Deer Run Mc, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Deer Run Mc
Deer Run Mc serves about 106 people through 75 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Columbiana County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH1500112; phone on file: 330-577-7143. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Deer Run Mc's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deer Run Mc is 2.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
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. Deer Run Mc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Ohio and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Columbiana County
16 other systems share Columbiana County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deer Run Mc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salem City | 16,850 | 9.4 ppb |
| East Liverpool City | 12,586 | 0.31 ppb |
| Buckeye Water District - Ohio River | 10,300 | 5 ppb |
| Columbiana City Pws | 6,727 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Palestine Village Pws | 4,761 | 4.17 ppb |
| Lisbon Village | 2,821 | 11.1 ppb |
| Leetonia Village Pws | 1,833 | 2.85 ppb |
| New Waterford Village Pws | 1,238 | 2.15 ppb |
| Washingtonville Village Pws | 801 | 2.96 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Deer Run Mc'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 Deer Run Mc 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.