Is Midvale, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Midvale has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Aqua Ohio - Midvale.
Aqua Ohio - Midvale, 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.
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 Midvale’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Aqua Ohio - Midvale
Ohio · serves 2,147 people · about 550 in Midvale
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
- Open report
New Philadelphia City PWS
Ohio · serves 17,410 people · under 100 in Midvale
2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.8 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Midvale
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Midvale, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Ream & Haager Laboratories, Inc.
Dover, OH · about 9 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Canton City Health Department
Canton, OH · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria
Edenridge Laboratory, Ltd.
Millersburg, OH · about 27 miles
Certified for bacteria
Which ZIP codes are in Midvale: 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 Midvale
Other towns in Tuscarawas County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Aqua Ohio - Midvale’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