Belle Center Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Belle Center Village Pws serves about 834 people through 380 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Logan County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4600012; phone on file: 937-407-3033. 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 2025 (1.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Belle Center Village Pws is 10.7 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 9.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 10.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Belle Center Village 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. Belle Center Village Pws's 1.9 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Ohio and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Logan County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Belle Center Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bellefontaine City Pws | 13,249 | 4.2 ppb |
| West Liberty Village Pws | 1,800 | 2.1 ppb |
| Russells Point Village Pws | 1,651 | 0.8 ppb |
| Degraff Village Pws | 1,225 | 1 ppb |
| Lakeview Village Pws | 1,083 | 0.9 ppb |
| West Mansfield Village Pws | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Quincy Village Pws | 600 | 2 ppb |
| Rushsylvania Village Pws | 551 | 0.7 ppb |
| Tammis Mobile Village Ltd. Pws | 98 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holiday Shores Mhp Pws | 67 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Belle Center, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belle Center, 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 Belle Center Village 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.