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Is Medina, OH tap water safe?

5 utilities serve Medina, 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.

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The short answer

None of the 5 utilities serving Medina has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records.

Medina Co/Northwest PWS, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.6 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Medina’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Medina Co/Northwest PWS’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Medina

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

  • Eastern Lab Services, Ltd.

    Medina, OH · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 670-7920

  • Eurofins Cleveland

    Barberton, OH · about 15 miles

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

    (330) 497-9396

  • CETEC Cleveland Environmental Technology, Inc.

    Middleburg Heights, OH · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (216) 856-2898

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Medina

Which ZIP codes are in Medina: 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 Medina

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

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