Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run serves about 59 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Scioto County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7302103; phone on file: 740-354-9140. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run is 0.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run compares
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.-Nace'S Run's 0.3 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Ohio and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Scioto County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run. 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) |
Next steps for Franklin Furnace, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Franklin Furnace, 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 Scioto Water Inc.-Nace'S Run 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.