Is Peninsula, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
2 of the 5 utilities serving Peninsula have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Cuyahoga Falls City PWS and Akron City PWS.
Cuyahoga Falls City PWS, 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 Peninsula’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Cuyahoga Falls City PWS
Ohio · serves 51,114 people · about 310 in Peninsula
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Cleveland Public Water System
Ohio · serves 1.3 million people · under 100 in Peninsula
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: moderately hard on average, 117 mg/L (6.8 grains per gallon), ranging from 105 to 130 mg/L.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Hudson Estates PWS
Ohio · serves 410 people · under 100 in Peninsula
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.3 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: very hard, 252 mg/L (14.7 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Akron City PWS
Ohio · serves 280,000 people · under 100 in Peninsula
1 result above the legal limit, 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5) at 52.1 ppb, above the legal limit.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Indian Springs
Ohio · serves 136 people · under 100 in Peninsula
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Peninsula
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Peninsula, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Alliance Technical Group, LLC-Akron
Cuyahoga Falls, OH · about 4 miles
Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity
EnviroScience
Stow, OH · about 7 miles
American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
Akron, OH · about 11 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
ZIP codes in Peninsula
Which ZIP codes are in Peninsula: 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 Peninsula
Other towns in Summit County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Cuyahoga Falls City PWS’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