Geauga County Services Center 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
- 570 people
- Connections
- 18
- Water source
- Groundwater
- Based in
- Chardon, OH
- County
- Geauga
- Owner
- Local government
The ZIP code it serves
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 125 mg/L (2005) and copper at 120 mg/L (2004) are left out of this report: they are among the results Ohio sent EPA in 2006, all at µg/L magnitudes though EPA’s file marks them mg/L.
Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 8, 2020 to Aug. 12, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.
Below EPA’s limits3
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Forms or is added in treatment
19.1ppb
Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025
2025 average: 7.5 ppb
Averaged by year, the highest was 19.1 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 21 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 7.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 14.7 ppb, in 2017.
What handles it
No certification claim covers this compound yet.
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
Forms or is added in treatment
20.5ppb
Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025
2025 average: 18.6 ppb
Averaged by year, the highest was 20.5 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 31.8 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 18.6 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 27.1 ppb, in 2017.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
Nitrate
Comes from the source
1.4ppm
Highest sample; found in 3 of 6
2025, one sample: 0.27 ppm
The highest sample, in 2024, was 1.4 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.27 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.19 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)
- Fluoride
- Lead
Violations since 2016
No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.
What this report can’t tell you
Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Geauga County Services Center 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 Jan. 8, 2020 to Aug. 12, 2025.
Testing your own tap
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to the area Geauga County Services Center PWS serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Geauga County Department of Water Resources
Chardon, OH · under a mile
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics
Biosolutions, LLC
Chagrin Falls, OH · about 14 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
BSA Environmental Services, Inc.
Beachwood, OH · about 18 miles
Sources
- EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data, file of Oct. 15, 2026
- EPA SDWA bulk download (SDWIS federal data), 2026 Q3
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, results from Jan. 2, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2025, read Oct. 17, 2026
- EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, file of Feb. 5, 2024
- Certified labs: Ohio EPA, laboratories certified/accepted to perform analyses on public drinking water, read Oct. 10, 2026; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer
- Limits and goals: each contaminant’s page, with its EPA source.
- How this page is built: methodology.
PWSID OH2868112. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.
What to do next
- Nothing here is above a health goalIn EPA’s and Ohio’s records for this utility. They don’t cover everything, which is why the next step matters.Every contaminant TapBuff tracks
- Get the utility’s own reportGeauga County Services Center PWS must send you a water quality report every year. It covers contaminants this page does not show.How to read it
- Test your own tap for leadYour service line, solder and fixtures decide the lead at your faucet, not the utility’s average.Lead in your water: what to do
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded