Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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 Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws
Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws serves about 40 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7707112; phone on file: 330-650-5578. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws is 10.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
How Pine Mill Ridge 525 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. Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws's 3 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Ohio and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Summit County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Mill Ridge 525 Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Akron City Pws | 280,000 | 2.67 ppb |
| Cuyahoga Falls City Pws | 51,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stow Public Water System | 35,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barberton City | 31,298 | 3.01 ppb |
| Tallmadge City Pws | 18,394 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hudson City Pws | 8,385 | 2.1 ppb |
| Munroe Falls City Pws | 5,042 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakemore Village Pws | 3,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Silver Lake Village Pws | 2,519 | 2.95 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws | 725 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cuyahoga Falls, 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 Pine Mill Ridge 525 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.