Morgan Meigsville - West Malta Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.61 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Morgan Meigsville - West Malta Pws serves about 520 people through 276 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: OH5801103; phone on file: 740-962-6395. 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 1.48 ppb from 3.09 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Morgan Meigsville - West Malta Pws is 3.09 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.61 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.09 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.12 ppb |
| 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. Morgan Meigsville - West Malta Pws's 1.61 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Ohio and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Morgan County
7 other systems share Morgan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Morgan Meigsville - West Malta 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 |
| Malta Village Pws | 671 | 3.8 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mcconnelsville, 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 Morgan Meigsville - West Malta 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.