Is Wadsworth, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
Neither of the 2 utilities serving Wadsworth has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records.
Wadsworth 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 Wadsworth’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Wadsworth City PWS
Ohio · serves 24,356 people · about 6,200 in Wadsworth
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Medina Co/Northwest PWS
Ohio · serves 46,324 people · about 260 in Wadsworth
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.6 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Wadsworth
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Wadsworth, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Eurofins Cleveland
Barberton, OH · about 6 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
American Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
Akron, OH · about 11 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
Alliance Technical Group, LLC-Akron
Cuyahoga Falls, OH · about 13 miles
Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity
ZIP codes in Wadsworth
Which ZIP codes are in Wadsworth: 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 Wadsworth
Other towns in Medina County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Wadsworth 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