Minster Village

• At $72.00 a quarter for 22,500 gallons, Minster has the lowest water bill of the 71 jurisdictions in the 2026 rate survey it publishes - less than half the $172.15 survey average and about a sixth of the $433.65 high.
• A 90-to-100-foot slab of glacial till separates the ground surface from Minster's aquifer, and the wells are cased through more than 90 feet of it, which is why Ohio EPA calls the source low-susceptibility.
• The village's own water quality report spells the buried valley its wells tap the "Taeys River Valley"; the preglacial river is normally spelled Teays.
• Minster's sewage plant is built for 1.75 million gallons a day in a village of about 3,000 people, because it also takes industrial flow - the village is home to a Dannon yogurt plant described as one of the largest in…
• How many wells Minster has depends on who you ask: five in the 2025 water quality report, seven on the village's water department page, and eight active wells in EPA's facility inventory.

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• 1832Settlement platted as Stallostown, after founder Francis J. Stallo.
• 1836Renamed Minster after Muenster in Westphalia, reflecting the German Catholic settlers.
• 1840sThe Miami and Erie Canal reached Minster, opening it to canal-borne trade.
• 1848Minster passed from Mercer County to the newly created Auglaize County.
• 1878A rail branch line reached Minster from St. Marys; the Nickel Plate Road took it over in 1922 and freight service ran until the late 1960s.
• 2025The village held an unconditional license to operate its water system and reported no MCL or other water-quality-standard violation, per its own consumer confidence report.

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How it is treated

Groundwater from bedrock wells drawing on a carbonate aquifer that the village's CCR places in the "Taeys River Valley" (the usual spelling of the preglacial valley is Teays). Water sits more than 40 feet below the surface and the wells are cased to more than 90 feet. Sources disagree on how many…

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Water pressure

No psi figure is published. Distribution pressure is carried by high-service pumps and the two elevated storage tanks (250,000 and 750,000 gallons) listed as active in EPA's…

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$3.20 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $24 a month for water.

$72.00 per quarter for 22,500 gallons (3,000 cubic feet) of water only, per the 2026 annual rate survey the village posts (rates effective March 1, 2026) - the lowest of the 71…

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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.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Ohio EPA rates the aquifer serving Minster as having low susceptibility to contamination: a 90-to-100-foot confining layer of glacial till lies between the ground surface and the carbonate aquifer, and the village's wells are cased to more than 90 feet below the land surface. The village keeps an emergency interconnection with New Bremen…

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Sanitary

The village owns and operates its own wastewater treatment plant at 155 West First Street, able to treat up to 1.75 million gallons a day of combined domestic and industrial flow; it processed roughly 1.36 MGD on average during 2019. The process is an extended-aeration orbital system: screening, equalization, primary settling, extended…

Storm

Not documented on the village's site. No dedicated stormwater fee or recurring flooding problem was found in the sources checked.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.