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Chickasaw Village

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
358 people
Connections
182
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Chickasaw, OH
County
Mercer
Owner
Local government
Hardness
Very hard
The ZIP code it serves

45826

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Ohio’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Lead and copper: copper at 248 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), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 3, 2020 to Oct. 1, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from June 1, 2015 to June 1, 2015. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

69.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 69.7 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 2.6 ppb, in 2014.

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

43.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 14.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 43.9 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 14.4 ppb.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.0 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.89ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 6

2025: not found

The highest sample, in 2023, was 0.89 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.27 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Hardness

Very hard, typically 666 mg/L (38.9 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, 2020 to 2021.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 38.9 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Ohio water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 2 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Chickasaw Village’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and 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 Feb. 3, 2020 to Oct. 1, 2025; EPA’s compliance samples are from June 1, 2015 to June 1, 2015.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Eurofins DW and WW Central - Lima

    Lima, OH · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 223-1362

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Dayton

    Englewood, OH · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (800) 723-5227

  • Logan County Health District Laboratory

    Bellefontaine, OH · about 39 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (937) 592-9040

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH5402212. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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