St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La serves about 143 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7708812; phone on file: 330-245-7313. 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 down 9 ppb from 16 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La is 16 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 ppb |
| 2025 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La's 7 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Ohio and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
28 other systems share Summit County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Akron City Pws | 280,000 | 2.67 ppb |
| Cuyahoga Falls City Pws | 51,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stow Public Water System | 35,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barberton City | 31,298 | 3.01 ppb |
| Tallmadge City Pws | 18,394 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hudson City Pws | 8,385 | 2.1 ppb |
| Munroe Falls City Pws | 5,042 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakemore Village Pws | 3,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Silver Lake Village Pws | 2,519 | 2.95 ppb |
| Aqua Ohio - Shepard Hills Pws | 725 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Akron, 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 St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.