Hagerstown Municipal Water Works, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Hagerstown Municipal Water Works at a glance
Hagerstown Municipal Water Works serves about 1,700 people through 930 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 Wayne County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5289008; phone on file: 765-489-6171. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.8 ppb from 8.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hagerstown Municipal Water Works is 8.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.72 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. Hagerstown Municipal Water Works's 6.5 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Indiana and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Wayne County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hagerstown Municipal Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Richmond | 41,485 | 4 ppb |
| Centerville Water Works | 2,533 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cambridge City Municipal Water Works | 1,900 | 3.2 ppb |
| Dublin Municipal Water Works | 790 | 3.2 ppb |
| Fountain City Water Works | 735 | 1.4 ppb |
| Milton Water Works | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richmond Mobile Home Park | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Len-Del Mobile Home Court | 100 | 0.7 ppb |
| Woodview Mobile Home Park | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Retreat Mhc, Llc | 35 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hagerstown, 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 Hagerstown Municipal 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.