Bethel Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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.
Bethel Village Pws at a glance
Bethel Village Pws serves about 2,620 people through 1,338 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 Clermont County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH1300116; phone on file: 513-734-2243. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel Village Pws is 7.1 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 7.1 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. Bethel Village Pws's 3.6 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Ohio and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Clermont County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bethel Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clermont Public Water System | 133,059 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tate-Monroe Water Association Pws | 24,092 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loveland City Pws | 12,800 | 4.21 ppb |
| Milford City Pws | 6,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Richmond Village Pws | 2,698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Williamsburg Village Pws | 2,490 | 2.6 ppb |
| Felicity Village Pws | 1,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Robin Grays Pws | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bethel, 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 Bethel 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.