Malta Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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 Malta Village Pws
Malta Village Pws serves about 671 people through 315 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 Morgan County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH5800412; phone on file: 740-962-6118. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.4 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Malta Village Pws is 11 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Malta Village Pws's 3.8 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Ohio and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Morgan County
7 other systems share Morgan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Malta Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcconnelsville Village | 1,780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chesterhill Village Pws | 823 | 3.3 ppb |
| Morgan Meigsville Rural | 700 | 2.64 ppb |
| Morgan Meigsville - West Malta Pws | 520 | 1.61 ppb |
| Stockport Village Pws | 503 | 4.71 ppb |
| Woodland Hills Estates Ii | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morgan Meigsville - Sr 376 Pws | 68 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Malta, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Malta, 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 Malta 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.