Paragon Water Works, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Paragon Water Works serves about 650 people through 350 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 Morgan County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5255013; phone on file: 765-537-2513. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Paragon Water Works's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paragon Water Works is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Paragon Water Works 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. Paragon Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Indiana and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Morgan County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paragon Water Works. 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 |
| Painted Hills Utility Company | 1,560 | 4.8 ppb |
| Morgantown Water Utility | 1,000 | 2.03 ppb |
Next steps for Paragon, IN
Look up your address in Paragon Water Works'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 Paragon 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. 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.