Frankton Water Works, IN
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.7 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Frankton Water Works
Frankton Water Works serves about 1,800 people through 923 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 Madison County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5248008; phone on file: 765-635-4251. 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 Frankton Water Works is 10.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.7 ppb over 10 |
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. Frankton Water Works's 10.7 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Indiana and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Madison County
11 other systems share Madison County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Frankton Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Water Department | 55,212 | 1.4 ppb |
| Elwood Water & Sewage | 8,586 | 1 ppb |
| Ingalls Water Company | 7,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pendleton Water Company | 5,758 | 3.3 ppb |
| Alexandria Water Department | 5,149 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chesterfield Water Department | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lapel Municipal Water Company | 2,379 | - |
| Edgewood Water Department | 2,053 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indiana American Water - Summitville | 1,078 | - |
| Orestes Water Works | 400 | 3.22 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Frankton, 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 Frankton 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.