Painted Hills Utility Company, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Painted Hills Utility Company at a glance
Painted Hills Utility Company serves about 1,560 people through 650 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5255012; phone on file: 765-342-5496. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Painted Hills Utility Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (4.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Painted Hills Utility Company is 5.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.8 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. Painted Hills Utility Company's 4.8 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Indiana and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Morgan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Painted Hills Utility Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Martinsville Water Utility | 15,000 | 1.92 ppb |
| Indiana American Water - Mooresville | 10,083 | 1 ppb |
| Morgan County Rural Water Company | 8,800 | 2.6 ppb |
| Hill Water Corporation | 8,200 | 1.67 ppb |
| Citizens Water - Morgan | 5,705 | 1 ppb |
| Tri-County Conservancy District | 3,078 | 0.32 ppb |
| Mapleturn Utilities, Inc. | 1,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brooklyn Water Works | 1,600 | 0.73 ppb |
| Morgantown Water Utility | 1,000 | 2.03 ppb |
| Mooresville Acres | 752 | 14.7 ppb |
Next steps for Martinsville, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Martinsville, 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 Painted Hills Utility Company 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.