Short answer: No measured result is above a legal limit; the water is hard. Fort Wayne - 3 RIVERS Filtration Plant serves 269,994 residents.
EPA lists this system for the city. Your water bill or annual water quality report names your actual supplier.
Source: EPA SDWIS 2026Q2.
FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT (EPA PWSID IN5202020) delivers surface water to 269,994 residents. This report reflects 29 individual PFAS result(s) from the source UCMR5 observations and the latest Lead & Copper Rule 90th-percentile result. The utility's 2025 CCR reports hard water and chlorine disinfection.
1health-based violation in the last 10 years
From EPA SDWIS. Counted once per contaminant per year, as in the Track record score.
Every filing is listed; the Track record score counts at most one per contaminant per year.
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Plumbing inside a home can add lead that the system record can't show. A tap test tells you what reaches your glass.
lead 2.62 µg/L, below the 15 µg/L action level (detected below the limit); 11,299 lead service lines; 475 galvanized lines to replace (context, not a tap measurement)
PFHxA 4.1 ng/L, below the 400000 ng/L state limit (+1 more PFAS detected)
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Screening: quick check, not lab-grade
Varify
17 strip readings, including lead, chlorine, fluoride, iron and hardness, plus 2 coliform bacteria tests
What it can't tell you: Strip colors give rough ranges, not lab numbers, and it cannot detect PFAS or arsenic.
Lab-certified results
ETR Laboratories
50+ substances, including lead, copper, arsenic, nitrate, hardness and coliform bacteria
What it can't tell you: It does not test PFAS, and not every result on the panel falls under the lab's accredited scope.
Each card names which Fort Wayne findings its current certification covers, and which it doesn't.
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PurityMap does not give a safe/unsafe verdict; it shows what the public records measured. For Fort Wayne, PFAS were detected below their limits, and PFPeA 8 ng/L with no federal or state limit; the lead 90th-percentile result was 2.62 µg/L against the 15 µg/L action level. FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT (PWSID IN5202020) has a Purity Score of 93/100 (confidence: high), assessed at the water-system level and computed only from contaminants that were measured. Water can change in your own pipes, so a certified test is the only way to know what comes out of your tap.
FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT (PWS ID IN5202020) is the public water system on record for Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving about 269,994 people. Confirm the utility on your water bill before acting on a specific finding.
Surface water (primary source of record in EPA SDWIS).
In EPA's UCMR 5 testing (2023-06-07 to 2024-03-12), PFHxA was detected at 4.1 ng/L, below the 400,000 ng/L state limit. PFPeA (8 ng/L) was also detected; it has no federal or state limit.
FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT's most recent lead 90th-percentile result (2026) was 2.62 µg/L, below the 15 µg/L action level. That figure comes from sampled homes; lead usually enters from a building's own pipes and fixtures, so only a test at your tap tells you what you drink.
PurityMap's current record for Fort Wayne holds 37 findings: 1 above a reference, 7 detected within the reference, 1 detected with no limit and 28 not detected. Each finding links to its dated public record; a parameter that was never monitored is shown as pending, not as a pass.
Fort Wayne's water is recorded as 7.6 gpg, hard. Hardness is an aesthetic and plumbing characteristic, not a health-based limit.
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Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA)
Perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA)
11-Chloroeicosafluoro-3-oxaundecane-1-sulfonic acid (11Cl-PF3OUdS)
1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecane sulfonic acid (8:2 FTS)
1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (4:2 FTS)
1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (6:2 FTS)
4,8-Dioxa-3H-perfluorononanoic acid (ADONA)
9-Chlorohexadecafluoro-3-oxanone-1-sulfonic acid (9Cl-PF3ONS)
Hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA) (GenX chemicals)
N-ethyl perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic acid (NEtFOSAA)
N-methyl perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic acid (NMeFOSAA)
Nonafluoro-3,6-dioxaheptanoic acid (NFDHA)
Perfluoro (2-ethoxyethane) sulfonic acid (PFEESA)
Perfluoro-3-methoxypropanoic acid (PFMPA)
Perfluoro-4-methoxybutanoic acid (PFMBA)
Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid (PFBS)
Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA)
Perfluoroheptanesulfonic acid (PFHpS)
Perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA)
Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS)
Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)
Perfluoropentanesulfonic acid (PFPeS)
Perfluorotetradecanoic acid (PFTA)
Perfluorotridecanoic acid (PFTrDA)
Perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnA)
Every value is the published result from the cited public record. A reporting limit is the lowest level the method could reliably quantify; a non-detect is not a guarantee of zero.
UCMR5 Analytical Results
UCMR5 Analytical Results: FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT (IN5202020)
US EPA
State SDWIS Compliance Record
Lead & Copper Rule 90th-percentile: FORT WAYNE - 3 RIVERS FILTRATION PLANT (IN5202020)
US EPA SDWIS
Consumer Confidence Report (CCR)
Fort Wayne City Utilities 2025 Consumer Confidence Report (CCR)
Fort Wayne City Utilities
Methodology: how we analyze water. Prepared with AI assistance and reviewed by the PurityMap Editorial Team before publication.
Start with the hot-or-cold tap check. Where Fort Wayne - 3 RIVERS Filtration Plant reported something related, it's shown below.
Fort Wayne disinfects with chlorine (utility water-quality report).
Lead at Fort Wayne - 3 RIVERS Filtration Plant: 2.62 µg/L (90th percentile, 2026 monitoring period (still open)). Lead has no taste, so a taste neither shows nor rules it out.
Copper: 0.055 mg/L (utility water-quality report, 2025). The federal action level is 1.3 mg/L.