Scioto Water Inc.-Slab Run, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Scioto Water Inc.-Slab Run at a glance
Scioto Water Inc.-Slab Run serves about 115 people through 58 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: OH7301603; 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
That is up 2.4 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scioto Water Inc.-Slab Run is 3.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Scioto Water Inc.-Slab Run's 3 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Ohio and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Scioto County
16 other systems share Scioto County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Scioto Water Inc.-Slab 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) |
What to do in your house
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.-Slab 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.