Fayetteville Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.
Fayetteville Village Pws at a glance
Fayetteville Village Pws serves about 309 people through 221 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Brown County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH0800411; phone on file: 513-875-3251. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fayetteville Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fayetteville Village Pws is 2.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fayetteville Village Pws 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. Fayetteville Village Pws's 0.8 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Ohio and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Brown County
6 other systems share Brown County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fayetteville Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brown County Rural Water | 32,090 | 0.7 ppb |
| Mount Orab Village Pws | 6,607 | 1.9 ppb |
| Georgetown Village Pws | 4,331 | 0.8 ppb |
| Waynoka Regional Water And Sewer Dist | 1,860 | 1.2 ppb |
| Sardinia Village Pws | 952 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hamersville Village Pws | 925 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fayetteville, 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 Fayetteville Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.