Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
About Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws
Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws serves about 2,746 people through 1,049 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 Licking County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4564712; phone on file: 740-928-7100. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws is 1.4 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws's 1.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Ohio and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Licking County
17 other systems share Licking County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newark City Pws | 49,934 | 1 ppb |
| Licking Regional Water District | 17,818 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Heath Pws | 10,310 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pataskala City | 9,900 | 1.3 ppb |
| Granville, Village Of | 5,946 | 2.4 ppb |
| Johnstown City Pws | 5,200 | 2 ppb |
| Licking County Harbor Hills Pws | 3,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hebron Village Pws | 2,368 | 1.7 ppb |
| Utica Village Pws | 2,235 | 2 ppb |
| Licking County Prescott Estates | 732 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Buckeye Lake, 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 Buckeye Lake, Village Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.