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Is Lakewood, OH tap water safe?

Lakewood City PWS serves Lakewood, 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

Lakewood City PWS serves Lakewood. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.2 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Lakewood City PWS’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Lakewood

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

  • Cleveland Water Compliance Laboratory

    Cleveland, OH · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (216) 664-3171

  • CETEC Cleveland Environmental Technology, Inc.

    Middleburg Heights, OH · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (216) 856-2898

  • NEORSD Analytical Services

    Cuyahoga Heights, OH · about 11 miles

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

    (216) 641-6000

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Lakewood

Which ZIP codes are in Lakewood: 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 Lakewood

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

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