Aqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities
What EPA’s and Ohio’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.
- Serves
- 715 people
- Connections
- 293
- Water source
- Groundwater
- Based in
- Struthers, OH
- County
- Columbiana
- Owner
- Private
The short answer
Nothing in EPA’s and Ohio’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.
What was found
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 18, 2020 to July 18, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.
Below EPA’s limits3
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
Forms or is added in treatment
29.9ppb
Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025
2025 average: 28.1 ppb
Averaged by year, the highest was 29.9 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 34.4 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 28.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 45.4 ppb, in 2017.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Forms or is added in treatment
8.6ppb
Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025
2025: not found
Averaged by year, the highest was 8.6 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 9.9 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 11.7 ppb, in 2016.
What handles it
No certification claim covers this compound yet.
Fluoride
Forms or is added in treatment
0.37ppm
Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023
2023, one sample: 0.29 ppm
Averaged by year, the highest was 0.37 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.29 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.35 ppm, in 2017.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
- Arsenic
- Chromium (total)
- Lead
- Nitrate
Violations since 2016
No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.
What this report can’t tell you
Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Aqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.
Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.
What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.
Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Ohio’s results run from Feb. 18, 2020 to July 18, 2025.
Testing your own tap
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to the area Aqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Cardinal Environmental Lab, LLC
Youngstown, OH · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Mahoning County Board of Health
Youngstown, OH · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria
Canton Water Laboratory
Canton, OH · about 40 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics
Sources
- EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data, file of Oct. 15, 2026
- EPA SDWA bulk download (SDWIS federal data), 2026 Q3
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, results from Jan. 2, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2025, read Oct. 17, 2026
- EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, file of Feb. 5, 2024
- Certified labs: Ohio EPA, laboratories certified/accepted to perform analyses on public drinking water, read Oct. 10, 2026; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer
- Limits and goals: each contaminant’s page, with its EPA source.
- How this page is built: methodology.
PWSID OH1502512. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.
What to do next
- Nothing here is above a health goalIn EPA’s and Ohio’s records for this utility. They don’t cover everything, which is why the next step matters.Every contaminant TapBuff tracks
- Get the utility’s own reportAqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities must send you a water quality report every year. It covers contaminants this page does not show.How to read it
- Test your own tap for leadYour service line, solder and fixtures decide the lead at your faucet, not the utility’s average.Lead in your water: what to do
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded