Water system
Elida Village
EPA ID OH0200503 · Allen County · 4,109 people served · owned by a local government
Elida Village buys its water from Lima City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Auglaize River, Ottawa River, Bresler Lake Reservoir, Williams Reservoir, Ferguson Reservoir, Metzger Lake Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- Ferguson Lake Reservoir
Bresler Reservoir
Auglaize River
Lost Creek Reservoir
Ottawa River
Twin Lakes Reservoir - Serves
- 65,619 people · Allen County
- EPA ID
- OH0200811
West-side reservoirs (Bresler, Williams) are filled from the Auglaize River; east-side reservoirs (Ferguson, Metzger, Lost Creek, Twin Lakes) are filled from the Ottawa River; no wells or purchased water.
About this area's water
Did you know
- The water in Elida's taps is stored before it is treated: Lima banks it in five upground reservoirs holding roughly 14 to 15 billion gallons, filled by pumping from the Ottawa and Auglaize Rivers instead of drawing…
- Lima's newest reservoir, Williams (2012, 5.2 billion gallons), holds more water on its own than the three original East Side reservoirs - Lost Creek, Metzger and Ferguson - put together (about 4.29 billion gallons).
- Before it reaches Elida, the water passes a bank of ten rapid sand filters packed with anthracite coal, sand and support gravel, plus four granular activated carbon filters - and then Elida aerates and re-chlorinates it…
History6
- 1918Lost Creek reservoir (893 million gallons) built as the first of Lima's East Side upground reservoirs, fed from the Ottawa River - the complex that now supplies Elida's purchased water.
- 1946Metzger reservoir (1.2 billion gallons) added to Lima's East Side reservoir complex.
- 1958Ferguson reservoir (2.2 billion gallons) completed, finishing the East Side complex.
- 1970Bresler reservoir (4.92 billion gallons) built on Lima's West Side system, fed from the Auglaize River.
- 2012Williams reservoir (5.2 billion gallons), Lima's largest, completed on the West Side complex.
- 2022Elida reported as a recipient of Ohio state financing for wastewater system improvements (July 2022), indicating Elida operates its own wastewater system rather than being folded into Lima's.
Source: limaohio.govnews.google.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Elida treats no raw water. SDWIS lists the facility 'CC FROM LIMA CITY' - a permanent consecutive connection buying filtered surface water from the City of Lima (PWSID OH0200811) - feeding an elevated tank, high-service pumps and Elida's distribution system. Elida does add its own treatment on the…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.govlimaohio.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No distribution pressure figure was found for Elida or for Lima's delivery to it.
What it costs
Not found. No Village of Elida website resolved (elidaohio.org, elidaohio.com, elidaohio.gov, villageofelida.com all fail DNS; villageofelida.org returns 403), and no rate…
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Lima City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.087 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2022Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.086 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2016Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 0 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
Elida's supply rests entirely on Lima's off-stream storage: five upground reservoirs filled by pumping from the Ottawa and Auglaize Rivers rather than by direct continuous river withdrawal, with Lima's own pages giving a total of 15 billion gallons on its water supply page and about 14.3 billion gallons on its treatment process page.…
Sewers
Sanitary
Elida appears to run its own wastewater system rather than discharging into Lima's: it was reported in July 2022 as receiving Ohio state financing for wastewater improvements. No Elida sewer rate schedule, plant capacity or outfall detail was retrievable, and the earlier draft's Lima wastewater figures (13 MGD plant on Ft. Amanda Road…
Storm
Not published for Elida. Combined-sewer-overflow facts previously listed here belong to the City of Lima and were removed.
Source: news.google.comlimaohio.gov
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 45807 · American Township and Lima33% of residents
Population-weighted resident shares; a ZIP code can have more than one system on record. Recomputed from each ZIP's own system list, not from the map's cached footprint.
Buys from · Sells to
Elida Village buys its water from Lima City.
No other system is on record buying water from Elida Village.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code in all.
Sources
U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Notable facts: limaohio.gov, limaohio.gov, data.epa.gov
History: limaohio.gov, news.google.com
Sewers: news.google.com, limaohio.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, limaohio.gov, limaohio.gov
Supply stress: limaohio.gov, limaohio.gov, data.epa.gov