Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws, 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 Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws
Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws serves about 83,033 people through 32,220 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 Montgomery County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH5701503; phone on file: 937-781-2662. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws is 4.54 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 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4.54 ppb |
How Montgomery County Water Services 2 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. Montgomery County Water Services 2 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
21 other systems share Montgomery County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montgomery County Water Services 2 Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Water Services 1 Pws | 150,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dayton Public Water System | 141,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Huber Heights Public Water System | 43,439 | 0 (not detected) |
| Miamisburg City Pws | 19,790 | 1.4 ppb |
| Englewood City Pws | 13,463 | 2.3 ppb |
| Oakwood City Pws | 9,572 | 3.6 ppb |
| Trotwood City Pws | 9,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Carrollton City Pws | 8,361 | 0.4 ppb |
| Union City Pws | 7,000 | 3.5 ppb |
| Brookville Municipality Pws | 5,923 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Montgomery County Water Services 2 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 Montgomery County Water Services 2 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.