{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8502712", "name": "Orrville City", "county": "Wayne", "population": 8452, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Local groundwater wells (Wayne County)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 10, "aquifer": "", "notes": "Orrville draws from 10 active wells; no documented named buried-valley aquifer found for this specific wellfield, so kept as generic local wells per SDWIS GW code.", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH8502712" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Orrville Water Treatment Plant", "la": 40.8467, "lo": -81.7671, "pt": "approximate", "wb": "Buried sand-and-gravel glacial aquifer", "src": "Local groundwater wells (Wayne County)", "cls": "groundwater", "in": [ { "n": "Orrville municipal well field(s) — includes the Park Well…", "wb": "Buried sand-and-gravel glacial aquifer", "role": "primary", "src": "Orrville's raw water is drawn from wells across (per city sources) four separate buried sand-and-gravel wellfields serving ~100 sq mi of eastern Wayne County; the Park Well Field on the city's northwest side is the only one named publicly (10 wells)", "la": 40.8467, "lo": -81.7671, "pt": "approximate", "wells": [ "Well 27", "Well 57", "Well 63", "Well 75", "Well 79", "Well 80", "Well 83", "Well 84", "Well 85", "Well S" ] } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1893", "The first waterworks plant opened with four 8-inch wells, a small boiler and a steam pump. (Orrville Utilities prints the 1893 plant opening ahead of the 1894 board formation; the ordering is the…" ], [ "1894", "A Board of Waterworks Trustees was formed to construct and administer a waterworks for the Village of Orrville." ], [ "1918", "Three additional 10-inch wells were drilled as population and demand grew." ], [ "1923", "Three more 10-inch wells were added, bringing the total to 10 — the same count still in service today." ], [ "1995", "The municipally owned power plant began reusing treated wastewater effluent as cooling water." ], [ "1997", "A $13 million treatment plant capable of treating 3.7 million gallons per day was completed in late 1997." ] ], "treat": "Groundwater from 10 wells in four wellfields — Park (2 wells northwest of town, buried sand and gravel), Beaubien (1 well southeast, sandstone bedrock), Burton City (2 wells, sandstone units) and East (5 wells in Baughman Township, sandstone and conglomerate aquifers) — is softened with alum and…", "press": "Not published. No system psi figure appears in the CCR or on Orrville Utilities' pages. The distribution system is roughly 61 miles of 4- to 16-inch main with two booster stations…", "rate": { "g": 6.36, "n": "Water only, Residential Schedule No. 1 (file dated 11/2022; no effective date is printed on the schedule). Inside city: $18.75 per month capacity-of-service charge for a 3/4-inch…", "m": 50.57 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "34.5", "ppb", "80 ppb", "2025", "Range 34.3-34.5 ppb. Byproduct of chlorination; no violation. Notably less than half Oberlin's level, the usual…" ], [ "Fluoride", "1.05", "ppm", "4 ppm", "2025", "Range 0.82-1.05 ppm. Naturally occurring, with only a small treatment addition." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.22", "ppm", "10 ppm", "2025", "Single result; no range reported. Well below limit." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "1.15", "ppm", "4 ppm (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.05-1.32 ppm." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "2.8", "ppb", "15 ppb (action…", "2023", "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.07", "ppm", "1.3 ppm (action…", "2023", "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level." ], [ "Lithium (unregulated, UCMR 5)", "12.5 (average)", "ppb", "none (no…", "2025", "Range of detections 12-13 ppb. Monitored under the fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule." ], [ "PFAS (six regulated compounds: PFOA…", "below minimum…", "ppt", "n/a (UCMR 5…", "2025", "The CCR states all PFAS tested were below the minimum reporting levels, which is a reporting-limit statement rather…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "East Chestnut Street waterline replacement (South Walnut Street to Briarwood Street)", null, "2026", "under construction", "Contractor selected through competitive bidding; expected completion including final road repairs in fall 2026. No cost published by the utility." ], [ "Wabash Avenue waterline replacement (Penn Avenue to West Market Street)", null, "2026", "under construction", "Contractor selected through competitive bidding; expected completion including final road repairs in fall 2026. No cost published by the utility." ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Groundwater, and comparatively comfortable. Ohio EPA's 2007 susceptibility analysis rates the Beaubien and Burton City wellfields low and the East wellfield moderate — its overlying sediments are thinner in places — within a regional sandstone aquifer, while the Park wellfield draws from a sand and gravel aquifer rated moderate. The CCR…", "sew": { "s": "Orrville Utilities operates its own wastewater plant: primary settling tanks, trickling filters (one 96-foot filter rated 2.0 MGD and two 68-foot filters rated 1.1 MGD each), anoxic tanks, first- and second-stage aeration with settling, tertiary filters, chlorination and post-aeration. Stated design capacity is 4.0 MGD, with bypass…", "st": "Not documented in the utility's published pages." }, "fun": [ "Since 1995 Orrville's wastewater plant has sent more than a billion gallons of treated effluent — about 500,000 gallons a day — to cool the city's own municipally owned power plant.", "On an ordinary day the wastewater plant's discharge makes up more than 90% of the entire flow of Little Chippewa Creek, the stream it discharges into.", "Orrville's groundwater is naturally fluoridated; the plant adds only a small amount to reach EPA levels rather than fluoridating from scratch.", "The 10 wells fan out from town to the Stark County line across four wellfields, drawing from sandstone, conglomerate, and buried sand and gravel.", "The water is softened to 100 mg/L, and the utility tells residents that home water softeners are unnecessary." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/history", "https://www.orrutilities.com/wastewater-plant", "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/water-treatment-process", "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf", "https://www.orrutilities.com/water-treatment-facility" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/water-rates" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/news" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf", "https://www.orrutilities.com/history", "https://www.orrutilities.com/water-treatment-facility" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/wastewater-plant" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.orrutilities.com/wastewater-plant", "https://www.orrutilities.com/sites/default/files/2025%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44667", "share": 0.6311, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8502712.jpg", "caption": "Central downtown Orrville, Ohio", "credit": "Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia", "license": "CC BY 3.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8502712/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8502712.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), \"Orrville City · OH8502712\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8502712/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }