Sugar Grove Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Sugar Grove Village Pws
Sugar Grove Village Pws serves about 426 people through 194 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 Fairfield County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH2302112; phone on file: 740-746-8406. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Sugar Grove Village Pws's lead record
That is up 2.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugar Grove Village Pws is 2.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Ohio systems
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. Sugar Grove Village Pws's 2.9 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Ohio and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fairfield County
20 other systems share Fairfield County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sugar Grove Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lancaster City Pws | 40,400 | 0.8 ppb |
| Pickerington City Pws | 19,141 | 0.6 ppb |
| Fairfield County Utilities Pws | 19,113 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersport Village Pws | 3,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Baltimore Village Pws | 2,995 | 2.1 ppb |
| Canal Pointe Industrial Park Pws | 1,721 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lithopolis Village Pws | 1,573 | 3.1 ppb |
| Odrc-Southeastern Correctional Institute | 1,461 | 0.5 ppb |
| Little Walnut Water Treatment Facility | 1,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bremen Village | 1,425 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sugar Grove, 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 Sugar Grove Village 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.