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Is Worthington, OH tap water safe?

Columbus Public Water System serves Worthington, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Ohio’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Columbus Public Water System serves Worthington. In EPA’s and Ohio’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 5.3 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Columbus Public Water System is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 98 to 125 mg/L (5.7 to 7.3 grains per gallon). How Ohio’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Columbus Public Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Worthington

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

  • Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.

    Columbus, OH · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 267-4588

  • Ohio Department of Agriculture Consumer Protection Laboratory

    Reynoldsburg, OH · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (614) 728-6230

  • 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

All 76 certified labs for Ohio

ZIP codes in Worthington

Which ZIP codes are in Worthington: 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 Worthington

Other towns in Franklin County with a page of their own.

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