{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH5701812", "name": "New Lebanon Village", "county": "Montgomery", "population": 3770, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 3, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH5701812" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1843", "New Lebanon was platted; a post office called Medill opened in 1847 and was renamed New Lebanon in 1849." ], [ "1878", "The village was incorporated." ], [ "1979", "The village charter took effect on January 1, 1979." ] ], "treat": "The village treats its own groundwater. Per the 2025 Consumer Confidence Report, all drinking water comes from three groundwater production wells located next to the village water treatment plant in the northeast section of the village near Bear Creek, and the village held an unconditional Ohio EPA…", "press": "Not published. No system pressure figure appears in the CCR, on the village water pages, or in Ohio EPA/SDWIS records reviewed.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "No rate schedule is published. The village water page states only that \"Water bills are due monthly and include water, sewer, and trash\" and that bills can be paid online through…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.2", "ppb", "15 ppb action…", "2025", "Below the action level, but the CCR states 1 of 20 sampled sites was above 15 ppb." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.191", "ppm", "1.3 ppm action…", "2025", "0 of 20 sites above the action level." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.922", "ppm", "10 ppm MCL", "2024", "Runoff or leaching from fertilized soil, wastewater or septic systems; about 9% of the MCL." ], [ "Barium", "0.0912", "ppm", "2.0 ppm MCL", "2024", "Erosion of natural deposits." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.026", "ppm", "4.0 ppm MCL", "2024", "Very low - essentially natural background, not an optimized fluoridation level." ], [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "2.5", "ppb", "80 ppb MCL", "2025", "Range 0.00-2.5 ppb; chlorination byproduct." ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "0.000", "ppb", "60 ppb MCL", "2025", "Not detected." ], [ "Total chlorine", "2.22", "ppm", "4 ppm MRDL", "2025", "Range 0.57-3.86 ppm." ], [ "Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate", "0.26", "ppb", "6 ppb MCL", "2025", "Discharge from rubber and chemical factories." ], [ "Gross alpha", "0.275", "pCi/L", "15 pCi/L MCL", "2024", "The 2025 CCR publishes a correction: the 2024 report had misprinted this as 2.75 pCi/L." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "No drought, yield or capacity data is published. The Ohio EPA source water assessment quoted in the CCR rates the aquifer's susceptibility to contamination as low, citing a thick protective clay layer, an aquifer more than 80 feet below the surface, and no evidence of significant human-caused chemical contamination. Nitrate at 0.922 ppm…", "sew": { "s": "The village bills water, sewer and trash together on one monthly utility bill, so New Lebanon handles its own sanitary sewer billing. No wastewater plant name, capacity or receiving stream is published on the village site.", "st": "Not published." }, "fun": [ "The village's wells tap an aquifer more than 80 feet down beneath a thick clay layer, which Ohio EPA's source water assessment says gives it a low susceptibility to contamination.", "The 2025 report corrects the prior year's homework: it tells readers the 2024 CCR listed gross alpha as 2.75 pCi/L when the actual result was 0.275 pCi/L.", "Small-system reality check - the lead paragraph of New Lebanon's 2025 CCR still says \"The Village of Farmersville is responsible for providing high quality drinking water,\" a leftover from the template it was built from.", "In 2025 one of 20 lead-and-copper sampling sites came back above the 15 ppb lead action level, yet the system's 90th-percentile result was just 1.2 ppb - a reminder that lead risk in this system is house-by-house…" ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lebanon,_Ohio" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/Documents/Departments/Water/Water-Reports/2025%20CCR.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH5701812/JSON", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH5701812/JSON" ], "rates": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/departments/water/index.php", "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/government/approved_ordinances_amended_charter.php" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/Documents/Departments/Water/Water-Reports/2025%20CCR.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/LCR_SAMPLE_RESULT/PWSID/OH5701812/JSON" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/Documents/Departments/Water/Water-Reports/2025%20CCR.pdf", "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/departments/water/water_reports.php" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/departments/water/index.php" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.newlebanonoh.gov/Documents/Departments/Water/Water-Reports/2025%20CCR.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45345", "share": 0.6078, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH5701812.jpg", "caption": "Main Street in New Lebanon, Ohio", "credit": "Nyttend", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH5701812/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH5701812.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), \"New Lebanon Village · OH5701812\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH5701812/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }