Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility, IN
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 31.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility serves about 186 people through 5 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Noble County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5257023; phone on file: 317-234-1955. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility's lead record
That is up 31.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility is 31.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility compares
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. Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility's 31.3 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Indiana and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Noble County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kendallville Water Department | 10,300 | 4.06 ppb |
| Ligonier Water Works | 4,405 | 5.8 ppb |
| Avilla Water Department | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Albion Water & Sewer | 2,349 | 8.51 ppb |
| Cromwell Water Works | 550 | 1.89 ppb |
| Eagles Nest Estates | 350 | 3.7 ppb |
| Rome City Housing Auth. - Warrener Court | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grate Properties Mhc | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northport Mobile Home Park | 47 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leisure Lane Mobile Home Park | 31 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.