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Is Darbydale, OH tap water safe?

Columbus Public Water System serves Darbydale, 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

Columbus Public Water System serves Darbydale. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 5.3 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Columbus Public Water System is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 98 to 125 mg/L (5.7 to 7.3 grains per gallon). How Ohio’s water compares.

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 Columbus Public Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Darbydale

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

  • Superior Laboratories

    Galloway, OH · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 870-6826

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

  • MASI Laboratory

    Plain City, OH · about 18 miles

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

    (614) 873-4654

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Darbydale

Which ZIP codes are in Darbydale: 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 Darbydale

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

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