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Is Cuyahoga Falls, OH tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Cuyahoga Falls, 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.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

3 of the 4 utilities serving Cuyahoga Falls have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Cuyahoga Falls City PWS, Akron City PWS and Stow Public Water System.

Cuyahoga Falls City 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 Cuyahoga Falls’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

Water testing near Cuyahoga Falls

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 Cuyahoga Falls, 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 1 mile

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

    (330) 253-8211

  • EnviroScience

    Stow, OH · about 4 miles

    (330) 688-0111

  • American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

    Akron, OH · about 7 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 Cuyahoga Falls

Which ZIP codes are in Cuyahoga Falls: 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.

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