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Is Lima, OH tap water safe?

Lima City serves Lima, 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

Lima City serves Lima. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, and 4 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 67 ppb, above the legal limit.

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 Lima City’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Lima

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

  • Eurofins DW and WW Central - Lima

    Lima, OH · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 223-1362

  • Logan County Health District Laboratory

    Bellefontaine, OH · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (937) 592-9040

  • Kleinfelder Water Technologies Laboratory

    McClure, OH · about 43 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (419) 748-7438

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Lima

Which ZIP codes are in Lima: 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 Lima

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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