Pemberville Village Pws, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Pemberville Village Pws at a glance
Pemberville Village Pws serves about 1,326 people through 650 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 Wood County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8701712. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Pemberville Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pemberville Village Pws is 19.9 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 19.9 ppb over 15 |
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. Pemberville Village Pws's 1.2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Ohio and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Wood County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pemberville Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green City | 31,578 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perrysburg City Pws | 27,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Toledo Svc Area | 19,332 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Oregon Wtln 200 | 9,629 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Portage | 4,776 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Weston | 3,648 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Middleton Twp | 3,615 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Baltimore Village | 3,432 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Rapids Village | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bradner Village Pws | 985 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pemberville, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pemberville, 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 Pemberville 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.