Stratton Pws, OH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Stratton Pws
Stratton Pws serves about 320 people through 188 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4102512. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stratton Pws is 0.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Stratton Pws 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. Stratton Pws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Ohio and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Jefferson County
17 other systems share Jefferson County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stratton Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Steubenville, City Of | 17,000 | 7.1 ppb |
| Jefferson Co W And S District - M | 13,983 | 0.6 ppb |
| Toronto Pws | 5,676 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wintersville Village Pws | 3,924 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mingo Junction Pws | 3,350 | 1.4 ppb |
| Jefferson Co W And S District- A | 2,635 | 4.7 ppb |
| Brilliant Water And Sewer | 2,000 | 2.7 ppb |
| Tiltonsville Pws | 1,372 | 0.5 ppb |
| Yorkville Village Pws | 1,019 | 2.9 ppb |
| Jefferson Co.San.Dist.-G Pws | 990 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Wellsville, OH
Look up your address in Stratton 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 Stratton 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.