Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates, 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.
Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates at a glance
Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates serves about 81 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ashland County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH0301512; phone on file: 330-832-5764. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates is 2.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 - Southwood Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Ohio and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Ashland County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ashland City | 20,648 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loudonville Village | 2,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perrysville Village | 735 | 1.46 ppb |
| Jeromesville Village | 500 | 1.8 ppb |
| Hayesville Village | 448 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bailey Lakes Village | 374 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mohican Young Star Academy | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hidden Acres Mhp | 85 | 1.7 ppb |
| Green Acres Mhp | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Aqua Ohio - Southwood Estates'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 - Southwood Estates 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.