West Manchester, Village Of, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
West Manchester, Village Of at a glance
West Manchester, Village Of serves about 471 people through 193 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 Preble County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH6801412; phone on file: 937-336-1561. 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 2.5 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Manchester, Village Of is 10.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 10.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.73 ppb |
How West Manchester, Village Of 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. West Manchester, Village Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Ohio and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Preble County
11 other systems share Preble County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Manchester, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eaton Public Water System | 8,400 | 6.7 ppb |
| Lakengren Water Authority | 2,950 | 2.4 ppb |
| Camden, Village Of | 2,050 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lewisburg Village Pws | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Paris Village Pws | 1,681 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Alexandria, Village Of | 1,385 | 3.8 ppb |
| Gratis Village Pws | 990 | 1.5 ppb |
| Eldorado, Village Of | 539 | 2 ppb |
| Verona, Village Of | 492 | 1 ppb |
| College Corner Water | 387 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Manchester, 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 West Manchester, Village Of 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.