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South Amherst Village 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
1,688 people
Connections
686
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
South Amherst, OH
County
Lorain
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

44001

The short answer

1 result is 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 2018 to 2025. Copper at 130 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.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from March 4, 2020 to July 23, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.6ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.6 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

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

64.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 52.6 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 64.3 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 74 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 52.6 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 46.5 ppb, in 2012.

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

21.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025 average: 4.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 21.6 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 28.2 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 4.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 26.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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.”

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.

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. South Amherst Village 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 March 4, 2020 to July 23, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

  • CETEC Cleveland Environmental Technology, Inc.

    Middleburg Heights, OH · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (216) 856-2898

  • Erie County Health Department Laboratory

    Sandusky, OH · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 626-5623

  • Eastern Lab Services, Ltd.

    Medina, OH · about 26 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 670-7920

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH4701411. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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