Remington Water Works, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.95 ppb (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 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.
About Remington Water Works
Remington Water Works serves about 1,182 people through 649 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 Jasper County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5237004; phone on file: 219-261-2523. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Remington Water Works's lead record
That is down 1.5 ppb from 3.45 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Remington Water Works is 24 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.95 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.45 ppb |
| 2022 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 23.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Remington Water Works's 1.95 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Indiana and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Jasper County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Remington Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rensselaer Water Department | 6,200 | 12.1 ppb |
| Northwest Jasper Regional Water District | 4,054 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cuii - Water Service Co. | 654 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lakeside Management | 63 | 0.36 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Remington, 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 Remington 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.