Put-In-Bay Village, OH
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.9 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Put-In-Bay Village at a glance
Put-In-Bay Village serves about 5,000 people through 353 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Ottawa County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6203311; phone on file: 419-285-8545. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (11.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Put-In-Bay Village is 11.6 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (5 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 11.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 11.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.7 ppb |
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. Put-In-Bay Village's 10.9 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Ohio and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Ottawa County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Put-In-Bay Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ottawa County Regional Water District | 20,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Clinton City | 6,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Harbor Village | 4,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Genoa Village | 3,110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carroll Water And Sewer | 2,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elmore Village | 1,421 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marblehead Village | 865 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Country | 130 | 1.89 ppb |
| Green Valley Mobile Home Park | 82 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenwood Mobile Home Park | 77 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Put-In-Bay, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Put-In-Bay, 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 Put-In-Bay Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.