Eldorado, Village Of, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Eldorado, Village Of at a glance
Eldorado, Village Of serves about 539 people through 260 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Preble County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6800512; phone on file: 937-273-5695. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eldorado, Village Of is 5.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Eldorado, Village Of's 2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Ohio and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Preble County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eldorado, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eaton Public Water System | 8,400 | 6.7 ppb |
| Lakengren Water Authority | 2,950 | 2.4 ppb |
| Camden, Village Of | 2,050 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lewisburg Village Pws | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Paris Village Pws | 1,681 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Alexandria, Village Of | 1,385 | 3.8 ppb |
| Gratis Village Pws | 990 | 1.5 ppb |
| Verona, Village Of | 492 | 1 ppb |
| West Manchester, Village Of | 471 | 1.4 ppb |
| College Corner Water | 387 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eldorado, 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 Eldorado, Village Of 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.