Fairlane Water Co.

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: 354 people
Connections: 118
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Akron, OH
County: Portage
Owner: Private

The ZIP code it serves

44260

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 749 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.

Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 16, 2020 to July 30, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.33ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 0.22 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.33 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.22 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.71 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.6 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. 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 yearly average of 10.9 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

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

5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Arsenic
Chromium (total)
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Lead
Nitrate

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 7 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fairlane Water Co.’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. 16, 2020 to July 30, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
Akron, OH · about 10 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
(330) 535-1300
EnviroScience
Stow, OH · about 11 miles
(330) 688-0111
Portage County Water Resources
Ravenna, OH · about 11 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics
(330) 297-3685