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Brewster Village 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
2,113 people
Connections
848
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Brewster, OH
County
Stark
Owner
Local government
The 2 ZIP codes it serves

44613, 44662

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 2007 to 2026. Copper at 268 mg/L (2005) and copper at 221 mg/L (2004) are left out of this report: they are among the results Ohio sent EPA in 2006, all at µg/L magnitudes though EPA’s file marks them mg/L.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 8, 2020 to Oct. 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

7.1ppb

90th percentile, 2024 to 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 7.1 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

37.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 30.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 37.1 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 47.4 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 30.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 71.8 ppb, in 2019.

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

Below EPA’s limits

13.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 13.1 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 13.5 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 15 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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

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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), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Brewster Village 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 Oct. 1, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Brewster Village 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 Brewster Village PWS serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Canton City Health Department

    Canton, OH · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 489-3231

  • Ream & Haager Laboratories, Inc.

    Dover, OH · about 13 miles

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

    (330) 343-3711

  • Canton Water Laboratory

    Canton, OH · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (330) 489-3035

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH7600512. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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