Is Wintersville, OH tap water safe?
The short answer
2 of the 5 utilities serving Wintersville have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Ohio’s records: City of Steubenville and Jefferson Co W and S District - A.
Wintersville Village 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 Wintersville’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Wintersville Village PWS
Ohio · serves 3,924 people · about 770 in Wintersville
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Steubenville
Ohio · serves 17,000 people · about 480 in Wintersville
1 result above the legal limit and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 60.2 ppb, above the legal limit.
4 health-based violations since 2016
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Jefferson Co W and S District - A
Ohio · serves 2,635 people · about 410 in Wintersville
1 result above the action level and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Copper at 1.6 ppm, above the action level.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Jefferson Co W and S District - M
Ohio · serves 13,983 people · based in Wintersville
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.6 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Jefferson Co.San.Dist. - G PWS
Ohio · serves 990 people · based in Wintersville
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.2 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Wintersville
The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to Wintersville, 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 41 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
Canton Water Laboratory
Canton, OH · about 44 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics
Canton City Health Department
Canton, OH · about 44 miles
Certified for bacteria
Which ZIP codes are in Wintersville: 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 Wintersville
Other towns in Jefferson County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Wintersville Village 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