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Bainbrook Water Company PWS

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
339 people
Connections
133
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Middleburg Heights, OH
County
Geauga
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

44023

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2016 to 2025. Copper at 270 mg/L (2004) is left out of this report: it is one of the results Ohio sent EPA in 2006, all at µg/L magnitudes though EPA’s file marks them mg/L.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 8, 2020 to July 1, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.9ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.9 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 11 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 24.1 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.11ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023, one sample: 0.11 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.11 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.11 ppm.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Nitrate

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Bainbrook Water Company PWS’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 Jan. 8, 2020 to July 1, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Bainbrook Water Company PWS’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Ohio certifies.

The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to the area Bainbrook Water Company PWS serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Biosolutions, LLC

    Chagrin Falls, OH · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (440) 708-2999

  • BSA Environmental Services, Inc.

    Beachwood, OH · about 13 miles

    (216) 765-0582

  • Eurofins Environment Testing North Central

    Cleveland, OH · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (216) 663-0808

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH2803112. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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