Dover City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Dover City Pws serves about 13,253 people through 5,589 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 Tuscarawas County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7900412; phone on file: 330-343-6726. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Dover City Pws's lead record
That is down 5.07 ppb from 7.07 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dover City Pws is 7.07 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.07 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Dover City 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. Dover City Pws's 2 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Ohio and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Tuscarawas County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dover City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Philadelphia City Pws | 17,410 | 1.36 ppb |
| Twin City Water And Sewer District Pws | 9,224 | 1.89 ppb |
| Tcmsd-Wilkshire Hills Pws | 6,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newcomerstown Village Pws | 3,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strasburg Village Pws | 2,610 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sugarcreek Village Pws | 2,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Ohio - Midvale | 2,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gnadenhutten | 1,240 | 6.67 ppb |
| Tuscarawas Village | 1,056 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bolivar Village Pws | 998 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Dover, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dover, 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 Dover City 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.