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Buckeye Trails - M

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
330 people
Connections
116
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Orem, OH
County
Pickaway
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

43137

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 2013 to 2025. Copper at 110 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) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 26, 2020 to Sept. 17, 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

0.6ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.6 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

24.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 18.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 24.7 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 18.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 30.5 ppb, in 2016.

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

5.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.2 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

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
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencyAug. 15, 2025—Unaddressed
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 6 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 Trails - M’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 Aug. 26, 2020 to Sept. 17, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Buckeye Trails - M’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 Trails - M serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Superior Laboratories

    Galloway, OH · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 870-6826

  • Ohio Department of Agriculture Consumer Protection Laboratory

    Reynoldsburg, OH · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 728-6230

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH6501812. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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