Fairmount Water Works, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Fairmount Water Works
Fairmount Water Works serves about 2,756 people through 1,156 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 Grant County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5227005; phone on file: 765-948-4632. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fairmount Water Works's lead record
That is down 2.7 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairmount Water Works is 27.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 27.2 ppb over 15 |
How Fairmount Water Works 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. Fairmount Water Works's 1.4 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Indiana and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Grant County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairmount Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marion City Water Works | 28,363 | 1.92 ppb |
| Gas City Water Department | 6,000 | 1.26 ppb |
| Upland Water Department | 3,308 | 2.2 ppb |
| Jonesboro Water Department | 2,034 | 5.6 ppb |
| Swayzee Water Utility | 975 | 8.46 ppb |
| Van Buren Municipal Utilities | 864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colonial Crest Llc | 101 | - |
Next steps for Fairmount, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fairmount, 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 Fairmount 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.