{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH2201212", "name": "Milan Village", "county": "Erie", "population": 1371, "producer": false, "source_class": "erie", "label": "Lake Erie (Sandusky Bay backup intake)", "bodies": [ "Lake Erie", "Sandusky Bay" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH2201212", "OH2200603", "OH2201411" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1817", "Milan founded by Ebenezer Merry on the site of Petquotting, a former Moravian Indian mission village (1805-1809)." ], [ "1833", "Village incorporated as Milan (originally platted as \"Beatty\"); construction begins on the Milan Canal to Lake Erie." ], [ "1839", "Milan Canal opens to lake navigation on July 4, connecting the village directly to Lake Erie." ], [ "1847", "Milan reaches its peak as one of the busiest Great Lakes grain-shipping ports; roughly 60 ships were built in Milan between 1840 and 1867." ], [ "1868", "The canal's feeder dam fails in a flood, permanently ending the canal era as railroads had already bypassed the village in the 1850s." ], [ "2017", "In September, the Village of Milan elected to purchase treated water from Erie County (Perkins District) rather than operate its own plant, and began decommissioning its water treatment facility." ] ], "treat": "Milan treats none of its own water. Since September 2017 the village has purchased finished, treated water from the Erie County Water Distribution System (Perkins District), which in turn purchases treated Lake Erie water wholesale from the City of Sandusky's Big Island Water Treatment Plant…", "press": "No psi figure is published in Milan's CCR or on the village or Erie County sites. The 2024 CCR does note the village's finished water is stored/distributed via a 500,000-gallon…", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "No published water rate schedule for Milan was located on the village site, in its municipal code excerpts found via search, or in state rate surveys reviewed this session. Not…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.84", "ppm", "1.35 (action…", "2024", "0 of 10 Village of Milan samples above the action level. Source: Village of Milan 2024 CCR." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.3", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2024", "0 of 10 Village of Milan samples above the action level." ], [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "32.0", "ppb", "80", "2024", "Range 7.1-53.7 ppb across the year; no violation." ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "22.2", "ppb", "60", "2024", "Range 12.6-39.3 ppb; no violation." ], [ "Total Chlorine residual", "1.1", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2024", "Range 0.8-1.3. Milan's own CCR table prints the unit as \"ppb,\" which is almost certainly a typo for ppm/mg-L given the…" ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "Per Milan's 2024 CCR, Ohio EPA source-water assessments for both the Sandusky and Huron intakes call the Lake Erie source area susceptible to contamination from municipal sewage treatment plants, industrial wastewater, combined sewer overflows, home sewage discharges, open-water dredge disposal, and spills from commercial…", "sew": { "s": "Not determined this session -- no source located identifying Milan Village's wastewater treatment provider, plant capacity, or receiving stream (the Huron River runs through the village, so it is a plausible receiving water, but this is not confirmed).", "st": "Not determined this session; no information found on stormwater management, combined sewers, or flooding history." }, "fun": [ "Milan was built on the site of Petquotting, an abandoned Moravian Indian mission village (1805-1809), before Ebenezer Merry founded the town in 1817.", "The Milan Canal (1839-1868) briefly made the inland village one of the busiest grain-shipping ports on the Great Lakes, before an 1868 flood destroyed its feeder dam and railroads had already bypassed the town, freezing…", "Milan no longer treats a drop of its own drinking water: in September 2017 the village decommissioned its treatment plant and switched to buying finished water from Erie County, which itself buys wholesale from the…", "In 2024 Milan completed the lead service line inventory required nationwide under the updated Lead and Copper Rule." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://milanohio.gov/departments/", "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan,_Ohio" ], "treatment": [ "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://milanohio.gov/departments/", "https://milanohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2024.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44846", "share": 0.3877, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44857", "share": 0.0006, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH2201212.jpg", "caption": "Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie, the backup intake source for Milan Village's water system", "credit": "Chris Light", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2201212/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH2201212.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), \"Milan Village · OH2201212\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2201212/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }