Gnadenhutten, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.67 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.
Who runs the water here
Gnadenhutten serves about 1,240 people through 599 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 Tuscarawas County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7900512; phone on file: 740-254-4307. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.67 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gnadenhutten is 6.67 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.67 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Gnadenhutten's 6.67 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Ohio and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Tuscarawas County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Gnadenhutten. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Philadelphia City Pws | 17,410 | 1.36 ppb |
| Dover City Pws | 13,253 | 2 ppb |
| Twin City Water And Sewer District Pws | 9,224 | 1.89 ppb |
| Tcmsd-Wilkshire Hills Pws | 6,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newcomerstown Village Pws | 3,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strasburg Village Pws | 2,610 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sugarcreek Village Pws | 2,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Ohio - Midvale | 2,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tuscarawas Village | 1,056 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bolivar Village Pws | 998 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gnadenhutten, 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 Gnadenhutten 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.