Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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
Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute serves about 1,461 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Fairfield County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2301412; phone on file: 740-653-4324. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute is 2.7 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute's 0.5 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Ohio and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Fairfield County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lancaster City Pws | 40,400 | 0.8 ppb |
| Pickerington City Pws | 19,141 | 0.6 ppb |
| Fairfield County Utilities Pws | 19,113 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersport Village Pws | 3,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Baltimore Village Pws | 2,995 | 2.1 ppb |
| Canal Pointe Industrial Park Pws | 1,721 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lithopolis Village Pws | 1,573 | 3.1 ppb |
| Little Walnut Water Treatment Facility | 1,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bremen Village | 1,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasantville Village Pws | 960 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lancaster, 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 Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.