Fairway Regional Water District, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Fairway Regional Water District serves about 210 people through 84 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5245009; phone on file: 219-669-8602. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairway Regional Water District is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fairway Regional Water District 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. Fairway Regional Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Indiana and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Lake County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairway Regional Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Northwest | 210,510 | 3 ppb |
| Hammond Water Works Department | 78,384 | 3 ppb |
| Crown Point Water Works | 30,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Schererville Water Department | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| East Chicago Water Works | 26,370 | 8 ppb |
| St. John Municipal Water Utility | 25,700 | 2.9 ppb |
| Highland Water Works | 23,984 | 2.4 ppb |
| Munster Water Company | 23,894 | 2 ppb |
| Griffith Water Department | 16,893 | 1.01 ppb |
| Dyer Water Department | 16,800 | 9.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Fairway Regional Water District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fairway Regional Water District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.