Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg 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
Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws serves about 500 people through 225 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 surface water, in Defiance County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2001103; phone on file: 419-782-7888. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws is 0 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg 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. Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th 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 Defiance County
8 other systems share Defiance County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Defiance City | 16,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hicksville Village | 3,600 | 1.6 ppb |
| Ayersville Water And Sewer District | 2,372 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ney Village | 854 | 2 ppb |
| Sherwood Village | 811 | 0 (not detected) |
| Christi Water System Inc | 483 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunersburg Wd - Evansport Pws | 268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunersburg Wd - Airport Pws | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Defiance, OH
Look up your address in Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg 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 Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.