Water system
Hicksville Village
EPA ID OH2000212 · Defiance County · 3,600 people served · owned by a local government
Hicksville Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (4 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 4
- Serves
- 3,600 people · Defiance County
- EPA ID
- OH2000212
About this area's water
Did you know
- Hicksville has a permanent line in American literature: in chapter 33 of Mark Twain's 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer claims to be a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio.
- The village's treated wastewater flows into Mill Creek and on to the Maumee River - the same river that supplies drinking water to the city of Defiance downstream.
- The current water plant has been running since January 19, 1987, and Ohio EPA rates the aquifer beneath it as having low susceptibility to contamination thanks to more than 115 feet of protective cover.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgvillageofhicksville.comvillageofhicksville.com
History6
- 1835-1836The Hicks Land Company, led by Henry W. Hicks, platted the community that became Hicksville.
- 1871Hicksville incorporated as a village.
- 1987Current water treatment plant placed online on January 19.
- 2002Ohio EPA completed a susceptibility analysis of Hicksville's drinking water source in November, finding low susceptibility to contamination.
- 2006Current wastewater treatment plant (orbal oxidation ditch) became operational.
- 2025Village failed to sample for HAA5 and TTHM in the designated August window; later samples were non-detect.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgvillageofhicksville.comvillageofhicksville.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater is aerated to strip dissolved iron and hydrogen sulfide, held in a 25,000-gallon detention tank for chlorination, then run through four pressure filters (200 sq ft total) to remove oxidized iron before entering distribution. The distribution system has roughly 23 miles of water main…
Source: villageofhicksville.comvillageofhicksville.com
Water pressure
Not published. The system relies on two elevated tanks (400,000 and 250,000 gallons) for distribution pressure; no psi figures or pressure-zone map are published.
Source: villageofhicksville.com
What it costs
$5.85 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $38 a month for water.
2026 schedule, effective with bills sent in January 2026. Inside the village: water $14.81 monthly base plus $5.85 per 1,000 gallons; sewer $30.00 base plus $11.27 per 1,000…
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile) No action level exceedance, but the CCR records that 1 out of 21 individual samples was above the 15 ppb lead action… | 1.6 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) No samples above the copper action level. | 0.143 ppm | 1.3 ppm (action… | 2025 |
| Total Chlorine Range 0.3-1.9 ppm. | 0.4 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Not detected. | 0 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 5.4-16.1 ppb, from the 2024 revised table carried in the 2025 CCR. The 2025 samples taken outside the required… | 16.1 ppb | 80 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 2.8-4.6 ppb, from the 2024 revised table. | 2.8 ppb | 60 | 2024 |
| Fluoride Naturally occurring plus water additive; monitored less than annually. | 1.15 ppm | 4 | 2020 |
| Barium Well below the MCL. | 0.0756 ppm | 2 | 2020 |
| Monitoring/reporting violation During August 2025 Hicksville failed to sample for HAA5 and TTHM in the designated time window; the disinfection… | 1 violation | 2025 |
Source: villageofhicksville.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.6 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
12 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 12 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans1
Recent and current work
- Columbia St./Hattery St. Water Main Replacement · 2026 · planned
Bids received by the Defiance County Commissioners on behalf of Hicksville until June 29, 2026. Scope: replace the existing 4-inch water main along Columbia St…
Source: villageofhicksville.com
Supply stress
Low. Ohio EPA's November 2002 susceptibility analysis, reprinted in the village's 2025 CCR, found the aquifer supplying Hicksville has a low susceptibility to contamination on four grounds: a thick protective layer of low-permeability material overlies the aquifer; there is significant depth of aquifer cover (over 115 feet below ground…
Source: villageofhicksville.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-owned wastewater treatment plant, operational since 2006, using an orbal oxidation ditch, two clarifiers, alum treatment and UV disinfection, with routine lab testing for CBOD5, suspended solids and ammonia. Treated water is returned to Mill Creek, which flows into the Maumee River - the drinking water source for the City of…
Storm
The village maintains roughly 25 miles of combined, sanitary and storm sewers, and publishes annual Combined Sewer Overflow reports for 2023, 2024 and 2025, confirming the system includes combined sewers. Specific overflow volumes and outfall locations were…
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
- 43526 · Hicksville58% 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
Hicksville 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 Hicksville 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
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History: en.wikipedia.org, villageofhicksville.com, villageofhicksville.com, villageofhicksville.com
Water quality: villageofhicksville.com
Water pressure: villageofhicksville.com
Capital projects: villageofhicksville.com
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Sewers: villageofhicksville.com, villageofhicksville.com
Treatment: villageofhicksville.com, villageofhicksville.com
Supply stress: villageofhicksville.com