North Fairfield Village, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
North Fairfield Village serves about 534 people through 176 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 Huron County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3901012; phone on file: 419-541-7539. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
North Fairfield Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Fairfield Village is 2.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. North Fairfield Village's 2.3 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Ohio and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Huron County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than North Fairfield Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Ohio Rural Water | 18,224 | 4 ppb |
| Norwalk City Pws | 17,466 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bellevue City | 8,236 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willard City | 7,099 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Ohio Rural Water-South District | 5,226 | 0 (not detected) |
| New London Village Pws | 3,226 | 0.5 ppb |
| Greenwich Village Pws | 1,476 | 2.1 ppb |
| Monroeville Village | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wakeman Village Pws | 1,047 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Ohio Rural Water - Camp Road | 758 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; North Fairfield, 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 North Fairfield 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.