Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws serves about 84 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 Wayne County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8505012; phone on file: 330-641-8752. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws is 3.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Ohio systems
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. Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws's 1.4 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Ohio and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Wayne County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wooster City Pws | 26,618 | 2.1 ppb |
| Orrville City Pws | 8,452 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rittman City Pws | 6,491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doylestown Village Pws | 3,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creston Village | 2,171 | 3.34 ppb |
| Dalton Village Pws | 2,000 | 2.08 ppb |
| Shreve Village Pws | 1,514 | 2.31 ppb |
| West Salem Village Pws | 1,410 | 2.4 ppb |
| Smithville Village Pws | 1,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Apple Creek Village Pws | 1,190 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Wooster, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wooster, 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 Country Pointe Wooster Sub-Acute 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.