Water system
Blanchester Village
EPA ID OH1400111 · Clinton County · 4,243 people served · owned by a local government
Blanchester Village treats its own water from Whitacre Run, Stonelick Creek & West Fork East Fork Little Miami River reservoirs.
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Blanchester Village as buying its water from Western Water Company; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Western Water Company as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Water bodies
- Whitacre Run Reservoir, Westboro Reservoir, Blanchester Reservoirs 1 & 2, Stonelick Creek
- Raw intakes
- Blanchester Reservoir
Blanchester Westboro Reservoir
Blanchester Stonelick Cr
Blanchester Whitacre Run Reservoir
Blanchester Whiter Run - Serves
- 4,243 people · Clinton County
- EPA ID
- OH1400111
Small village system drawing from multiple small local reservoirs/creeks (Whitacre Run, Stonelick Creek) in the East Fork Little Miami River basin; no single dominant named lake.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Blanchester's drinking water comes from three small streams and impoundments — Whitacre Run, Stonelick Creek and the West Fork of the East Fork Little Miami River — rather than one dominant reservoir.
- The village has been treating its own water continuously since 1924.
- Its backup is a chain of other people's water: three emergency taps into the private Western Water Company, which itself draws on wells in the Little Miami River aquifer, Brown County Rural Water from the Ohio River…
- In 2025 the village sampled for 52 different contaminants; most were never detected, and its only violation on federal record dates to October 2017.
Source: blanvillage.comdata.epa.gov
History6
- 1832Blanchester laid out by Joseph and John Blancett and named for them.
- 1880-1890The village's largest population increase, 51.3%, during its railroad-era expansion.
- 1924The village began treating its own water — a century of continuous local treatment, still cited in its consumer confidence reports.
- 2017-2018The only violation on the system's federal record: a non-health-based monitoring/reporting violation covering October 2017, returned to compliance on 3 October 2018.
- 2020 (Mar)The historic Bindley Block building downtown burned down.
- 2025The village held an unconditional license to operate its water system and did not draw on its Western Water emergency taps at all during the year.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Surface water drawn from intakes on Whitacre Run, Stonelick Creek and the Westboro / West Fork of the East Fork Little Miami River is filtered and disinfected with chlorine (residual 1.2-1.5 ppm in 2025). Total organic carbon removal, a treatment-technique requirement, ran at a ratio of 1.8-2.2…
Source: blanvillage.com
Water pressure
Not published. No psi or pressure-zone data appears in the 2025 CCR or on the village website.
Source: blanvillage.comblanvillage.com
What it costs
Not published. No per-1,000-gallon rate, minimum charge or typical bill appears in the CCR or on the Board of Public Affairs page, which lists only utility deposits — residential…
Source: blanvillage.comblanvillage.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Highest four-quarter running average; range printed in the CCR as 42.7-54.0 ppb; no violation. | 55.4 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Four-quarter running average; range 25.4-45.0 ppb; no violation. | 40.0 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Turbidity Highest recorded result of the year 0.28 NTU; range 0.02-0.28; 100% of samples met the limit. The CCR's table lists 0.2… | 0.28 NTU | TT (0.3 NTU in… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 20 sites over the action level. | 0.153 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 20 sites over the action level. | 1.1 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2025 |
| Chlorine Water additive used to control microbes; range 1.2-1.5 ppm. | 1.4 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio) Range 1.8-2.2; a value above 1 means the system meets TOC removal requirements. | 1.8 ratio | TT (must exceed… | 2025 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits; drilling waste and metal refinery discharge. | 0.035 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Erosion of natural deposits / water additive; no violation. | 0.18 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Cyanide Typical source: steel/metal or plastics/fertilizer factory discharge; no violation. | 1.0 ppb | 200 | 2025 |
Source: blanvillage.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Projects & plans1
Recent and current work
- Lead and Copper Rule service line material inventory · completed
The village compiled the required service line inventory; it can be viewed at the Board of Public Affairs office, 318 East Main Street, or by calling the water…
Source: blanvillage.com
Supply stress
Blanchester's intakes are surface water, and Ohio treats all surface water as highly susceptible to contamination by default — such sources are readily accessible and can be reached by chemicals or pathogens with little warning. The village's own drinking water source protection area contains leaking underground storage tanks, runoff…
Source: blanvillage.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Water, sewer and electric are run together by the elected Board of Public Affairs from the Light, Water and Sewer office at 318 East Main Street; the board charges a $100 residential sewer deposit per meter. The wastewater plant name, capacity and receiving stream are not published in any reachable source.
Storm
Not documented in available sources.
Source: blanvillage.comblanvillage.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
- 45107 · Blanchester45% 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
Blanchester 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 Blanchester 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
Blanchester Village's own pages: dam.assets.ohio.gov
Notable facts: blanvillage.com, data.epa.gov
History: blanvillage.com, en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Water quality: blanvillage.com
Water pressure: blanvillage.com, blanvillage.com
Capital projects: blanvillage.com
Rates: blanvillage.com, blanvillage.com
Sewers: blanvillage.com, blanvillage.com
Treatment: blanvillage.com
Supply stress: blanvillage.com