Spring Valley Village, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (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. 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 Spring Valley Village
Spring Valley Village serves about 538 people through 225 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Greene County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2902422; phone on file: 937-367-4368. 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 2025 (1.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Valley Village is 8.48 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.04 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.92 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.11 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.04 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.48 ppb |
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. Spring Valley Village's 1.9 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Ohio and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Greene County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Valley Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greene Co.-Northwest Reg Water | 41,895 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairborn Public Water System | 34,620 | 3.1 ppb |
| Xenia City Pws | 29,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Wright-Patterson Afb Area A Pws | 16,551 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wright-Patterson Afb Area B Pws | 11,034 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bellbrook Water Works | 9,475 | 4.3 ppb |
| Wright State University | 8,948 | 3.1 ppb |
| Greene County Eastern Regional Pws | 4,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarville University | 4,000 | 3.4 ppb |
| Yellow Springs Village Pws | 3,761 | 4.2 ppb |
Next steps for Spring Valley, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.