Continental Village 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.
Continental Village Pws at a glance
Continental Village Pws serves about 1,153 people through 483 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 Putnam County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6900212. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
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 Continental Village Pws is 0 ppb across 7 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 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Continental Village 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. Continental Village Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Ohio and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Putnam County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Continental Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ottawa Village | 4,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leipsic Village | 2,348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbus Grove Village | 2,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kalida Village Pws | 1,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pandora Village Pws | 1,204 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glandorf Village | 1,001 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ottoville Village Pws | 976 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rainbow Water | 432 | 2.25 ppb |
| Deer Creek Co-Op | 265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Haven Residential Care | 46 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for Delphos, OH
Look up your address in Continental Village 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 Continental 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.