Ranch Of Opportunity Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Ranch Of Opportunity Pws at a glance
Ranch Of Opportunity Pws serves about 55 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fayette County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2400912; phone on file: 740-335-3126. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ranch Of Opportunity Pws is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Ohio systems
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. Ranch Of Opportunity Pws's 1.8 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Ohio and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Fayette County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Ranch Of Opportunity Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Washington Court House Pws | 14,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rattlesnake Pws | 7,685 | 2 ppb |
| Jeffersonville Village Pws | 1,356 | 1.4 ppb |
| Village Of Bloomingburg | 878 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fayette Co.-Culpepper Subdivision | 450 | 0.6 ppb |
| Fayette Co-Lakewood Hills Subdivision | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dayton, 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 Ranch Of Opportunity 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.