Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
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 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.
About Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws
Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws serves about 132 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Scioto County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7332513; phone on file: 740-354-9140. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws is 2.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Ohio and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Scioto County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Portsmouth City | 40,475 | 1.6 ppb |
| Scioto Co. Regional Water District #1 | 13,820 | 1.1 ppb |
| Northwest Regional Water District | 11,059 | 2.8 ppb |
| Scioto Water Inc.-Rose Hill | 8,861 | 1.5 ppb |
| Scioto Water Inc.-Sugar Camp | 6,458 | 2 ppb |
| Scioto Water Inc. - Pond Run | 845 | 2.8 ppb |
| Scioto Water Inc.-Sr125 | 537 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scioto Water Inc.-Careys Run | 352 | 4 ppb |
| Scioto Water Inc - Stony Run | 178 | 0.5 ppb |
| Scioto Water, Inc.-Davis Camp | 134 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd 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 Scioto Water Inc. - Gliem Rd 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.