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, and we found no CCR or engineering report online describing the 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.
Water quality & impurities4
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile) EPA's record of 9 sampling rounds, 2016 to 2025. Highest 90th-percentile result 5.7 ppb (2022). Each figure sums up a round of taps, not one tap. | 0.6 ppb | 15 (action level) | 2025 |
| Lead and copper tap sampling First-round lead and copper tap sampling missed or reported late, per EPA; not a test result. | 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… |
| Water quality report / byproduct testing Two open violations for an inadequate yearly water quality report (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: 1 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 1 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
Supply stress
Small (513-person, 218-connection) groundwater system with a long, well-documented pattern of monitoring/reporting lapses in EPA SDWIS: missed first-round lead and copper tap sampling 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
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.
What the records show about Gettysburg Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Gettysburg Village as owned by a local government. It has 218 service connections and serves 513 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 937-459-0488.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Gettysburg Village: aeration, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, and ion-exchange softening.
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 Gettysburg Village since 2015.
EPA logs 2 violations of any kind since 2020: 1 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 1 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 Gettysburg Village was 0.6 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 5.7 ppb, in the period ending December 2022.
EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg Village sent EPA, 221 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 36 |
| Not lead | 185 |
| All lines | 221 |
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 Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg Village as sampled, most recently February 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 Gettysburg Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 50.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 65.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 85.9 µg/L, from 38 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 19.6 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 22.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 32.3 µg/L, from 38 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 50.7 µg/L (2019) | 65.6 µg/L | 85.9 µg/L | 38 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 19.6 µg/L | 22.6 µg/L | 32.3 µg/L | 38 |
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: the highest of 11 samples was 0.33 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2018; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 2 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 11 | 0.33 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 2 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
| Combined radium | 1 | not detected | 5 pCi/L | 0 |
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.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
"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 97.5 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 2 samples each.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 2 | 2 of 2 | 97.5 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
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, 0 of 103 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Gettysburg Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did.
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 Gettysburg Village has fluoride from natural sources at the recommended level for preventing tooth decay. The level it reports is 0.69 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Gettysburg Village.
Measured fluoride: 0.68 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2017 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.57 to 0.68 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.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Gettysburg 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.
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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH1900512 (EPA ECHO).
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
