{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH6200712", "name": "Elmore Village", "county": "Ottawa", "population": 1421, "producer": false, "source_class": "erie", "label": "Lake Erie", "bodies": [ "Lake Erie" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH6200712", "OH6205011" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1851", "Village surveyed and platted on October 2, 1851, in the drained Great Black Swamp region along the Portage River (confirmed via Wikipedia)." ], [ "1950s", "Ohio Turnpike construction bypassed the village, leaving abandoned motels/restaurants along former US Route 20." ], [ "1997", "A new Ohio Turnpike interchange near Elmore spurred renewed development." ], [ "2014", "Village built a new oxidation-ditch wastewater treatment plant (confirmed via village utilities page)." ], [ "October 2024", "Elmore completed a 4.38-mile, 12-inch waterline connection to Ottawa County Regional Water (a Lake Erie surface-water treatment plant) and switched its water supply, ending reliance on its four prior…" ] ], "treat": "Elmore now buys finished water from Ottawa County Regional Water, which draws Lake Erie water through a submerged intake and treats it before distribution; the county's water is fluoridated and chlorine-disinfected (confirmed via both the Elmore and Ottawa County 2025/2026 CCRs). The county report…", "press": "Not published. One elevated storage tower provides 200,000 gallons of holding capacity for the distribution system (confirmed verbatim via the village's own utilities page).", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Elmore's own water/sewer rate ordinance was not found on the village site or in its amlegal.com codified ordinances (which returned a 403 error) during this or the prior research…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "18.9", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Elmore village 2025 CCR lists 'maximum level found' as 18.9 ppb but a detection range of 16.3-75.8 ppb in the same row…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "7.5", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 2.2-9.5 ppb. Elmore village CCR; by-product of chlorination." ], [ "Gross Alpha emitters", "2.84", "pCi/L", "15", "2025", "Elmore village CCR; erosion of natural deposits." ], [ "Lead (90th pct.)", "0", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025", "Elmore CCR: 0 of 10 samples over the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th pct.)", "0.042", "ppm", "1.3 (AL)", "2025", "Elmore CCR: 0 of 10 samples over the action level. Added; not in prior draft." ], [ "Fluoride (at plant tap)", "1.19", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Ottawa County Regional plant 2026 CCR (Elmore's supplier); range 0.88-1.19 ppm. Confirmed verbatim." ], [ "Nitrate", "2.98", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Ottawa County Regional plant CCR; range <0.2-2.98 ppm. Confirmed verbatim." ], [ "Lead", "1 of 30 samples…", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025", "Ottawa County Regional plant CCR; 90th percentile value was 0. Confirmed verbatim." ], [ "PFAS (6-chemical panel)", "ND", "n/a", "n/a", "2020", "EPA sampling of the Ottawa County Regional (Lake Erie) source found no detects. Confirmed verbatim; note this specific…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Waterline connection to Ottawa County Regional Water", null, "2024", "completed", "4.38-mile, 12-inch main extension; replaced Elmore's four local wells with purchased Lake Erie water. Substantially completed 10/21/2024." ], [ "Oxidation-ditch wastewater treatment plant", null, "2014", "completed", "Current sewer treatment technology for the village." ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Supply risk shifted in October 2024 from four local wells (which no longer met 300-foot isolation-distance requirements) to a large regional Lake Erie plant; 2025 county CCR data shows no violations and confirms microcystins are explicitly listed among substances 'NOT FOUND' in the water. Western Lake Erie's known harmful-algal-bloom…", "sew": { "s": "Village-owned sanitary sewer treated at an oxidation-ditch plant built in 2014; no consent decree or CSO issues identified in sources reviewed.", "st": "Village issues separate storm-sewer service applications, implying a separated storm system; no specific flooding data found." }, "fun": [ "Elmore switched its entire water supply from four local wells to purchased Lake Erie water via a new 4.38-mile pipeline that went live in October 2024, after the wells fell out of compliance with 300-foot…", "The village's electric utility (AMP) delivers power over a 69kV Toledo Edison transmission line to two substations serving about 930 meters across 15 miles of distribution line.", "Ottawa County's regional treatment plant ran over 39,000 raw/process/finished water tests in 2025 confirming full compliance; separate EPA testing in 2020 found zero detections across a 6-chemical PFAS panel in the Lake…" ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore,_Ohio", "https://www.presspublications.com/stories/elmore-change-to-county-water-system-completed,33897", "https://village.elmore.oh.us/village_of_elmore/village_utilities/index.php" ], "treatment": [ "https://webgen1files1.revize.com/elmoreoh/Documents/Village%20of%20Elmore/2025%20-%20VOE%20CCR.pdf", "https://co.ottawa.oh.us/Archive.aspx?ADID=235" ], "pressure": [ "https://village.elmore.oh.us/village_of_elmore/village_utilities/index.php" ], "impurities": [ "https://webgen1files1.revize.com/elmoreoh/Documents/Village%20of%20Elmore/2025%20-%20VOE%20CCR.pdf", "https://co.ottawa.oh.us/Archive.aspx?ADID=235" ], "projects": [ "https://www.presspublications.com/stories/elmore-change-to-county-water-system-completed,33897" ], "water_stress": [ "https://co.ottawa.oh.us/Archive.aspx?ADID=235" ], "sewer": [ "https://village.elmore.oh.us/village_of_elmore/village_utilities/index.php" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://village.elmore.oh.us/village_of_elmore/village_utilities/index.php", "https://co.ottawa.oh.us/Archive.aspx?ADID=235" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43416", "share": 0.5164, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH6200712.jpg", "caption": "Entering the village of Elmore, Ohio", "credit": "David Wilson", "license": "CC BY 2.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6200712/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6200712.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), \"Elmore Village · OH6200712\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6200712/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }