Tiltonsville Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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.
Tiltonsville Pws at a glance
Tiltonsville Pws serves about 1,372 people through 650 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 Jefferson County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4102712; phone on file: 740-275-6810. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tiltonsville Pws is 1.4 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 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. Tiltonsville Pws's 0.5 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Ohio and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Jefferson County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tiltonsville 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 |
| Yorkville Village Pws | 1,019 | 2.9 ppb |
| Jefferson Co.San.Dist.-G Pws | 990 | 1.2 ppb |
| Jefferson Co W&S District- J | 896 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tiltonsville, 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 Tiltonsville Pws whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2090 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.