivan-Vigo Rural Water Corp. | 2,765 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fayette Township Water Assn. | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fci & Fpc - Terre Haute | 1,390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sisters Of Providence/St. Mary Of Woods | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trails Edge Apts | 260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morris Mobile Home Estates | 75 | 0.7 ppb |
| Rocky Acres Mobile Home Park | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leisure Acres Mobile Home Park | 49 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for West Terre Haute, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Terre Haute, 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 West Terre Haute Water 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.