Tcmsd-Baltic Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10 ppb (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. 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.
Tcmsd-Baltic Pws at a glance
Tcmsd-Baltic Pws serves about 795 people through 386 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 Tuscarawas County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH7900112. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 8.2 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tcmsd-Baltic Pws is 13 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 10 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
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. Tcmsd-Baltic Pws's 10 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Ohio and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Tuscarawas County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tcmsd-Baltic Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Philadelphia City Pws | 17,410 | 1.36 ppb |
| Dover City Pws | 13,253 | 2 ppb |
| Twin City Water And Sewer District Pws | 9,224 | 1.89 ppb |
| Tcmsd-Wilkshire Hills Pws | 6,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newcomerstown Village Pws | 3,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strasburg Village Pws | 2,610 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sugarcreek Village Pws | 2,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Ohio - Midvale | 2,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gnadenhutten | 1,240 | 6.67 ppb |
| Tuscarawas Village | 1,056 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bolivar, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bolivar, 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 Tcmsd-Baltic 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.