Josiah Whites, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Josiah Whites at a glance
Josiah Whites serves about 416 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wabash County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5285020; phone on file: 260-563-1158. 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 Josiah Whites is 1.8 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Josiah Whites's 1.8 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Indiana and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Wabash County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Josiah Whites. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana American Water - Wabash | 12,140 | 38 ppb |
| North Manchester Water Department | 6,100 | 1.64 ppb |
| Lafontaine Water Company | 906 | 4 ppb |
| Lagro Municipal Water Department | 438 | 0.25 ppb |
| Roann Water Works | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indiana American Water - Somerset | 245 | 1 ppb |
| Lake View Mobile Home Park | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prossers Country Estates | 85 | 3.57 ppb |
| Carriage House Estates | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salamonie Country Estates | 30 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wabash, 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 Josiah Whites 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.