Bowersville Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Bowersville Village Pws serves about 360 people through 160 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 Greene County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2900212; phone on file: 937-675-2437. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowersville Village Pws is 1.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Bowersville Village Pws's 1.9 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Ohio and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Greene County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowersville Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greene Co.-Northwest Reg Water | 41,895 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairborn Public Water System | 34,620 | 3.1 ppb |
| Xenia City Pws | 29,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Wright-Patterson Afb Area A Pws | 16,551 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wright-Patterson Afb Area B Pws | 11,034 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bellbrook Water Works | 9,475 | 4.3 ppb |
| Wright State University | 8,948 | 3.1 ppb |
| Greene County Eastern Regional Pws | 4,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarville University | 4,000 | 3.4 ppb |
| Yellow Springs Village Pws | 3,761 | 4.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bowersville, 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 Bowersville 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.