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Spring Meadows Care Center

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
42 people
Connections
1
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Woodstock, OH
County
Champaign
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

43084

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, 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 2013 to 2025. Copper at 225 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.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.1 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 2007. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, chromium (total) and nitrate: Ohio’s own results, samples taken from May 26, 2020 to Sept. 26, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

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

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.2ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.2 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 limits5

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

59.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 59.3 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.2 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

52.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 52.6 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.2 ppb, in 2013.

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

1.6ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.6 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

5.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.3 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.26ppm

Highest sample; found in 3 of 6

2025: not found

The highest sample, in 2023, was 0.26 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

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

    For: Arsenic, Lead

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

  • NSF/ANSI 58

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

    For: Arsenic, Lead

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

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 11 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Spring Meadows Care Center’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 May 26, 2020 to Sept. 26, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Spring Meadows Care Center’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 Spring Meadows Care Center serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • MASI Laboratory

    Plain City, OH · about 15 miles

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

    (614) 873-4654

  • Logan County Health District Laboratory

    Bellefontaine, OH · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (937) 592-9040

  • Superior Laboratories

    Galloway, OH · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 870-6826

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

Sources

PWSID OH1100312. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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