Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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
Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws serves about 1,229 people through 439 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pike County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6600312; phone on file: 614-882-6586. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws is 14 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 10 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
Against other Ohio systems
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. Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Ohio and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Pike County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws | 15,487 | 0.6 ppb |
| Waverly City Pws | 4,433 | 0 (not detected) |
| Piketon Village Pws | 2,181 | 0.9 ppb |
| Pike Water, Inc.-Ross 2 Pws | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaver Pws | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pike Water, Inc.-Ross 3 Pws | 91 | 0.4 ppb |
| Dawsons Mobile Home Park Pws | 51 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws'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 Aqua Ohio - Lake White 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.