Dixon Woods Apartments, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Dixon Woods Apartments at a glance
Dixon Woods Apartments serves about 25 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Howard County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5234011; phone on file: 765-461-1190. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Dixon Woods Apartments's lead record
That is up 2.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dixon Woods Apartments is 2.88 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.88 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
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. Dixon Woods Apartments's 2.5 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Indiana and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Howard County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dixon Woods Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Kokomo | 59,313 | 2 ppb |
| Greentown Municipal Water | 2,500 | 0.87 ppb |
| Indiana American Water - Russiaville | 1,178 | 2 ppb |
| Western Estates Mobile Home Park | 248 | 4.74 ppb |
| Timbernest Townhouses | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Oaks Of Kokomo | 150 | - |
| Village Green Mobile Home Park | 102 | 11.6 ppb |
| Southwest Civic Shareholders Association | 55 | - |
| Countryside Villas | 48 | 1.81 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oakford, 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 Dixon Woods Apartments 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.