Lorain City Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Lorain City Pws serves about 64,152 people through 26,519 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 Lorain County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4700711; phone on file: 440-204-2280. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lorain City Pws is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Ohio systems
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. Lorain City Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 44th percentile in Ohio and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Lorain County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lorain City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rural Lorain Co. Water A | 73,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elyria Water Department | 68,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Ridgeville City Pws | 37,786 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon City Pws | 24,060 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon Lake City Pws | 23,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Amherst City Pws | 11,797 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sheffield Lake City Pws | 9,108 | 1.9 ppb |
| Oberlin Water Department | 8,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wellington Village Pws | 4,802 | 2.4 ppb |
| Sheffield Village Pws | 4,165 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lorain, OH
Look up your address in Lorain City Pws'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 Lorain 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.