City Of Heath Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
City Of Heath Pws serves about 10,310 people through 4,514 service connections, which makes it a large 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: OH4500912; phone on file: 740-522-1677. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Heath Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Heath Pws is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. City Of Heath Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Ohio and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Licking County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Heath 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) |
| 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) |
| Buckeye Lake, Village Of Pws | 2,746 | 1.4 ppb |
| Hebron Village Pws | 2,368 | 1.7 ppb |
| Utica Village Pws | 2,235 | 2 ppb |
| Licking County Prescott Estates | 732 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Heath 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 City Of Heath 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.