Rawson Village Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Rawson Village Pws at a glance
Rawson Village Pws serves about 571 people through 225 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 Hancock County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3200612. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rawson Village Pws is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Rawson Village Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Ohio and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Hancock County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rawson Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Findlay City Pws | 54,040 | 2.4 ppb |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Mccomb | 1,527 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arlington Village Pws | 1,474 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arcadia Village Pws | 564 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Blanchard Village | 488 | 5 ppb |
| Vanlue Village Pws | 340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Meadow Mhp-Hancock Co | 30 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rawson, OH
Look up your address in Rawson Village Pws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Rawson 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.