East Liverpool City, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.31 ppb (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. 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
East Liverpool City serves about 12,586 people through 5,550 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 surface water, in Columbiana County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH1500811; phone on file: 330-385-8812. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.53 ppb from 1.84 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Liverpool City is 7.5 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.84 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.46 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 7.5 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. East Liverpool City's 0.31 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Ohio and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Columbiana County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Liverpool City. 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 |
| 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) |
| Columbiana County-County Home Rd Pws | 200 | 1.43 ppb |
Next steps for East Liverpool, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Liverpool, 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 East Liverpool City 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.