Scenic Hills Estates, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.3 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.
About Scenic Hills Estates
Scenic Hills Estates serves about 32 people through 26 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: OH3700912; phone on file: 740-603-1681. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Scenic Hills Estates's lead record
That is up 5.5 ppb from 0.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scenic Hills Estates is 6.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Scenic Hills Estates's 6.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Ohio and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Hocking County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Scenic Hills Estates. 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) |
| Ponderosa Estates Pws | 35 | 8 ppb |
Next steps for Logan, OH
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 Scenic Hills Estates 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.