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Continental 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
1,153 people
Connections
483
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Delphos, OH
County
Putnam
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

45831

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. 5 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: copper at 60 mg/L (2005) 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), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from March 13, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

72.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 5.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 72.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 99.8 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 5.3 ppb. EPA judges this limit at each sampling point, and recorded a violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 114 ppb, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012, 2017 and 2018.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppm, in 2025, 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 2.6 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

14.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 14.4 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 28.1 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 12 ppb, in 2017.

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)
  • Lead
  • 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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2020 to March 31, 20200.083 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2018 to June 30, 20180.085 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2018 to March 31, 20180.081 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2017 to Dec. 31, 20170.082 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 20170.081 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 35 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Continental 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 March 13, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Kleinfelder Water Technologies Laboratory

    McClure, OH · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 748-7438

  • Eurofins DW and WW Central - Lima

    Lima, OH · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 223-1362

  • BoJhun Environmental Services

    Fostoria, OH · about 45 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 436-7066

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH6900212. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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