{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8702503", "name": "Tontogany Village", "county": "Wood", "population": 400, "producer": false, "source_class": "river", "label": "Maumee River (via Bowling Green Reservoir)", "bodies": [ "Maumee River", "Bowling Green Reservoir" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH8702503", "OH8700311" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1855/1874", "Platted in 1855 and incorporated as a village in 1874 (confirmed via Wikipedia). Its later development of a distribution system fed entirely by purchased Bowling Green water, rather than its own…" ], [ "2001-2007", "Bowling Green's water system carried a Public Notification Rule ('Other', rule 420) violation beginning July 1, 2001, not resolved until June 14, 2007 — confirmed via EPA SDWIS violation records for…" ], [ "2019-2021", "Bowling Green logged three monitoring/reporting violations: July-Dec 2019 (resolved June 30, 2020), Sept 2020 (resolved Oct 31, 2020), and July-Dec 2020 (resolved June 30, 2021) — confirmed via EPA…" ], [ "2026", "Bowling Green Water Treatment Plant completed upgrades: rebuilt all six rapid sand filter underdrains with added air backwash, and added two microfiltration trains to better utilize its…" ], [ "2026", "Bowling Green failed to maintain required corrosion-control orthophosphate levels (≥1.5 mg/L) on 29 days during the January-June 2026 monitoring period; a Drinking Water Notice (PWSID OH8700311…" ] ], "treat": "Tontogany buys 100% of its finished drinking water from the City of Bowling Green and redistributes it — it has no wells, treatment plant, or water source of its own (confirmed on the village's own utilities page). Bowling Green draws surface water from the Maumee River into a 170-million-gallon…", "press": "Not published for Tontogany specifically; no pressure-zone or PSI data was found for either Tontogany's distribution system or Bowling Green's supply to it, across the village's…", "rate": { "g": 16.24, "n": "This is Tontogany's own posted rate (confirmed directly on tontoganyohio.gov/utilities, not Bowling Green's rate), effective May 1, 2026: in-town minimum $32.41 covers the first…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "66.6", "ppb", "80 (MCL)", "2025", "Range of detection 34.3-85.7 ppb across the system; no violation. Confirmed exactly in Bowling Green's 2025 CCR, which…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "23.1", "ppb", "60 (MCL)", "2025", "Chlorination byproduct; range 8.3-27.7 ppb; no violation. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Nitrate (as Nitrogen)", "7.3", "ppm", "10 (MCL)", "2025", "Detected up to 7.3 ppm (range <0.2-7.3); attributed to agricultural runoff; no violation. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Total Chlorine (residual disinfectant)", "1.5", "ppm", "4.0 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.3-1.6 ppm; no violation. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "<4", "ppb", "15 (Action…", "2025", "0 of 31 samples exceeded the lead action level. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.029", "ppm", "1.3 (Action…", "2025", "0 of 31 samples exceeded the copper action level. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.10", "NTU", "0.3 (TT)", "2025", "Range 0.02-0.10 NTU; 100% of samples met the standard. Confirmed in the CCR." ], [ "Orthophosphate (corrosion control)", "out of range on…", "mg/L…", "≥1.5 mg/L…", "2026", "Jan-June 2026 corrosion-control treatment violation triggering a Drinking Water Notice and increased lead/copper…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Rapid sand filter rebuild (Bowling Green WTP)", null, "2026", "completed", "All six rapid sand filters at the Bowling Green plant had underdrains rebuilt and air added to the backwash cycle; benefits Tontogany as a wholesale customer.…" ], [ "Microfiltration train addition (Bowling Green WTP)", null, "2026", "completed", "Two new microfiltration trains were added to improve use of the plant's reverse-osmosis membranes. Confirmed in the 2025 CCR. No cost figure was found in any…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Corrosion control corrective action plan", null, "2026", "planned", "Bowling Green must submit a written explanation and prevention plan to Ohio EPA by September 10, 2026 after 29 days of out-of-range orthophosphate dosing in…" ] ], "stress": "Tontogany has no water source of its own — it is entirely dependent on Bowling Green's Maumee River supply and treatment, and on the Northwestern Water & Sewer District for sewer billing. Any Bowling Green supply or treatment problem, such as the confirmed 2026 corrosion-control lapse, passes directly to Tontogany customers. This framing…", "sew": { "s": "Tontogany does not operate its own sanitary sewer treatment plant; the village bills residents on behalf of the Northwestern Water & Sewer District for sewer service — confirmed directly on the village's own utilities page. No specific wastewater plant name, capacity, or consent decree was found anywhere.", "st": "Not documented on any available village or county source." }, "fun": [ "Tontogany buys 100% of its drinking water from the City of Bowling Green and simply redistributes it — it has no wells or treatment plant of its own.", "Bowling Green stores its Maumee River water in a 170-million-gallon above-ground reservoir before treating it through two parallel systems: conventional filtration and reverse-osmosis membrane treatment.", "In August 2026, Bowling Green had to send a formal Drinking Water Notice after 29 days of low corrosion-control chemical dosing earlier that year — not an emergency, but it required extra lead and copper testing.", "Tontogany bills a separate monthly 'water line maintenance fee' that scales from $15 for a household meter up to $600 for a 6-inch industrial meter, on top of its metered consumption rate." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontogany,_Ohio", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH8700311/JSON", "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF", "https://tontoganyohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Drinking-Water-Notice.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/utilities", "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF" ], "rates": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/utilities" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF" ], "projects": [ "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF" ], "planned": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Drinking-Water-Notice.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/utilities", "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF", "https://tontoganyohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Drinking-Water-Notice.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/utilities" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://tontoganyohio.gov/utilities", "https://www.bgohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6013/2025-Drinking-Water-Consumer-Confidence-Report-PDF", "https://tontoganyohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Drinking-Water-Notice.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43565", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43402", "share": 0.0016, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8702503.jpg", "caption": "Street-level view of Tontogany, Ohio at Main and Broad streets", "credit": "Photo by and ©2010 Dustin M. 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