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Is Shawnee Hills, OH tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Shawnee Hills, 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 Shawnee Hills has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Columbus Public Water System.

Del - Co Water Company, Inc., which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: PFOA at 4.2 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Shawnee Hills’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 Del - Co Water Company, Inc.’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Water testing near Shawnee Hills

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

  • Superior Laboratories

    Galloway, OH · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 870-6826

  • MASI Laboratory

    Plain City, OH · about 15 miles

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

    (614) 873-4654

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Shawnee Hills

Which ZIP codes are in Shawnee Hills: 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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