Water system

North Lewisburg Village

EPA ID OH1100812 · Champaign County · 1,850 people served · owned by a local government

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater

North Lewisburg Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

The system's record

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater
Wells: EPA lists 2 active wells. ODNR well logs locate 1 public-supply well inside North Lewisburg Village's wellhead protection zone, 143 ft deep, in limestone. Zoom in to see them as dots.
Well 1Well 2
Active wells
2
Serves
1,850 people · Champaign County
EPA ID
OH1100812

About this area's water

Did you know
  • North Lewisburg was platted on September 6, 1826 by Gray Gary, who had bought the land from early settler Hezekiah Spain; the village marked its bicentennial in 2026.
  • The village is simultaneously shopping for engineering firms to redesign its water/wastewater systems and revising its water rates with RCAP's help, with a rate ordinance up for three council readings in fall 2026.

Source: northlewisburg.com

History3
  • 1826Gray Gary platted the village on September 6, 1826, after purchasing land from early settler Hezekiah Spain; he named it Lewisburg in honor of General Andrew Lewis.
  • 1844North Lewisburg was formally incorporated as a village.
  • 2026Village marked its bicentennial, 200 years after the 1826 platting.

Source: northlewisburg.comen.wikipedia.org

Treatment & pressure

How it is treated

North Lewisburg treats its own water from 2 groundwater wells.

Water pressure

not published

What it costs

No current per-unit water rate was found. The village is actively revising rates: RCAP (Rural Community Assistance Partnership) held a public water-rate presentation on May 9…

Source: northlewisburg.com

Water quality & impurities1
ContaminantLevelLimitYear
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA's record of 9 sampling rounds, 2016 to 2025. Highest 90th-percentile result 2.5 ppb (2024). Each figure sums up a round of taps, not one tap.
1.3 ppb15 (action level)2025

Source: data.epa.gov

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

6 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 2 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 4 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).

Projects & plans2

Planned or needed

  • Water distribution, wastewater collection, and water/wastewater treatment system design services (engineering… · 2026 · proposed
    Village issued a request for engineering-firm qualifications for these design services; responses were due September 30, 2026.
  • Water rate increase / rate study · 2026 · proposed
    RCAP presented a water-rate study to the village on May 9, 2026; council scheduled three readings (Aug/Sep/Oct 2026) of Ordinance #241G amending the water rate.

Source: northlewisburg.comnorthlewisburg.com

Supply stress

We found no documented drought, capacity, or contamination stress. The village is concurrently soliciting engineering design services for its water/wastewater systems and revising rates with RCAP's help in 2026, suggesting aging infrastructure and an underpriced rate base rather than a supply-quantity problem. EPA SDWIS lists…

Source: data.epa.gov

Sewers

Sanitary

The village's Utilities & Street department (Wastewater Operator: Kevin Cox) runs sanitary sewer collection; we found no published wastewater-treatment-plant name, capacity, or receiving stream.

Source: northlewisburg.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

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

North Lewisburg Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.

No other system is on record buying water from North Lewisburg Village.

What the records show about North Lewisburg Village

Who runs it

EPA's record describes North Lewisburg Village as owned by a local government. It has 750 service connections and serves 1,850 people.

EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.

Its office telephone on EPA's record is 937-747-2200.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.

How the water is treated

EPA's treatment table registers these steps for North Lewisburg Village: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, and sand or media filtration.

The list is what each system registered with EPA for treatment plants EPA still shows as active, and it can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).

Violations

EPA's record shows no health-based violations for North Lewisburg Village since 2015.

EPA logs 6 violations of any kind since 2020: 2 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 4 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) violation records: health-based violations with compliance periods beginning in 2015 or later, all violations from 2020 or later (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).

Lead and copper at the tap

In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at North Lewisburg Village was 1.3 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.

The highest result on file is 2.5 ppb, in the period ending December 2024.

EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for North Lewisburg Village since 2016, the first ending in 2016; no period was above 10 ppb.

Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory North Lewisburg Village sent EPA, 726 lines are counted.

Service lines in the inventory
MaterialLines
Lead0
Galvanized, needing replacement0
Unknown material0
Not lead726
All lines726

Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder. The 90th-percentile result is the level nine in ten of the sampled homes were at or below. Lead comes mostly from service lines and house plumbing, not the source water, so a low result for the system does not clear an old house.

EPA's dashboard status for this inventory: reported all required service line types.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) lead and copper 90th-percentile results (EPA Envirofacts), sampling periods ending 2016 or later; EPA's service line inventory dashboard, Ohio's 2026 Q2 submission.

PFAS

Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of North Lewisburg Village (latest sample August 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.

Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of North Lewisburg Village as sampled, most recently April 2026.

PFAS are the 'forever chemicals' from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026); Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling, 2019 to 2021, and its sampling status map.

Disinfection byproducts

Chlorine that disinfects water also reacts with organic matter to form byproducts. Two groups have federal limits: total trihalomethanes (TTHM, 80 µg/L) and five haloacetic acids (HAA5, 60 µg/L), judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site.

For TTHM, the average of North Lewisburg Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 18.1 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 24.8 µg/L and the highest single sample was 38.5 µg/L, from 13 samples taken from 2013 to 2019.

For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 11.4 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 11.4 µg/L and the highest single sample was 14 µg/L, from 13 samples.

Disinfection byproducts in the distribution system
ByproductLimitLatest yearly averageWorst yearly averageHighest sampleSamples
TTHM80 µg/L18.1 µg/L (2019)24.8 µg/L38.5 µg/L13
HAA560 µg/L11.4 µg/L11.4 µg/L14 µg/L13

A yearly average of 0 means nothing was detected in that year's samples. EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system samples (non-detects counted as zero).

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity

Nitrate was not detected in 8 samples through 2019 (limit 10 mg/L as nitrogen; above 10 is unsafe for infants).

Arsenic: the highest of 2 samples was 5.3 µg/L (limit 10); detections averaged 5.3; none over the limit.

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity in finished water, 2012 to 2019
ContaminantSamplesHighest resultLimitSamples over limit
Nitrate (as nitrogen)8not detected10 mg/L0
Arsenic25.3 µg/L10 µg/L0

Measured in finished water: at the plant's entry points and in the distribution system; raw well and intake samples are left out. Non-detects count as zero.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Solvents and fuels

EPA's file holds results for all six solvent and fuel compounds it checked. Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and vinyl chloride were not detected in 2 samples each.

Solvents and fuels in finished water, 2012 to 2019
CompoundLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
Benzene5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
Carbon tetrachloride5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
1,2-dichloroethane5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
Trichloroethylene (TCE)5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
Vinyl chloride2 µg/L20 of 2not detected0

"Not detected" means the lab's result was below what its method can measure, not that the compound is absent. Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Farm chemicals and metals

EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 2 of 2 samples, highest 118 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 2 samples each.

Herbicides and metals in finished water, 2012 to 2019
SubstanceKindLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
AtrazineFarm chemical3 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
AlachlorFarm chemical2 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
ChromiumMetal100 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
CadmiumMetal5 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
BariumMetal2,000 µg/L22 of 2118 µg/L0
MercuryMetal2 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
SeleniumMetal50 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
ThalliumMetal2 µg/L20 of 2not detected0

Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Bacteria in the pipes

From 2012 to 2019, 1 of 193 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at North Lewisburg Village tested positive (0.52%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 22 did. E. coli was never found in the 1 sample tested for it.

A positive coliform test is a warning sign, not a violation by itself. E. coli is a sign that human or animal waste may have reached the water. Coliform counts are routine samples only; E. coli counts include repeat samples.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system presence/absence tests for total coliform and E. coli.

Fluoride

The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says North Lewisburg Village has fluoride from natural sources at a level higher than what is needed to prevent tooth decay. The level it reports is 1.31 mg/L.

EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at North Lewisburg Village.

Measured fluoride: 1.31 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2017 (above the target); samples ran from 1.23 to 1.31 mg/L across 2 samples in 2012 to 2019.

The recommended level for preventing tooth decay is 0.7 mg/L; the federal limit is 4 mg/L. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched September 2026); EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, entry-point fluoride samples.

Water and sewer bills

Ohio EPA's 2023 rate survey puts the water bill at North Lewisburg Village for a household using 5,000 gallons a month at $546 a year, about $46 a month.

The sewer bill in the same survey is $754 a year at 5,000 gallons a month.

Annual bills, 2023
UseWater, per yearSewer, per year
2,500 gallons a month$328$452
5,000 gallons a month$546$754
8,000 gallons a month$874$1,207

The survey lists it as “North Lewisburg”. These are inside-city rates and annual bills at the use shown.

Source: Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State University, May 2025).

How well the service area is mapped

EPA estimated the service area of North Lewisburg Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.

Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.

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

EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH1100812 (EPA ECHO).

Notable facts: northlewisburg.com

History: northlewisburg.com, en.wikipedia.org

Water quality: data.epa.gov

Planned work: northlewisburg.com, northlewisburg.com

Rates: northlewisburg.com

Sewers: northlewisburg.com

Supply stress: data.epa.gov

Quick answers

Where does North Lewisburg Village get its water?

North Lewisburg Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

How many people does North Lewisburg Village serve?

North Lewisburg Village serves about 1,850 people, and is the main water system for 1 ZIP code.

Who owns North Lewisburg Village?

North Lewisburg Village is owned by a local government.

Is there lead in North Lewisburg Village water?

In 2025 testing, North Lewisburg Village's 90th-percentile lead level in tap samples was 1.3 ppb (the federal action level is 15 ppb). EPA's record of 9 sampling rounds, 2016 to 2025. Highest 90th-percentile result 2.5 ppb (2024). Each figure sums up a round of taps, not one tap.

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