Akron City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.67 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. 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.
Akron City Pws at a glance
Akron City Pws serves about 280,000 people through 94,791 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Summit County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7700011; phone on file: 330-678-0077. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.83 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Akron City Pws is 4.08 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.67 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.83 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.03 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.67 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.08 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.45 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.32 ppb |
How Akron City Pws compares
Of the 1,079 Ohio systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.7 ppb; 1 are over 15 ppb right now and 27 have gone over at some point. Akron City Pws's 2.67 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Ohio and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Summit County
28 other systems share Summit County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Akron City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cuyahoga Falls City Pws | 51,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stow Public Water System | 35,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barberton City | 31,298 | 3.01 ppb |
| Tallmadge City Pws | 18,394 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hudson City Pws | 8,385 | 2.1 ppb |
| Munroe Falls City Pws | 5,042 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakemore Village Pws | 3,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Silver Lake Village Pws | 2,519 | 2.95 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws | 725 | 2.1 ppb |
| Towbridge Development | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Kent, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kent, OH 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 Akron City Pws 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.