Cardinal-New Paris Health, 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.
About Cardinal-New Paris Health
Cardinal-New Paris Health serves about 96 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Preble County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6800212; phone on file: 765-993-4999. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cardinal-New Paris Health is 0.4 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) |
| 2022 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.26 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Cardinal-New Paris Health 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. Cardinal-New Paris Health's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Ohio and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Preble County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cardinal-New Paris Health. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eaton Public Water System | 8,400 | 6.7 ppb |
| Lakengren Water Authority | 2,950 | 2.4 ppb |
| Camden, Village Of | 2,050 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lewisburg Village Pws | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Paris Village Pws | 1,681 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Alexandria, Village Of | 1,385 | 3.8 ppb |
| Gratis Village Pws | 990 | 1.5 ppb |
| Eldorado, Village Of | 539 | 2 ppb |
| Verona, Village Of | 492 | 1 ppb |
| West Manchester, Village Of | 471 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for New Paris, OH
Look up your address in Cardinal-New Paris Health'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 Cardinal-New Paris Health 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.