Orwell Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About Orwell Village Pws
Orwell Village Pws serves about 1,660 people through 529 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 Ashtabula County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH0401012; phone on file: 440-437-6459. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Orwell Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (8.27 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orwell Village Pws is 8.27 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 ppb |
| 2024 | 8.27 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.46 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.11 ppb |
How Orwell Village Pws 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. Orwell Village Pws's 8 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Ohio and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Ashtabula County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orwell Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula | 32,342 | 2.01 ppb |
| Ashtabula County Water System | 14,757 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conneaut | 12,538 | 2.2 ppb |
| Andover-Camplands Water | 6,009 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geneva City Pws | 5,924 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Ohio - Village Of Jefferson | 3,226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roaming Shores Village Pws | 1,764 | 0 (not detected) |
| Andover Village Pws | 1,019 | 2.07 ppb |
| Rock Creek Village | 667 | 0.8 ppb |
| Dfc Mobile Home Park | 85 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orwell, 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 Orwell Village Pws 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.