Winding Creek Estates

What EPA’s and Ohio’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves: 57 people
Connections: 26
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Newark, OH
County: Licking
Owner: Private

The ZIP code it serves

43055

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Ohio’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Ohio’s own results, samples taken from July 28, 2020 to Aug. 19, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.0ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 6

2025, one sample: 3.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 4.0 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 3.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 3.4 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.12ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.12 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”

5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Arsenic
Chromium (total)
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Lead
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Ohio’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Winding Creek Estates’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.
Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.
What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.
Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Ohio’s results run from July 28, 2020 to Aug. 19, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Winding Creek Estates’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Ohio certifies.

The 3 labs Ohio certifies closest to the area Winding Creek Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Ohio Department of Agriculture Consumer Protection Laboratory
Reynoldsburg, OH · about 24 miles
Certified for bacteria
(614) 728-6230
Coshocton Environmental Testing, LLC
Coshocton, OH · about 28 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
(740) 622-3328
Benchmark Environmental Labs, Inc.
Columbus, OH · about 34 miles
Certified for bacteria
(614) 267-4588