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Is Winesburg, OH tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Winesburg, 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 2 utilities serving Winesburg has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: Mount Eaton Village PWS.

Winesburg Area Development Corporation, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.8 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Winesburg Area Development Corporation is very hard, typically 220 mg/L (12.9 grains per gallon). How Ohio’s water compares.

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 Winesburg’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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Winesburg

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

  • Ream & Haager Laboratories, Inc.

    Dover, OH · about 11 miles

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

    (330) 343-3711

  • Edenridge Laboratory, Ltd.

    Millersburg, OH · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 893-2933

  • Canton City Health Department

    Canton, OH · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (330) 489-3231

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Winesburg

Which ZIP codes are in Winesburg: 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 Winesburg

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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