Oakwood Mobile Home Park, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Oakwood Mobile Home Park at a glance
Oakwood Mobile Home Park serves about 45 people through 17 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: IN5245034; phone on file: 219-696-0455. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 24.5 ppb from 25.2 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oakwood Mobile Home Park is 25.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 25.2 ppb over 15 |
How Oakwood Mobile Home Park 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. Oakwood Mobile Home Park's 0.7 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Indiana and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Lake County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oakwood Mobile Home Park. 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
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar Lake, 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 Oakwood Mobile Home Park 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.