Ney Village, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Ney Village at a glance
Ney Village serves about 854 people through 196 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 Defiance County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2000512; phone on file: 419-658-4027. 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 4.5 ppb from 6.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ney Village is 7.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.8 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. Ney Village's 2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Ohio and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Defiance County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ney Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Defiance City | 16,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hicksville Village | 3,600 | 1.6 ppb |
| Ayersville Water And Sewer District | 2,372 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherwood Village | 811 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunersburg Wd - Brunersburg Pws | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Christi Water System Inc | 483 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunersburg Wd - Evansport Pws | 268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunersburg Wd - Airport Pws | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ney, 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 Ney Village 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.