Carey Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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.
Carey Village Pws at a glance
Carey Village Pws serves about 3,674 people through 1,535 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wyandot County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8800012; phone on file: 419-396-7681. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Carey Village Pws's lead record
That is down 6.9 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carey Village Pws is 10 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 10 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.6 ppb |
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. Carey Village Pws's 3.1 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Ohio and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Wyandot County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carey Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Upper Sandusky City | 6,698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sycamore Village Pws | 862 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Village Pws | 814 | 1.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carey, 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 Carey 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. 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.