Southern Perry Co-Millertown, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Southern Perry Co-Millertown at a glance
Southern Perry Co-Millertown serves about 146 people through 53 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Perry County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6401903; phone on file: 740-347-9030. 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 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southern Perry Co-Millertown is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Southern Perry Co-Millertown 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. Southern Perry Co-Millertown's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Ohio and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Perry County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southern Perry Co-Millertown. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Lexington | 5,161 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Perry Co-Congo | 4,029 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Straitsville Water Association | 2,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crooksville | 2,534 | 1.4 ppb |
| Portersville East Branch Water Co. | 2,340 | 4.3 ppb |
| Northern Perry Co.Water #2 | 1,802 | 3.2 ppb |
| Northern Perry Co.Water #1 | 1,706 | 0 (not detected) |
| Somerset Village Of | 1,490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Thornville, Village Of | 991 | 1.76 ppb |
| Junction City | 819 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Southern Perry Co-Millertown'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 Southern Perry Co-Millertown 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.