Is Bridgeport, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Bridgeport has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 PWS.
Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 PWS, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Ohio’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
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 Bridgeport’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 PWS
Ohio · serves 26,822 people · about 200 in Bridgeport
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
- Open report
Bridgeport Public Water System
Ohio · serves 2,830 people · about 130 in Bridgeport
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 4.8 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Bridgeport
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Bridgeport, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Ream & Haager Laboratories, Inc.
Dover, OH · about 48 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Marietta Division
Marietta, OH · about 56 miles
Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS
Canton City Health Department
Canton, OH · about 58 miles
Certified for bacteria
ZIP codes in Bridgeport
Which ZIP codes are in Bridgeport: 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 Bridgeport
Towns nearby with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 PWS’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water