Trimble Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Trimble Village Pws
Trimble Village Pws serves about 480 people through 198 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 Athens County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH0501703; phone on file: 740-767-2341. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Trimble Village Pws's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Trimble Village Pws is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Trimble Village 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. Trimble Village Pws's 1 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Ohio and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Athens County
12 other systems share Athens County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Trimble Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Athens Pws | 32,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Le-Ax Regional Water District Pws | 19,311 | 1.19 ppb |
| Nelsonville Pws | 6,656 | 1.2 ppb |
| Sunday Creek Valley Water Pws | 5,451 | 1.7 ppb |
| Athens Co., The Plains S.D. 1 Pws | 3,276 | 2 ppb |
| Burr Oak Regional Water District | 1,994 | 1.6 ppb |
| Glouster Public Water System | 1,659 | 0.8 ppb |
| Chauncey | 1,428 | 1.19 ppb |
| Albany Village Pws | 901 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coolville Village Pws | 859 | 2.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Trimble, 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 Trimble 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.