Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws serves about 480 people through 204 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allen County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH0200712; phone on file: 513-202-3272. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws is 1.2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Brightstar Lima Mhp 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. Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Ohio and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Allen County
7 other systems share Allen County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lima City | 65,619 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delphos City | 7,101 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elida Village | 4,109 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bluffton Village | 4,082 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spencerville Village | 2,261 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sun Valley Family Campground | 462 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaverdam Village Pws | 319 | 1.8 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Brightstar Lima Mhp Pws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Brightstar Lima Mhp 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.