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The…" ], [ "2022", "Council Ordinance #849, passed 12/13/2022, adopted a 5-year rate-increase appendix of 2 percent per year running 2023-2027 for water and sewer, with each year's schedule effective February 1." ], [ "by 2025", "New radio water meters were installed and the installing technicians visually inspected and documented each service line's material; the 2025 CCR reports the distribution system has no lead, no…" ] ], "treat": "Four groundwater wells at Deep Cut Road and Refugee Street feed a plant using gravity iron and manganese filtration, ion exchange water softening, and chlorination. The plant is rated to produce one million gallons of water per day.", "press": "Not published. The 2025 CCR gives no service pressure, pressure-zone or storage-tank figures, and no other village document located states one.", "rate": { "g": 6.88, "n": "Village of Millersport 2026 Water Rates schedule, adopted under Ordinance #849 (passed 12/13/2022) with its 5-year 2%-per-year appendix for 2023-2027; effective February 1. Water…", "m": 36.65 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "72.9", "ppb", "MCL 80", "2025", "The CCR prints the amount detected (72.9) ABOVE the top of its own stated range of detections (51.2-69.7 ppb) -- an…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "13.9", "ppb", "MCL 60", "2025", "Range 5.3-11.7 ppb; disinfection by-product, well under the limit." ], [ "Chlorine", "0.8975", "ppm", "MRDL 4", "2025", "Range 0.68-1.15 ppm; residual disinfectant. Omitted from the earlier draft." ], [ "Arsenic", "0.90", "ppb", "MCL 10", "2025", "Range ND-0.90 ppb; erosion of natural deposits. Far below the MCL." ], [ "Barium", "0.187", "ppm", "MCL 2", "2023", "No range reported. Omitted from the earlier draft." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.205", "ppm", "MCL 10", "2025", "Range ND-0.205 ppm; well below the MCL." ], [ "Nitrite", "0.17", "ppm", "MCL 1", "2024", "Range 0.01-0.17 ppm; well below the MCL." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.02", "ppm", "MCL 4", "2023", "No range reported; naturally occurring plus water additive." ], [ "Toluene", "0.0001", "ppm", "MCL 1", "2023", "No range reported; discharge from petroleum factories. Omitted from the earlier draft." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "ND", "ppb", "AL 15", "2023", "Range ND-0.60 ppb; 0 of 10 sites above the action level; no lead service lines in the distribution system." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Radio water meter installation program", null, "by 2025", "completed", "New radio water meters were installed and the installing technicians visually inspected and documented each service line's material, which is how the village…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Low. Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer as having low susceptibility to contamination because the source water sits about 75 feet below ground surface beneath roughly 70 feet of clay, sand and gravel, which limits contaminant movement from the surface. The plant is rated at 1 million gallons per day for a system serving…", "sew": { "s": "The Village of Millersport Public Works runs its own sanitary sewer utility, billed on the same schedule as water: $30.46 per month for the first 2,000 gallons in town and $10.06 per additional 1,000, $34.48 and $10.35 out of town, with sewer-only customers billed $56.72 on an assumed 4,500 gallons. A $100 sewer tap inspection fee…", "st": "No separate stormwater utility or fee appears on the village's 2026 water and sewer fee schedule, and no village document located describes a stormwater program or drainage projects." }, "fun": [ "The village grew up as a canal port, and a well-preserved stretch of the Ohio-Erie Canal still cuts through the center of town.", "Millersport hosts the Sweet Corn Festival the weekend before Labor Day, which the village describes as the second-largest festival in the state of Ohio; proceeds fund civic groups including Lions Club eyeglasses for…", "Buckeye Lake began as a swamp the pioneers called Buffalo Licks, was impounded as the Licking Reservoir to feed the canal, and is now a 3,557-acre recreation lake.", "The water department reads as a family operation: the 2025 CCR lists John Wood and Chase Wood as the contacts for the four-well system.", "The drinking water sits about 75 feet down under roughly 70 feet of clay, sand and gravel -- the reason Ohio EPA rates this aquifer low-susceptibility while most Ohio systems its size carry a higher rating." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://millersportohio.com/history/", "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Water-Sewer-rates-26.png", "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Water-Sewer-rates-26.png", "https://millersportohio.com/water-fees" ], "impurities": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Water-Sewer-rates-26.png", "https://millersportohio.com/water-fees" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://millersportohio.com/history/", "https://millersportohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Millersport-Web-Report-1.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43046", "share": 0.3496, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH2301212.jpg", "caption": "Downtown Millersport, Ohio along Lancaster Street (State Route 204)", "credit": "Nyttend", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2301212/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH2301212.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), \"Millersport Village · OH2301212\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2301212/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }