Northtowne Communities Llc, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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
Northtowne Communities Llc serves about 100 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Darke County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH1901012; phone on file: 937-974-1553. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Northtowne Communities Llc's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northtowne Communities Llc is 9.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Northtowne Communities Llc's 0.8 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Ohio and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Darke County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northtowne Communities Llc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville City Pws | 13,227 | 0 (not detected) |
| Versailles Village Pws | 2,687 | 0.7 ppb |
| Arcanum Village Pws | 2,100 | 1.8 ppb |
| Bradford Village Pws | 2,000 | 4.6 ppb |
| Ansonia Village Pws | 1,174 | 0.9 ppb |
| New Madison Village Pws | 892 | 1.4 ppb |
| Gettysburg Village Pws | 513 | 0.6 ppb |
| A And R Union City Park Mhp Pws | 85 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Versailles, 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 Northtowne Communities Llc 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.