Mount Sterling Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Mount Sterling Village Pws at a glance
Mount Sterling Village Pws serves about 2,059 people through 829 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 Madison County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4900812; phone on file: 740-869-2040. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mount Sterling Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mount Sterling Village Pws is 5.7 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Mount Sterling Village Pws's 1.3 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Ohio and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Madison County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mount Sterling Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-Ohio Wsd - Chrisman Avenue Wtp | 10,256 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mid-Ohio Wsd - Old Springfield Road Wtp | 5,176 | 1.5 ppb |
| West Jefferson Village Pws | 4,488 | 1.1 ppb |
| Mid-Ohio Wsd - Jackson Street Wtp | 4,467 | 5.3 ppb |
| Choctaw Utilities, Inc. | 2,200 | 0.9 ppb |
| Green Meadows Mobile Home Park | 730 | 2.2 ppb |
| Jefferson Lodge Mobile Home | 400 | 1.2 ppb |
| South Solon Village Pws | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rosedale Bible Institute | 175 | 7.6 ppb |
| Spring Valley Mhp | 96 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Sterling, 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 Mount Sterling 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.