Winesburg Area Development Corporation, OH
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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.
Winesburg Area Development Corporation at a glance
Winesburg Area Development Corporation serves about 1,575 people through 552 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Holmes County, Ohio. EPA system ID: OH3801412; phone on file: 330-359-6330. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Winesburg Area Development Corporation is 2.48 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.48 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.24 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.01 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.69 ppb |
How Winesburg Area Development Corporation 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. Winesburg Area Development Corporation's 1.8 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Ohio and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Holmes County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Winesburg Area Development Corporation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Millersburg Village Pws | 3,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berlin Water Company | 1,896 | 0.9 ppb |
| Walnut Creek Water Co. | 1,270 | 1.57 ppb |
| Killbuck Village Pws | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bloomfield Water Company | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Castle Nursing Homes, Inc Pws | 428 | 3.85 ppb |
| Glenmont Village Pws | 280 | 1.6 ppb |
| Big Prairie Community Water Company | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashville Village Pws | 197 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holmes County Jail | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Winesburg, OH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Winesburg, 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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.