Wayne Village Pws, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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.
About Wayne Village Pws
Wayne Village Pws serves about 941 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 Wood County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH8703112; phone on file: 419-288-3075. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wayne Village Pws is 3.4 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Wayne Village Pws's 2.7 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Ohio and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Wood County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Wayne Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green City | 31,578 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perrysburg City Pws | 27,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Toledo Svc Area | 19,332 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Oregon Wtln 200 | 9,629 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Portage | 4,776 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Weston | 3,648 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwestern W And Sd - Middleton Twp | 3,615 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Baltimore Village | 3,432 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Rapids Village | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pemberville Village Pws | 1,326 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wayne, 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 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.