Racine Village Pws, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
Racine Village Pws at a glance
Racine Village Pws serves about 675 people through 395 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 Meigs County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH5300312; phone on file: 740-949-2296. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Racine Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Racine Village Pws is 64 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 64 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. Racine Village Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Ohio and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Meigs County
5 other systems share Meigs County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Racine Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District | 16,087 | 1.3 ppb |
| Leading Creek Conservancy District | 6,663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Middleport Village Pws | 2,446 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pomeroy Village Pws | 1,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Syracuse Village Pws | 826 | 4.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Racine, 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 Racine 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.