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Northeast Water System

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
1,250 people
Connections
500
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Wauseon, OH
County
Fulton
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

43567

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 12, 2020 to Nov. 12, 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

75ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 51.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 75 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 116 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its 10 samples averaged 51.2 ppb. EPA judges this limit at each sampling point, and recorded a violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2022. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 67.7 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

18ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 14.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 18 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 29.9 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its 10 samples averaged 14.8 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 15.3 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Lead

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, AverageOct. 1, 2022 to Dec. 31, 20220.086 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 20220.087 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2022 to June 30, 20220.081 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 3 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Northeast Water System’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 Feb. 12, 2020 to Nov. 12, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Northeast Water System’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 Northeast Water System 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 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 748-7438

  • Jones & Henry Laboratories

    Northwood, OH · about 36 miles

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

    (419) 666-0411

  • BoJhun Environmental Services

    Fostoria, OH · about 49 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 436-7066

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH2637812. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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