Water system
Erie Co. Huron East District
EPA ID OH2200403 · Erie County · 1,713 people served · owned by a local government
Erie Co. Huron East District buys its water from Huron City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie
- Raw intakes
- Huron Lake Erie
- Serves
- 6,893 people · Erie County
- EPA ID
- OH2201011
Single intake in Lake Erie, no wells or purchased water.
About this area's water Huron City
Did you know
- Huron's intake crib sits about 2,200 feet out in Lake Erie and feeds the plant by gravity through a 36-inch concrete pipe -- no raw water pumping until the water is already onshore.
- The city runs its own municipal electric utility, Huron Public Power, alongside water and stormwater, while sanitary sewer is handled by Erie County.
- Huron is a wholesaler as well as a retailer: Ohio EPA records the plant serving about 3,600 city connections plus water sold to the Erie County Water and Sewer District.
- The planned new water tower is a 111-foot, 2-million-gallon tank replacing a 500,000-gallon one -- a fourfold jump in elevated storage, justified largely by the need to keep producing through a Lake Erie algal bloom.
- Huron was home port to commercial fishing fleets and a major iron ore and limestone dock -- the first iron ore cargo landed at the Wheeling and Lake Erie docks on May 21, 1884 -- before lake pollution decimated the…
Source: files.cityofhuron.orghuronohio.usfiles.cityofhuron.org
History4
- 1909The City of Huron established its own water department and built its first filtration plant.
- 1957The original waterworks was abandoned and a new filtration plant commissioned; that 1957 plant, since expanded and upgraded several times, is still the city's plant.
- 2024The city completed its lead service line inventory and posted the downloadable list on the water department page.
- 2025Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and Finding of No Significant Impact on July 29 for a new 2.0-million-gallon elevated storage tank, to be financed through the Water Supply Revolving…
Source: huronohio.usfiles.cityofhuron.orgfiles.cityofhuron.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Raw water flows by gravity through a 36-inch concrete intake pipe from a submerged crib about 2,200 feet out into Lake Erie, through a screen into a raw water wet well at the shoreline plant (500 Cleveland Road West). From the wet well it is pumped to a flash mix where ACH coagulant is added…
Source: files.cityofhuron.orgfiles.cityofhuron.org
Water pressure
Not published. The city's water page mentions a 20 psi threshold only in the context of the Ohio EPA boil-advisory protocol -- the pressure below which an advisory is triggered --…
What it costs
$4.22 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $58 a month for water.
Ordinance No. 2022-55, adopted November 8, 2022 and effective January 1, 2023: $3.16 per 100 cubic feet for residents and $3.48 per 100 cubic feet for non-residents. At 748…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Detected 7/1/2025; range 24.7-53.4 ppb. No violation. | 53.4 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Detected 7/1/2025; range 16.6-34.2 ppb. | 16.6 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.79-1.0 ppm. | 1.0 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range <0.10-1.56 ppm. | 1.56 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Barium Range 0.02-0.02 ppm. | 0.02 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Chlorine (total) Range 1.6-2.7 ppm. | 2.7 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Turbidity Highest recorded result 0.12 NTU, range 0.02-0.12; 100% of monthly samples met the limit. | 0.12 NTU | 0.3 NTU in 95%… | 2025 |
| Total organic carbon Range 1.0-1.7; a value of 1 or above means compliance. | 1.0 ratio of… | 1.0 minimum | 2025 |
| Lead 1 of 22 sampled sites was above the action level in the most recent (2023) round; no system violation. | 4.280 ppb (90th… | 15 (action… | 2023 |
| Copper 0 of 25 sites above the action level. | 0.378 ppm (90th… | 1.3 (action… | 2023 |
Source: files.cityofhuron.org
EPA compliance record · Erie Co. Huron East District
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Huron City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.3 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Projects & plans1
Planned or needed
- New 2.0 Million Gallon Elevated Water Storage Tank · $10 million · 2025 · planned
A 111-foot elevated tank that functionally replaces an existing 500,000-gallon tower nearby. Ohio EPA issued the LER and FNSI on July 29, 2025 under WSRLA loan…
Supply stress
Supply volume is not the constraint -- the plant is rated 3.4 MGD against about 2.53 MGD average use, with headroom to 5.0 MGD. The documented risk is source water quality: Ohio EPA's 2025 loan review states Lake Erie has annual harmful algal bloom events that can impact treatment, and that Huron needs more finished water storage so it…
Sewers
Sanitary
Sanitary sewer service is provided by Erie County, not the city; the city's utilities page routes sewer customers to the county Department of Sanitary Engineering. Treatment plant name, capacity and receiving stream are not stated on city pages.
Storm
The city operates its own stormwater program alongside the water and street departments. No specific flooding problem or CSO obligation for the city's own stormwater system was found in the sources reviewed, though combined sewer overflows are listed…
Source: huronohio.ushuronohio.us
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Erie Co. Huron East District on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 44839 · Huron4% of residents
- 44089 · Vermilion4% 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
Erie Co. Huron East District buys its water from Huron City.
No other system is on record buying water from Erie Co. Huron East District.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 ZIP codes 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