Findlay City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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.
About Findlay City Pws
Findlay City Pws serves about 54,040 people through 20,246 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 Hancock County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3200111; phone on file: 419-424-7137. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Findlay City Pws is 3.4 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
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. Findlay City Pws's 2.4 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Ohio and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Hancock County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Findlay City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Northwestern W And Sd - Mccomb | 1,527 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arlington Village Pws | 1,474 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rawson Village Pws | 571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arcadia Village Pws | 564 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Blanchard Village | 488 | 5 ppb |
| Vanlue Village Pws | 340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Meadow Mhp-Hancock Co | 30 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Findlay, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Findlay, 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 Findlay City 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. 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.