Oak Haven Residential Care, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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.
About Oak Haven Residential Care
Oak Haven Residential Care serves about 46 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6901012; phone on file: 419-890-1442. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Haven Residential Care is 10.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
How Oak Haven Residential Care compares
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. Oak Haven Residential Care's 2.7 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Ohio and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Putnam County
10 other systems share Putnam County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Haven Residential Care. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ottawa Village | 4,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leipsic Village | 2,348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbus Grove Village | 2,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kalida Village Pws | 1,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pandora Village Pws | 1,204 | 0 (not detected) |
| Continental Village Pws | 1,153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glandorf Village | 1,001 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ottoville Village Pws | 976 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rainbow Water | 432 | 2.25 ppb |
| Deer Creek Co-Op | 265 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cloverdale, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cloverdale, 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 Oak Haven Residential Care 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.