South Point Village, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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 South Point Village
South Point Village serves about 4,133 people through 2,061 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 groundwater, in Lawrence County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4401212; phone on file: 740-377-4838. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.4 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Point Village is 3.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How South Point Village 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. South Point Village's 3.8 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Ohio and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Lawrence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Point Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hecla Water Association | 34,942 | 0.7 ppb |
| Ironton | 11,129 | 1.1 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County | 8,130 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coal Grove | 2,167 | 1 ppb |
| Proctorville Village Pws | 574 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for South Point, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Point, 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 South Point Village 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.