Martinsburg Village Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Martinsburg Village Pws
Martinsburg Village Pws serves about 240 people through 110 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Knox County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4202312; phone on file: 740-641-8833. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Martinsburg Village Pws is 2.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
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. Martinsburg Village Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Ohio and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Knox County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Martinsburg Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon City Pws | 16,990 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knox County Water And Wastewater Pws | 8,250 | 2.09 ppb |
| Fredericktown Village | 2,648 | 1.8 ppb |
| Gambier Village Pws | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Danville Village Pws | 994 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colonial Terrace Mhc Llc | 110 | 0.3 ppb |
| Grandview Mhp A Pws | 74 | 1 ppb |
| Grandview Mhp B | 47 | 0.7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Martinsburg Village 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 Martinsburg 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.