{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH2000212", "name": "Hicksville Village", "county": "Defiance", "population": 3600, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (4 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 4, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH2000212" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1835-1836", "The Hicks Land Company, led by Henry W. Hicks, platted the community that became Hicksville." ], [ "1871", "Hicksville incorporated as a village." ], [ "1987", "Current water treatment plant placed online on January 19." ], [ "2002", "Ohio EPA completed a susceptibility analysis of Hicksville's drinking water source in November, finding low susceptibility to contamination." ], [ "2006", "Current wastewater treatment plant (orbal oxidation ditch) became operational." ], [ "2025", "Village failed to sample for HAA5 and TTHM in the designated August window; later samples were non-detect." ] ], "treat": "Groundwater is aerated to strip dissolved iron and hydrogen sulfide, held in a 25,000-gallon detention tank for chlorination, then run through four pressure filters (200 sq ft total) to remove oxidized iron before entering distribution. The distribution system has roughly 23 miles of water main…", "press": "Not published. The system relies on two elevated tanks (400,000 and 250,000 gallons) for distribution pressure; no psi figures or pressure-zone map are published.", "rate": { "g": 5.85, "n": "2026 schedule, effective with bills sent in January 2026. Inside the village: water $14.81 monthly base plus $5.85 per 1,000 gallons; sewer $30.00 base plus $11.27 per 1,000…", "m": 38.21 }, "imp": [ [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.6", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2025", "No action level exceedance, but the CCR records that 1 out of 21 individual samples was above the 15 ppb lead action…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.143", "ppm", "1.3 ppm (action…", "2025", "No samples above the copper action level." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "0.4", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 0.3-1.9 ppm." ], [ "Nitrate", "0", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Not detected." ], [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "16.1", "ppb", "80", "2024", "Range 5.4-16.1 ppb, from the 2024 revised table carried in the 2025 CCR. The 2025 samples taken outside the required…" ], [ "Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "2.8", "ppb", "60", "2024", "Range 2.8-4.6 ppb, from the 2024 revised table." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.15", "ppm", "4", "2020", "Naturally occurring plus water additive; monitored less than annually." ], [ "Barium", "0.0756", "ppm", "2", "2020", "Well below the MCL." ], [ "Monitoring/reporting violation", "1", "violation", "", "2025", "During August 2025 Hicksville failed to sample for HAA5 and TTHM in the designated time window; the disinfection…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Columbia St./Hattery St. Water Main Replacement", null, "2026", "planned", "Bids received by the Defiance County Commissioners on behalf of Hicksville until June 29, 2026. Scope: replace the existing 4-inch water main along Columbia St…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Low. Ohio EPA's November 2002 susceptibility analysis, reprinted in the village's 2025 CCR, found the aquifer supplying Hicksville has a low susceptibility to contamination on four grounds: a thick protective layer of low-permeability material overlies the aquifer; there is significant depth of aquifer cover (over 115 feet below ground…", "sew": { "s": "Village-owned wastewater treatment plant, operational since 2006, using an orbal oxidation ditch, two clarifiers, alum treatment and UV disinfection, with routine lab testing for CBOD5, suspended solids and ammonia. Treated water is returned to Mill Creek, which flows into the Maumee River - the drinking water source for the City of…", "st": "The village maintains roughly 25 miles of combined, sanitary and storm sewers, and publishes annual Combined Sewer Overflow reports for 2023, 2024 and 2025, confirming the system includes combined sewers. Specific overflow volumes and outfall locations were…" }, "fun": [ "Hicksville has a permanent line in American literature: in chapter 33 of Mark Twain's 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer claims to be a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio.", "The village's treated wastewater flows into Mill Creek and on to the Maumee River - the same river that supplies drinking water to the city of Defiance downstream.", "The current water plant has been running since January 19, 1987, and Ohio EPA rates the aquifer beneath it as having low susceptibility to contamination thanks to more than 115 feet of protective cover." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicksville,_Ohio", "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/water/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/wastewater-treatment-plant/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-WQR.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/water/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-WQR.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/water/" ], "rates": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-Rates.pdf", "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/" ], "impurities": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-WQR.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/advertisement-for-bid-for-water-main-replacement/" ], "water_stress": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-WQR.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/wastewater-treatment-plant/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-Rates.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicksville,_Ohio", "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/wastewater-treatment-plant/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/utility-department/water/", "https://villageofhicksville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-WQR.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43526", "share": 0.579, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH2000212.jpg", "caption": "Historic postcard of High Street, Hicksville, Ohio", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2000212/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH2000212.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Hicksville Village · OH2000212\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2000212/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }