Smithville Western Limited, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Smithville Western Limited serves about 480 people through 66 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8503712; phone on file: 330-345-9050. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smithville Western Limited is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Smithville Western Limited's 0.4 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Ohio and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Wayne County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Smithville Western Limited. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wooster City Pws | 26,618 | 2.1 ppb |
| Orrville City Pws | 8,452 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rittman City Pws | 6,491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doylestown Village Pws | 3,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creston Village | 2,171 | 3.34 ppb |
| Dalton Village Pws | 2,000 | 2.08 ppb |
| Shreve Village Pws | 1,514 | 2.31 ppb |
| West Salem Village Pws | 1,410 | 2.4 ppb |
| Smithville Village Pws | 1,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Apple Creek Village Pws | 1,190 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wooster, 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 Smithville Western Limited 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.