{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8701611", "name": "North Baltimore Village", "county": "Wood", "population": 3432, "producer": true, "source_class": "river", "label": "Rocky Ford Creek (via North Baltimore upground reservoirs)", "bodies": [ "Rocky Ford Creek", "North Baltimore Reservoir No. 1", "North Baltimore Reservoir No. 2" ], "intakes": [ "Reservoir", "Rocky Ford" ], "wells": 0, "aquifer": "", "notes": "Village fills two upground reservoirs from Rocky Ford Creek (a Portage River tributary), matching SDWIS 'INTAKE ROCKY FORD 2' and the two named reservoirs.", "urls": [ "https://snoflo.org/reservoir/ohio/oh00777-north-baltimore-ug-res-no-1-2" ], "chain": [ "OH8701611" ], "plants": [ { "n": "North Baltimore Water Treatment Plant", "la": 41.1684, "lo": -83.6666, "pt": "approximate", "wb": "Rocky Ford Creek", "src": "Rocky Ford Creek (via North Baltimore upground reservoirs)", "cls": "river", "in": [ { "n": "Rocky Ford Creek intake", "wb": "Rocky Ford Creek", "role": "primary", "src": "Creek intake/pump station north of the village that supplies the North Baltimore upground reservoirs", "la": 41.1684, "lo": -83.6666, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "North Baltimore Upground Reservoir No. 1", "wb": "Reservoir No. 1 (off-stream, filled from Rocky Ford Creek)", "role": "storage", "src": "Earthen upground reservoir completed 1969, part of the paired storage basins fed by Rocky Ford Creek that supply the plant", "la": 41.1684, "lo": -83.6666, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "North Baltimore Upground Reservoir No. 2", "wb": "Reservoir No. 2 (off-stream, filled from Rocky Ford Creek)", "role": "storage", "src": "Second paired earthen upground reservoir fed by Rocky Ford Creek, combined capacity 1,228 acre-feet with Reservoir No. 1", "la": 41.1684, "lo": -83.6666, "pt": "approximate" } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1876", "North Baltimore was incorporated as a village; the village seal reads 'ESTD 1876' and the village marked its sesquicentennial with the NB 150 Festival in June 2026." ], [ "1969", "The two North Baltimore upground reservoirs were completed - earthen embankments up to 24 feet high and about 7,200 feet long, engineered by Floyd G. Browne & Associates, per the National Inventory…" ], [ "2025", "Council adopted Resolution No. 30-2025 authorizing the village administrator to apply for and enter into an Ohio EPA Water Supply Revolving Loan Account agreement for planning, design and/or…" ], [ "2026", "Construction of the village's lead service line replacement project was scheduled to begin in mid-September, per the village administrator's September 2026 report to council." ] ], "treat": "Surface water from a single intake on Rocky Ford Creek is pumped into two offstream upground reservoirs and then treated at the village's lime-softening plant, which uses upflow clarifiers to settle out contaminants, followed by filtration and chlorination. Plant treatment capacity is 1,658,000…", "press": "Not published. Neither the 2023 nor the 2025 consumer confidence report, nor the village water and sewer department page, gives a distribution pressure or pressure-zone…", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published. The village's water and sewer department page carries a bill-pay portal, a service line inventory and staff contacts, but no rate schedule, and no current rate…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "70.48", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Highest running annual average; range of individual detections 28.3-69.4 ppb. This is the system's closest approach to…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "25.50", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 13.3-25.43 ppb." ], [ "Total chlorine", "2.12", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.68-2.23 ppm." ], [ "Nitrate", "1.36", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Range 0.0-1.36 ppm." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.86", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Range 0.8-1.11 ppm." ], [ "Barium", "0.029", "ppm", "2", "2025", "" ], [ "Turbidity", "0.19", "NTU", "0.3 NTU in 95%…", "2025", "Highest recorded 2025 result; 100% of monthly samples met the turbidity limit. Range 0.01-0.19 NTU." ], [ "Total organic carbon (removal ratio)", "2.2", "ratio", "1.0 (treatment…", "2025", "Ratio of TOC actually removed to TOC required to be removed; range 1.9-2.5, so the plant is comfortably in compliance." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0.0", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2025", "One of 20 samples had any detectable lead; zero of 20 exceeded the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.015", "ppm", "1.3 (action…", "2025", "Range 0.0-0.021 ppm; 0 of 20 samples above the action level." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Lead service line replacement project", null, "2026", "under construction", "Village administrator's report to the September 8, 2026 council meeting states construction was planned to begin in mid-September 2026. No cost or funding…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Reservoir stormwater improvement project", null, "2026", "proposed", "Council adopted Resolution No. 24-2026 as an emergency authorizing an Ohio Public Works Commission application for the village park and reservoir stormwater…" ], [ "Water facilities planning/design/construction under an Ohio EPA WSRLA loan", null, "2025", "proposed", "Resolution No. 30-2025 authorized the village administrator to apply for and enter into a WSRLA agreement for water facilities. The available minutes summary…" ] ], "stress": "The system depends entirely on one intake on Rocky Ford Creek - a small stream whose two tributaries rise north of McComb and northeast of Findlay and converge south of State Route 18 by the Birch Run golf course - pumped into two upground reservoirs. The CCR notes that Ohio treats all surface water as susceptible to contamination and…", "sew": { "s": "The village runs its own sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment plant, funded through a Sewer Operating fund and a Sewer Capital Projects fund and served by a Sewer Equipment Replacement Reserve; August 2026 warrants include a sewer plant surge suppressor, a sewer plant server, and blanket payments for trash and sludge hauling…", "st": "The village operates a separate storm sewer utility with its own Storm Sewer Operating fund, and in 2026 was preparing Ohio Public Works Commission applications for stormwater improvement projects at the village park and at the reservoir. No system…" }, "fun": [ "North Baltimore does not dam its creek - it pumps from a single Rocky Ford Creek intake into two upground (offstream) reservoirs, whose embankments run about 7,200 feet and are rated a high hazard potential dam in the…", "The village's plant is a lime-softening plant with upflow clarifiers, and it runs at only about 38% of its 1.658 million gallon per day capacity.", "Not one of the twenty homes sampled in 2025 exceeded the lead or copper action level, and only one had any detectable lead at all - yet the village still began replacing lead service lines in September 2026.", "Of the six PFAS compounds now federally regulated, all were non-detect in four rounds of 2025 sampling; the only PFAS the village found at all was unregulated PFBA, at a few thousandths of a unit.", "The village turned 150 in 2026 and threw the NB 150 Festival that June." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf", "https://snoflo.org/reservoir/ohio/oh00777-north-baltimore-ug-res-no-1-2", "https://citizenportal.ai/articles/8193334/ohio/wood-county/north-baltimore/ohio/wood-county/north-baltimore/Ohio/Wood-County/North-Baltimore/North-Baltimore-council-approves-WSRLA-loan-application-for-water-projects" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/2025_consumer_confidence_report_final.doc", "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/2023_consumer_confidence_report_final.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/2025_consumer_confidence_report_final.doc", "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/water-sewer-department" ], "rates": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/water-sewer-department", "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/2025_consumer_confidence_report_final.doc" ], "projects": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf" ], "planned": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf", "https://citizenportal.ai/articles/8193334/ohio/wood-county/north-baltimore/ohio/wood-county/north-baltimore/Ohio/Wood-County/North-Baltimore/North-Baltimore-council-approves-WSRLA-loan-application-for-water-projects" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/2025_consumer_confidence_report_final.doc", "https://snoflo.org/reservoir/ohio/oh00777-north-baltimore-ug-res-no-1-2" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/2025_consumer_confidence_report_final.doc", "https://snoflo.org/reservoir/ohio/oh00777-north-baltimore-ug-res-no-1-2", "https://www.northbaltimore.gov/sites/default/files/2026-09/9.8.2026_council_packet.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45872", "share": 0.8282, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8701611.jpg", "caption": "Rocky Ford on Rocky Ford Creek in Wood County, Ohio, North Baltimore's water source", "credit": "Tim Kiser", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8701611/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8701611.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), \"North Baltimore Village · OH8701611\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8701611/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }