Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws
Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws serves about 725 people through 299 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7704212; phone on file: 440-255-3984. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws is 2.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills 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. Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws's 2.1 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Ohio and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Summit County
28 other systems share Summit County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Akron City Pws | 280,000 | 2.67 ppb |
| 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 |
| Towbridge Development | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mentor, 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 Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills 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.