Ponderosa Estates 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.
Ponderosa Estates Pws at a glance
Ponderosa Estates Pws serves about 35 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hocking County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3700312; phone on file: 614-330-2110. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ponderosa Estates Pws's lead record
That is up 7.3 ppb from 0.7 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ponderosa Estates Pws is 8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Ponderosa Estates Pws's 8 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Ohio and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Hocking County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ponderosa Estates Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Logan, City Of | 6,704 | 1.5 ppb |
| Carbon Hill Water Association | 910 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laurelville, Vlg Of | 586 | 0.5 ppb |
| Murray City Village Pws | 449 | 3.2 ppb |
| Old Straitsville-Rockbridge | 361 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scenic Hills Estates | 32 | 6.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Logan, 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 Ponderosa Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.