Water system
Crestline Village
EPA ID OH1700112 · Crawford County · 4,525 people served · owned by a local government
Crestline Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Crestline Village as buying its water from Galion City; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Galion City as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 4,525 people · Crawford County
- EPA ID
- OH1700112
About this area's water
Did you know
- Crestline's drinking water is neither drawn nor treated in Crestline: the village's three wells sit at 3348 Milligan Road in Ontario and its treatment plant at 1245 State Route 314 North, both in neighboring Richland…
- Early settlers believed the town stood on the state's watershed divide, where streams to the north drained to Lake Erie and those to the south to the Ohio River — the site was once thought to be the highest point in…
- Crestline was platted in 1852 as a railroad station on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati 'Bee Line', midway between Shelby and Galion, and later became a Pennsylvania Railroad division point.
- In its 2023 UCMR5 round the village detected exactly one unregulated substance — lithium at 24 ppb — and none of the six PFAS compounds sampled under Ohio's PFAS initiative.
Source: crestlineoh.comen.wikipedia.org
History6
- 1852Crestline platted as a railroad station on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (the 'Bee Line'), sited midway between Shelby and Galion.
- 2002Thallium at 1.5 ug/L detected in a source water sample collected November 2, 2002 — the one chemical finding cited in the village's Source Water Assessment summary.
- 2012Public Notification Rule violation opens July 1, 2012 (SDWIS violation code 71, rule 420, Tier 3, not health-based); since resolved.
- 2019Second Public Notification Rule violation opens January 15, 2019 (code 72); still carried as outstanding in federal records.
- 2024Third Public Notification Rule violation opens September 19, 2024 (code 72); resolved.
- 2025Village held an unconditional license to operate its water system; 2025 CCR published June 2026.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Three wells at 3348 Milligan Road in Ontario (Richland County) feed the Crestline Water Treatment Plant at 1245 State Route 314 North, about ten miles east of the village it serves. Raw water is aerated to oxidize iron and manganese and strip dissolved gases, held in a detention tank where chlorine…
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Water pressure
Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor any village utilities page gives a distribution pressure figure or a pressure-zone map.
Source: crestlineoh.comcrestlineoh.com
What it costs
Not published. The village's utility office page sets out billing mechanics only — bills mailed by the 18th, due by 4:30 pm on the 5th, 10% penalty after that, disconnection after…
Source: crestlineoh.comcrestlineoh.com
Water quality & impurities8
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barium Range 0.045-0.045; erosion of natural deposits, drilling wastes, metal refineries. | 0.045 ppm | 2 ppm (MCL) | 2023 |
| Chlorine Range 0.34-1.14; disinfectant residual. | 0.74 ppm | 4 ppm (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.265-0.265; well below the MCL and below the 0.7 ppm optimal fluoridation level. | 0.265 ppm | 4 ppm (MCL) | 2023 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 6.2-17.5; by-product of chlorination, about 15% of the MCL. | 11.9 ppb | 80 ppb (MCL) | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 20 sample sites above the action level. | 0.13 ppm | 1.3 ppm (Action… | 2024 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 20 sample sites above the action level. | 3.3 ppb | 15 ppb (Action… | 2024 |
| Lithium (UCMR5, unregulated) Range 23.1-24; the only unregulated substance detected in Crestline's UCMR5 round. | 24 ppb | no federal… | 2023 |
| PFAS (six compounds, Ohio PFAS… Sampled under Ohio EPA's statewide PFAS sampling initiative; none of the six compounds detected in finished water. | not detected n/a | PFOA/PFOS MCL 4… | 2023 |
Source: crestlineoh.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.3 ppb in 2024 (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).
Supply stress
Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer supplying Crestline as having a moderate susceptibility to contamination, based on a thick protective clay layer over the aquifer, a production depth of more than 75 feet, and no evidence that ground water has been impacted by significant levels of human-caused chemical contaminants —…
Source: crestlineoh.comcrestlineoh.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-owned wastewater treatment plant on Westgate Drive, northwest of the village near Main Street, providing primary and secondary treatment. Rated capacity 0.950 MGD against a normal flow of about 0.6 MGD. The village also publishes a sewer-backup FAQ for residents.
Storm
Not published. No storm sewer or stormwater utility information appears on the village site.
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
- 44827 · Crestline66% 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
Crestline 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 Crestline Village.
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: crestlineoh.com, en.wikipedia.org
History: crestlineoh.com, data.epa.gov, en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: crestlineoh.com
Water pressure: crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com
Rates: crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com
Sewers: crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com
Treatment: crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: crestlineoh.com, crestlineoh.com