Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District at a glance
Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District serves about 16,087 people through 6,461 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Meigs County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH5300612; phone on file: 740-985-3315. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District is 4.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District 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. Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District's 1.3 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Ohio and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Meigs County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Creek Conservancy District | 6,663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Middleport Village Pws | 2,446 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pomeroy Village Pws | 1,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Syracuse Village Pws | 826 | 4.2 ppb |
| Racine Village Pws | 675 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Long Bottom, 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 Tuppers Plains/Chester Water District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.