Bellefontaine City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 ppb (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. 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
Bellefontaine City Pws serves about 13,249 people through 6,252 service connections, which makes it a large 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: OH4600112; phone on file: 937-593-6121. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bellefontaine City Pws's lead record
That is up 1.2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bellefontaine City Pws is 6.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 5.9 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. Bellefontaine City Pws's 4.2 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Ohio and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Logan County
11 other systems share Logan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bellefontaine City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Belle Center Village Pws | 834 | 1.9 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bellefontaine, 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 Bellefontaine City 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.