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Buckeye Lake, Village of 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
2,746 people
Connections
1,049
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Buckeye Lake, OH
County
Licking
Owner
Local government
The 3 ZIP codes it serves

43008, 43025, 43076

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 2018 to 2025.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.8 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 2013. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 9, 2020 to Oct. 13, 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

1.4ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.4 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

70.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 59.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 70.4 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 97.7 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its eight samples averaged 59.2 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 81.6 ppb, in 2013.

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

18ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 10.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 18 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 23.9 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its eight samples averaged 10.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 21 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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 RuleWater chemistry used to keep pipes from corroding was outside the required range.EPA: WQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceJan. 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 3 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Buckeye Lake, Village of 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. 9, 2020 to Oct. 13, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Ohio Department of Agriculture Consumer Protection Laboratory

    Reynoldsburg, OH · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 728-6230

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 30 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

  • Coshocton Environmental Testing, LLC

    Coshocton, OH · about 38 miles

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

    (740) 622-3328

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH4564712. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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