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Is Bellefontaine, OH tap water safe?

Bellefontaine City PWS serves Bellefontaine, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Ohio’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Bellefontaine City PWS serves Bellefontaine. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 4.2 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Bellefontaine City PWS’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Bellefontaine

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 Bellefontaine, 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 · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (937) 592-9040

  • MASI Laboratory

    Plain City, OH · about 31 miles

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

    (614) 873-4654

  • Eurofins DW and WW Central - Lima

    Lima, OH · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 223-1362

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Bellefontaine

Which ZIP codes are in Bellefontaine: 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 Bellefontaine

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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