Aurora City - Portage 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.
Aurora City - Portage Pws at a glance
Aurora City - Portage Pws serves about 191 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Portage County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6700003; phone on file: 330-562-8662. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aurora City - Portage Pws is 2 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Aurora City - Portage Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Ohio and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Portage County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aurora City - Portage Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kent City Pws | 29,662 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ravenna City Pws | 16,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Aurora City - Cleveland Pws | 15,852 | 0 (not detected) |
| Streetsboro City Pws | 15,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portage County Water Resources | 8,606 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garrettsville Village Pws | 2,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windham Village Pws | 1,777 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Ohio - Beechcrest | 1,496 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hiram Village Pws | 1,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portage County Wr - Mantua Village Pws | 1,207 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Aurora City - Portage 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 Aurora City - Portage 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.