Sheffield Lake City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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 Sheffield Lake City Pws
Sheffield Lake City Pws serves about 9,108 people through 3,430 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lorain County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4701103; phone on file: 440-949-6259. 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 (2.44 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sheffield Lake City Pws is 6.3 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.44 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.9 ppb |
How Sheffield Lake City Pws 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. Sheffield Lake City Pws's 1.9 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Ohio and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lorain County
14 other systems share Lorain County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sheffield Lake City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rural Lorain Co. Water A | 73,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elyria Water Department | 68,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lorain City Pws | 64,152 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Ridgeville City Pws | 37,786 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon City Pws | 24,060 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon Lake City Pws | 23,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Amherst City Pws | 11,797 | 2.5 ppb |
| Oberlin Water Department | 8,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wellington Village Pws | 4,802 | 2.4 ppb |
| Sheffield Village Pws | 4,165 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sheffield Lake, 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 Sheffield Lake City 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.