Holmes County Jail, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Holmes County Jail
Holmes County Jail serves about 180 people through 5 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Holmes County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3800512; phone on file: 330-674-1936. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Holmes County Jail is 0 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Holmes County Jail 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. Holmes County Jail's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Ohio and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Holmes County
10 other systems share Holmes County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Holmes County Jail. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Millersburg Village Pws | 3,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berlin Water Company | 1,896 | 0.9 ppb |
| Winesburg Area Development Corporation | 1,575 | 1.8 ppb |
| Walnut Creek Water Co. | 1,270 | 1.57 ppb |
| Killbuck Village Pws | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bloomfield Water Company | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Castle Nursing Homes, Inc Pws | 428 | 3.85 ppb |
| Glenmont Village Pws | 280 | 1.6 ppb |
| Big Prairie Community Water Company | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashville Village Pws | 197 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Holmesville, OH
Look up your address in Holmes County Jail's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Holmes County Jail 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.