Wayne County Care Center, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Wayne County Care Center
Wayne County Care Center serves about 173 people through 93 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8504212; phone on file: 330-262-1786. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wayne County Care Center is 44.7 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.49 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.69 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.84 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.71 ppb |
| 2019 | 44.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 20.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4.6 ppb |
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. Wayne County Care Center's 2.6 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Ohio and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Wayne County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Wayne County Care Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wooster City Pws | 26,618 | 2.1 ppb |
| Orrville City Pws | 8,452 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rittman City Pws | 6,491 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doylestown Village Pws | 3,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creston Village | 2,171 | 3.34 ppb |
| Dalton Village Pws | 2,000 | 2.08 ppb |
| Shreve Village Pws | 1,514 | 2.31 ppb |
| West Salem Village Pws | 1,410 | 2.4 ppb |
| Smithville Village Pws | 1,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Apple Creek Village Pws | 1,190 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wooster, 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 Wayne County Care Center 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.