Lakewood City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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 Lakewood City Pws
Lakewood City Pws serves about 50,942 people through 14,153 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 Cuyahoga County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH1801003; phone on file: 216-529-6803. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (1.68 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakewood City Pws is 4.05 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.68 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.57 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.05 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.21 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.03 ppb |
How Lakewood City 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. Lakewood City Pws's 1.2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Ohio and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cuyahoga County
6 other systems share Cuyahoga County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakewood City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Public Water System | 1,308,955 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berea City Pws | 18,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bedford City Pws | 13,149 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chagrin Falls Village Pws | 4,991 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbia Park Water System | 2,716 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greentree Water Company | 56 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lakewood, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lakewood, 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 Lakewood 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.