Wellington Village Pws, OH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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.
Wellington Village Pws at a glance
Wellington Village Pws serves about 4,802 people through 1,914 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lorain County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH4701511; phone on file: 440-647-1545. 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 down 1.3 ppb from 3.7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wellington Village Pws is 17 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 10 ppb |
| 2022 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 10 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 8.9 ppb |
How Wellington 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. Wellington Village Pws's 2.4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Ohio and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Lorain County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Wellington Village Pws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rural Lorain Co. Water A | 73,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elyria Water Department | 68,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lorain City Pws | 64,152 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Ridgeville City Pws | 37,786 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon City Pws | 24,060 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avon Lake City Pws | 23,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Amherst City Pws | 11,797 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sheffield Lake City Pws | 9,108 | 1.9 ppb |
| Oberlin Water Department | 8,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sheffield Village Pws | 4,165 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Wellington, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wellington, 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 Wellington 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.