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Ohio Living Dorothy Love 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
471 people
Connections
58
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Sidney, OH
County
Shelby
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

45365

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2014 to 2025. Copper at 202 mg/L (2005) 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.

Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and chromium (total): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 14, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.0ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.0 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

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.5 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

41.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 39.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 41.9 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 51.9 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 39.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 19.8 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 1.3 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.7 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

14.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 14.2 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 23.5 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 9.3 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.61ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 0.23 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 0.61 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.23 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.66 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

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

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

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

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

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 6 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and chromium (total) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Ohio Living Dorothy Love 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 Sept. 14, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Ohio Living Dorothy Love 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 Ohio Living Dorothy Love PWS serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Logan County Health District Laboratory

    Bellefontaine, OH · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (937) 592-9040

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Dayton

    Englewood, OH · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (800) 723-5227

  • Dayton Central Water Quality Laboratory

    Dayton, OH · about 31 miles

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

    (937) 333-6093

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH7500712. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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