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Brilliant Water and Sewer

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
2,000 people
Connections
560
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Brilliant, OH
County
Jefferson
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

43913

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2015 to 2026.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from May 5, 2020 to Aug. 18, 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

2.7ppb

90th percentile, 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.7 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 limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

40.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 9.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 40.4 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 41.6 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 9.7 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 29.6 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 1.5 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 3.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.5 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.4 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 11.2 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 12.4 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 3.8 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.18ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.18 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

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

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

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper Rule RevisionsThe required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL InventoryOct. 17, 2024—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 9 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Brilliant Water and Sewer’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 May 5, 2020 to Aug. 18, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Brilliant Water and Sewer’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 Brilliant Water and Sewer serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Ream & Haager Laboratories, Inc.

    Dover, OH · about 48 miles

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

    (330) 343-3711

  • Canton City Health Department

    Canton, OH · about 53 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 489-3231

  • Canton Water Laboratory

    Canton, OH · about 53 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (330) 489-3035

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH4100412. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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