{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH7901612", "name": "Tcmsd-wilkshire Hills", "county": "Tuscarawas", "population": 6587, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 2, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH7901612" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1778", "Fort Laurens, Ohio's only Revolutionary War fort, is built near the site of present-day Bolivar." ], [ "1830", "Bolivar is platted as part of the growth generated by the Ohio and Erie Canal, long before any public water system existed here." ], [ "1973", "The Tuscarawas County Metropolitan Sewer District is formed by the county commissioners; it operates water service under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6103." ], [ "2020", "Ohio EPA completes the Source Water Assessment for the Wilkshire Hills groundwater supply, rating its susceptibility to contamination as High." ], [ "2025", "TCMSD holds an unconditioned license to operate the Wilkshire Hills system and pumps just over 202 million gallons across its three water systems." ], [ "2026", "A third Wilkshire Hills groundwater well is under construction and scheduled to go into service; new water and sewer rates take effect January 1." ] ], "treat": "Groundwater from two wells next to the Wilkshire Hills Water Treatment Facility, one of three treatment plants TCMSD operates. Finished water is chlorinated (2025 residual 1.09 ppm, range 0.92-1.17) and distributed over roughly 90 miles of district water main with 10 storage tanks and booster pump…", "press": "Not published. TCMSD publishes no pressure zones or psi figures on tcmsd.org or in its 2025 water quality report.", "rate": { "g": 6.35, "n": "TCMSD retail water rates effective January 1, 2026: $23.97 monthly base charge for a 5/8-inch residential meter plus $6.35 per 1,000 gallons; larger meters $32.54 (3/4-inch) up to…", "m": 49.37 }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "4.77", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Range of detections 4.66-4.77; far below the MCL." ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "12.5", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 6.61-12.5." ], [ "Chlorine", "1.09", "ppm", "MRDL 4", "2025", "Range 0.92-1.17." ], [ "Nitrate", "2.13", "ppm", "10", "2025", "" ], [ "Fluoride", "1.19", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Range 1.00-2.79. TCMSD's table labels the fluoride row 'ppb', but the MCL it prints (4) is the 4 ppm fluoride MCL, so…" ], [ "Barium", "0.07", "ppm", "2", "2025", "" ], [ "Chromium", "2.25", "ppb", "100", "2025", "" ], [ "Selenium", "1.41", "ppb", "50", "2025", "" ], [ "Combined radium", "0.23", "pCi/L", "5", "2025", "" ], [ "Gross alpha emitters", "1.04", "pCi/L", "15", "2022", "Sampled less often than yearly, as Ohio EPA allows." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Lead and Copper Rule service line inventory", null, "2025", "completed", "Inventory maintained and viewable at the district office. Wilkshire Hills has some service lines of unknown material and fewer than 10 galvanized lines…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Third Wilkshire Hills groundwater well", null, "2026", "under construction", "Stated in the 2025 water quality report as under construction and scheduled to go into service in 2026. No cost published." ], [ "Water transmission line connecting Wilkshire Hills to the City of Canton", null, "", "planned", "Listed in the 2025 report's capital improvement paragraph as a secondary source of water in an emergency. No cost or date published." ], [ "Replacement of aging water lines", null, "", "proposed", "The district says these are all dependent on obtaining adequate grants and loans. No cost or date published." ] ], "stress": "Ohio EPA rated the Wilkshire Hills groundwater supply's susceptibility to contamination High in its 2020 Source Water Assessment - a statement about vulnerability, not current quality; the 2025 results show no MCL exceedances and an unconditioned license to operate, and EPA records show a single monitoring violation in 1995, resolved in…", "sew": { "s": "TCMSD's Wilkshire Hills wastewater treatment plant, rated 750,000 gallons per day, serves Bolivar, Hunters Green, the Lawrence Township Industrial Park, Wilkshire Hills and Zoar. District-wide TCMSD runs 73 miles of sewers, 24 major pump stations and about 550 septic tank systems for roughly 10,000 residents. Monthly sewer rates…", "st": "Not published. Neither TCMSD nor the county publishes storm sewer information for Bolivar or Wilkshire Hills." }, "fun": [ "The utility's own address is 9944 Wilkshire Boulevard NE - the water system is named for the subdivision its office and treatment plant sit in.", "TCMSD pumped just over 202 million gallons of drinking water in 2025 and puts the replacement value of its water and sewer assets at about $170 million.", "The Village of Bolivar buys its water from the Wilkshire Hills system through two master meters, so a canal town platted in 1830 drinks from two wells drilled beside a 20th-century subdivision.", "Fort Laurens, the only Revolutionary War fort built in Ohio, went up near Bolivar in 1778.", "The 2025 water quality report had to be reissued on 5/14/2026 to delete a duplicate nickel entry that had been printed twice in the Wilkshire Hills table." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/about-us", "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivar,_Ohio" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://www.tcmsd.org/about-us" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://www.tcmsd.org/rates-and-policies" ], "rates": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/rates-and-policies", "https://www.tcmsd.org/recent-news" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH7901612/JSON" ], "projects": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf" ], "planned": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH7901612/JSON" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/about-us", "https://www.tcmsd.org/rates-and-policies" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.tcmsd.org/about-us", "https://www.tcmsd.org/documents/1018/TCMSD-WQR-2025_Revised_20260514.pdf", "https://www.tcmsd.org/water-quality-report", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivar,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44612", "share": 0.5326, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44697", "share": 0.4038, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7901612.jpg", "caption": "Canal Street in downtown Bolivar, Ohio, served by the Wilkshire Hills groundwater well system", "credit": "Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant)", "license": "CC BY-SA 2.5" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7901612/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH7901612.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), \"Tcmsd-wilkshire Hills · OH7901612\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7901612/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }