Fair Haven Shelby County Home, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Fair Haven Shelby County Home serves about 290 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Shelby County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7501112; phone on file: 419-628-3411. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fair Haven Shelby County Home is 44 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 44 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 9.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 8.37 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. Fair Haven Shelby County Home's 1.6 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Ohio and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Shelby County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fair Haven Shelby County Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sidney City Pws | 20,614 | 0.9 ppb |
| Anna Village Pws | 1,558 | 6.7 ppb |
| Fort Loramie Village Pws | 1,524 | 3.1 ppb |
| Jackson Center Village Pws | 1,462 | 0.8 ppb |
| Botkins Village Pws | 1,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Russia Village Pws | 640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ohio Living Dorothy Love Pws | 471 | 1 ppb |
| Shelby County Water And Sewer Pws | 375 | 4.6 ppb |
| The Way International | 248 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kettlersville Well Association Pws | 200 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Minster, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Minster, 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 Fair Haven Shelby County Home 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.