Water system
Gettysburg Village
EPA ID OH1900512 · Darke County · 513 people served · owned by a local government
Gettysburg Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 513 people · Darke County
- EPA ID
- OH1900512
About this area's water
Did you know
- Gettysburg's public water system serves 513 people through just 218 service connections - about 2.4 people per hookup, typical of a small single-family village.
- The system's single point of contact in federal records is one person (the village administrator), who doubles as the water system's registered operator/contact - common for utilities this small.
- Federal compliance records for this system stretch back to 1994, giving roughly a 30-year monitoring/violation history for a village of only about 500 residents.
Source: data.epa.gov
History5
- 1820sSettled in the late 1820s by settlers from Adams County, Pennsylvania.
- 1842Formally platted by John Hershey; named for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Adams County, PA seat.
- 1865-04-30Abraham Lincoln's funeral train passed through the village en route to Springfield, Illinois.
- 1922Local businessman Ira Petersime invented the electric poultry incubator here; his company became one of the world's largest incubator manufacturers before closing in 2006.
- 1980Village population peaked at about 545 before a long decline (461 at the 2023 estimate; the water system serves 513 people per EPA SDWIS).
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Not published. SDWIS lists the source only as groundwater from 2 wells with no treatment-plant detail in federal records; no CCR or engineering report was found online to confirm disinfection method.
Source: data.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published; no CCR, pressure-zone map, or engineering report for Gettysburg was found online.
What it costs
Not published online; village water billing/ordinance not found in a public source.
Water quality & impurities4
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (individual tap samples, Lead &… 9 samples in EPA SDWIS LCR data, all well under the federal action level; exact sample year not given in the export. | 0-0.0057 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L… | undated |
| Total Coliform Rule Procedural monitoring/reporting violations, not confirmed positive coliform detections. | 3… n/a | n/a | 1994-199… |
| TTHM / HAA5 (Stage 2 Disinfectants and… SDWIS logs these as monitoring/reporting violations, not measured MCL exceedances; no concentration values found. | 4… n/a | 0.080 mg/L TTHM… | Q4 2015… |
| Public Notification Rule / Stage 2 DBP… Two open public-notification violations (Dec 2019, Dec 2025) and one open HAA5 monitoring violation (Q4 2025)… | 3 violations… n/a | n/a | 2019-12… |
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.6 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
Small (513-person, 218-connection) groundwater system with a long, well-documented pattern of monitoring/reporting lapses in EPA SDWIS: Total Coliform Rule violations in 1994-95, Stage 2 DBP (TTHM/HAA5) monitoring violations in Q4 2015 and Q1 2018 (all later resolved), and three still-open violations as of December 2025…
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not confirmed online; no wastewater treatment plant or NPDES permit for Gettysburg Village was located. Very small Darke County villages of this size commonly run a small package plant or rely partly on septic - unconfirmed here.
Storm
Not published.
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
- 45328 · Gettysburg91% 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
Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg 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
Notable facts: data.epa.gov
History: en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov