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Dayton VA Bldg 320 Pod A

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
95 people
Connections
1
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Dayton, OH
County
Montgomery
Owner
Federal government

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 2 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2019 to 2026.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 15, 2020 to Dec. 10, 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

2.2ppb

90th percentile, 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.2 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 limits3

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

37.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 32.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 37.7 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 32.7 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 33.1 ppb, in 2019.

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

12.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 12.2 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.3 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 217 of 220

2025 average: 1.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 1.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its 128 samples averaged 1.0 ppm.

What handles it

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

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
ChloriteThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 5 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Dayton VA Bldg 320 Pod A’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 Sept. 15, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Dayton VA Bldg 320 Pod A’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.

No lab Ohio certifies is within 75 miles of the area Dayton VA Bldg 320 Pod A serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH5750619. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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