Dresden Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Dresden Pws at a glance
Dresden Pws serves about 2,000 people through 950 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Muskingum County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6000212; phone on file: 740-754-2569. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Dresden Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dresden Pws is 0 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Dresden Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Ohio and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Muskingum County
10 other systems share Muskingum County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dresden Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Zanesville Pws | 29,381 | 0.9 ppb |
| Muskingum County Water - Se | 21,540 | 1 ppb |
| Maysville Regional Water | 6,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Zanesville Pws | 2,800 | 0.4 ppb |
| New Concord Pws | 2,491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roseville Pws | 1,852 | 2.5 ppb |
| Frazeysburg Pws | 1,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Philo | 974 | 1 ppb |
| Greenlawn Estates Mhp | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dunfalls Association, Inc. | 266 | 2.8 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Dresden 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 Dresden 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.