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Is Boston Heights, OH tap water safe?

7 utilities serve Boston Heights, 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

4 of the 7 utilities serving Boston Heights have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Hudson City PWS, Akron City PWS, Cuyahoga Falls City PWS and 1 more.

Hudson City PWS, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 27.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. 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 Boston Heights’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 Hudson City PWS’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Water testing near Boston Heights

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 Boston Heights, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Alliance Technical Group, LLC-Akron

    Cuyahoga Falls, OH · about 5 miles

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

    (330) 253-8211

  • EnviroScience

    Stow, OH · about 5 miles

    (330) 688-0111

  • American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

    Akron, OH · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (330) 535-1300

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Boston Heights

Which ZIP codes are in Boston Heights: 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 Boston Heights

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