Fort Loramie Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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.
About Fort Loramie Village Pws
Fort Loramie Village Pws serves about 1,524 people through 682 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 Shelby County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7500312. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Loramie Village Pws is 11.36 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 11.36 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 5.77 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.68 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. Fort Loramie Village Pws's 3.1 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Ohio and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Shelby County
16 other systems share Shelby County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Loramie Village Pws. 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 |
| 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 |
| Fair Haven Shelby County Home | 290 | 1.6 ppb |
| The Way International | 248 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kettlersville Well Association Pws | 200 | 1.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Loramie, 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 Fort Loramie 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.