Community Water System · PWSID OH7708812

St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La

Serves 143 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAkron, Ohio
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1994: 16 violations. 4 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-03.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Ohio. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 219952000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Over the limit: 12018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 450% missed or late test · 825% notice or report · 4

Across Ohio, 62% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Nitrate2018-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

16 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2023-10-03Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2021-11-03Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2019-01-25Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-03Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-11-03Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2020-04-01Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-25Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-02-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2011-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  16. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served143
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAkron
EPA ZIP on file44319

Areas served

  • Summit County

Reading this record

St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 143 people in Akron, Ohio. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.