Echo Lake Community Association, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Echo Lake Community Association at a glance
Echo Lake Community Association serves about 58 people through 29 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Medina County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH5200212; phone on file: 216-288-8196. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Echo Lake Community Association is 13 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Echo Lake Community Association 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. Echo Lake Community Association's 1.9 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Ohio and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Medina County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Echo Lake Community Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Medina Co/Northwest Pws | 46,324 | 0.6 ppb |
| Medina City Pws | 25,956 | 3 ppb |
| Wadsworth City Pws | 24,356 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medina Co/Southern Water Dist Pws | 4,708 | 0.9 ppb |
| Lodi Village Pws | 2,884 | 1.7 ppb |
| Seville Village Pws | 2,296 | 3.2 ppb |
| Spencer, Village Of | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medina Co/Sharon-Wadsworth Pws | 566 | 1.5 ppb |
| Granger Lake Condo 1 Pws | 131 | 0 (not detected) |
| Granger Lake Condo 4 Pws | 108 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hinckley, 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 Echo Lake Community Association 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.