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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
2,491 people
Connections
739
Water source
Surface water
Based in
New Concord, OH
County
Muskingum
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

43762

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 172 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.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.6 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 7, 2020 to Dec. 3, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

47ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 40.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 47 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 76.8 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its 10 samples averaged 40.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 53.1 ppb, in 2013.

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

34.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 32.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 34.9 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 49.2 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its 10 samples averaged 32.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 31.2 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.1ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 0.73 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.1 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.73 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.1 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.92ppm

Highest sample; found in 37 of 72

2025 average: 0.26 ppm

The highest sample, in 2023, was 0.92 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its 12 samples averaged 0.26 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.8 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

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

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. New Concord 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. 7, 2020 to Dec. 3, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Coshocton Environmental Testing, LLC

    Coshocton, OH · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (740) 622-3328

  • SafeSource Water Analytics LLC

    McConnelsville, OH · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (740) 292-2002

  • Edenridge Laboratory, Ltd.

    Millersburg, OH · about 36 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 893-2933

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH6001711. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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