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Is Mount Orab, OH tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Mount Orab, 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

1 of the 3 utilities serving Mount Orab has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Williamsburg Village PWS.

Mount Orab Village PWS, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.9 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 Mount Orab’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 Mount Orab Village 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 Mount Orab

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

  • ALS Environmental - Cincinnati

    Cincinnati, OH · about 24 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals, asbestos

    (513) 733-5336

  • Q Laboratories

    Cincinnati, OH · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (513) 471-1300

  • Greene County Sanitary Engineering Laboratory

    Beavercreek, OH · about 45 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (937) 562-7450

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Mount Orab

Which ZIP codes are in Mount Orab: 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.

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