Water system
Sardinia Village
EPA ID OH0801511 · Brown County · 952 people served · owned by a local government
Sardinia Village buys its water from Brown County Rural Water.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Ohio River Aquifer (sand-and-gravel river-valley aquifer)
- Active wells
- 13
- Serves
- 32,090 people · Brown County
- EPA ID
- OH0802012
13 wells draw from the Ohio River Aquifer, a sand-and-gravel river-valley aquifer; Brown County's shale bedrock yields little groundwater elsewhere, making this the only viable aquifer for the area.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Despite drawing no water of its own today, the village runs its own sewer plant and used to run its own water plant too — EPA records show Sardinia's original surface-water intake (on its own reservoir and White Oak…
Source: data.epa.gov
History5
- 1830Location established as a post village of Brown County in Washington Township.
- 1833Village of Sardinia laid out on the East Fork White Oak Creek in Washington Township, Brown County.
- 1860Village recorded about 200 residents, with roughly 1,300 in surrounding Washington Township.
- 2000-2013Sardinia's own surface-water system — an intake on Sardinia Village Reservoir and White Oak Creek, plus its treatment/storage assets — was deactivated in stages, after which the village became a…
- presentSardinia now buys finished, treated groundwater wholesale from Brown County Rural Water (two active purchase connections in SDWIS) rather than treating its own; no treatment processes are registered…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Sardinia does not treat its own water. It purchases already-treated finished water from Brown County Rural Water (PWSID OH0802012, sourced from groundwater) via two active interconnections, and distributes it through village mains. Its own former surface-water intake and treatment plant were…
Source: data.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published — no pressure figure found in available EPA SDWIS records or on the village website; village office can be reached at 937-446-3807 for details.
What it costs
$18.06 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $136 a month for water.
Per the village's own utilities page (rates as of 2/1/2026): water base rate $34.00/month covers up to 2,000 gal, then $18.06 per 1,000 gal for 2,001-10,000 gal and $16.07 per…
Source: villageofsardinia.com
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile, Lead and Copper… Well below the EPA action level across all three most recent 3-year monitoring cycles (2016-18, 2019-21, 2022-24). | 0.0013 mg/L | 0.015 | 2022-202… |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.3 ppb in 2024 (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 · Brown County Rural Water (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.7 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Supply stress
No health-based drinking water violations on record. SDWIS shows three violations (Dec. 2023 monitoring, Dec. 2023 'other', and a July 2025 reporting violation), all administrative rather than contamination events. As a wholesale customer of Brown County Rural Water, Sardinia's supply reliability depends on that regional system.
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
The Village of Sardinia operates its own sewer/wastewater treatment plant (confirmed on the village's own website), separate from its purchased-water arrangement for drinking water.
Storm
Not published — no information found on a separate stormwater utility or known flooding issues.
Source: villageofsardinia.com
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
- 45155 · Mowrystown100% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 45171 · Sardinia18% 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
Sardinia Village buys its water from Brown County Rural Water.
No other system is on record buying water from Sardinia Village.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 ZIP codes 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: data.epa.gov
History: villageofsardinia.com, data.epa.gov
Water quality: data.epa.gov
Rates: villageofsardinia.com
Sewers: villageofsardinia.com
Treatment: data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov