Josiah Whites (Penguins), IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Josiah Whites (Penguins) serves about 25 people through 5 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: IN5285008; 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
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Josiah Whites (Penguins) is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How Josiah Whites (Penguins) 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. Josiah Whites (Penguins)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Indiana and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Wabash County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Josiah Whites (Penguins). 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 |
| Josiah Whites | 416 | 1.8 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) |
Your move
Look up your address in Josiah Whites (Penguins)'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 Josiah Whites (Penguins) 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.