South Lebanon City Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
South Lebanon City Pws serves about 7,792 people through 1,298 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 Warren County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8301312; phone on file: 513-770-4871. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Lebanon City Pws is 1.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.58 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. South Lebanon City Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in Ohio and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Warren County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Lebanon City Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warren County | 99,000 | 1.4 ppb |
| Western Water Company | 39,508 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lebanon City | 20,700 | 1.2 ppb |
| Springboro Pws | 19,263 | 4.4 ppb |
| Franklin Public Water System | 11,690 | 2.1 ppb |
| Waynesville Village Pws | 4,100 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lebanon Correctional Institution | 3,410 | 4.4 ppb |
| Morrow Village Pws | 3,360 | 1.9 ppb |
| Carlisle City Pws | 1,675 | 1.7 ppb |
| Otterbein-Lebanon Retreat Center | 1,541 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for South Lebanon, OH
Look up your address in South Lebanon City Pws's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask South Lebanon 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.