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Is Ashville, OH tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Ashville, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Ohio’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Ashville has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: South Bloomfield Village PWS.

Ashville Village PWS, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 2.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Ashville’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Ashville Village PWS’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Ashville

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Ohio certifies.

The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Ashville, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Ohio Department of Agriculture Consumer Protection Laboratory

    Reynoldsburg, OH · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 728-6230

  • Superior Laboratories

    Galloway, OH · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 870-6826

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Ashville

Which ZIP codes are in Ashville: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Ohio EPA, laboratories certified/accepted to perform analyses on public drinking water; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Ashville

Other towns in Pickaway County with a page of their own.

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