Is Hunting Valley, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 5 utilities serving Hunting Valley has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Paw Paw Lake.
Cleveland Public Water System, 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.
The water from Cleveland Public Water System is moderately hard on average, 117 mg/L (6.8 grains per gallon), ranging from 105 to 130 mg/L. How Ohio’s water compares.
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 Hunting Valley’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Cleveland Public Water System
Ohio · serves 1.3 million people · about 1,800 in Hunting Valley
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: moderately hard on average, 117 mg/L (6.8 grains per gallon), ranging from 105 to 130 mg/L.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Chagrin Falls Village PWS
Ohio · serves 4,991 people · about 1,100 in Hunting Valley
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 25 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Whitetail Run Homeowners
Ohio · serves 250 people · nearly all in Hunting Valley
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.4 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Paw Paw Lake
Ohio · serves 120 people · nearly all in Hunting Valley
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Greentree Water Company
Ohio · serves 56 people · under 100 in Hunting Valley
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 6.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Hunting Valley
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Hunting Valley, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
BSA Environmental Services, Inc.
Beachwood, OH · about 6 miles
Eurofins Environment Testing North Central
Cleveland, OH · about 7 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Biosolutions, LLC
Chagrin Falls, OH · about 7 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
ZIP codes in Hunting Valley
Which ZIP codes are in Hunting Valley: 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 Hunting Valley
Other towns in Cuyahoga County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Cleveland Public Water System’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