Aurora Estates, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Aurora Estates serves about 500 people through 235 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Portage County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6703312; phone on file: 419-892-4800. 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 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aurora Estates is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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 Estates's 2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Ohio and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Portage County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aurora Estates. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Columbus, 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 Aurora 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.