Is Tallmadge, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Tallmadge has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Akron City PWS.
Tallmadge 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 Tallmadge’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Tallmadge City PWS
Ohio · serves 18,394 people · about 13,500 in Tallmadge
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Akron City PWS
Ohio · serves 280,000 people · about 1,100 in Tallmadge
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
Water testing near Tallmadge
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Tallmadge, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
EnviroScience
Stow, OH · about 5 miles
American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
Akron, OH · about 6 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
Alliance Technical Group, LLC-Akron
Cuyahoga Falls, OH · about 7 miles
Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity
ZIP codes in Tallmadge
Which ZIP codes are in Tallmadge: 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 Tallmadge
Other towns in Summit County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Tallmadge 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