Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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 Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws
Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws serves about 15,487 people through 7,601 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pike County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6602412; phone on file: 740-947-2524. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws is 5.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pike Water, Inc.-Plant 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. Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws's 0.6 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Ohio and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Pike County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pike Water, Inc.-Plant Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waverly City Pws | 4,433 | 0 (not detected) |
| Piketon Village Pws | 2,181 | 0.9 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Lake White Pws | 1,229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pike Water, Inc.-Ross 2 Pws | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaver Pws | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pike Water, Inc.-Ross 3 Pws | 91 | 0.4 ppb |
| Dawsons Mobile Home Park Pws | 51 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Waverly, 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 Pike Water, Inc.-Plant 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.