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Is Niles, OH tap water safe?

Niles City PWS serves Niles, 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

Niles City PWS serves Niles. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 9.0 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Niles City PWS’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Niles

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

  • Mahoning County Board of Health

    Youngstown, OH · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 270-2855

  • Cardinal Environmental Lab, LLC

    Youngstown, OH · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (330) 797-8844

  • Portage County Water Resources

    Ravenna, OH · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (330) 297-3685

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Niles

Which ZIP codes are in Niles: 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 Niles

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

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