Sidney City Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Sidney City Pws serves about 20,614 people through 9,600 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Shelby County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7501214; phone on file: 937-498-8180. 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 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sidney City Pws is 0.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Sidney City Pws's 0.9 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Ohio and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Shelby County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sidney City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Village Pws | 1,558 | 6.7 ppb |
| Fort Loramie Village Pws | 1,524 | 3.1 ppb |
| Jackson Center Village Pws | 1,462 | 0.8 ppb |
| Botkins Village Pws | 1,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Russia Village Pws | 640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ohio Living Dorothy Love Pws | 471 | 1 ppb |
| Shelby County Water And Sewer Pws | 375 | 4.6 ppb |
| Fair Haven Shelby County Home | 290 | 1.6 ppb |
| The Way International | 248 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kettlersville Well Association Pws | 200 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Sidney, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sidney, 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 Sidney 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.