Water system
Milan Village
EPA ID OH2201212 · Erie County · 1,371 people served · owned by a local government
Milan Village buys its water from Erie Co. Perkins District.
The system's record
Also connected to Huron City (Lake Erie), used as a secondary or emergency supply.
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie, Sandusky Bay
- Raw intakes
- Sandusky Bay
Lake Erie - Serves
- 25,793 people · Erie County
- EPA ID
- OH2201411
Main intake is in Lake Erie; the Sandusky Bay intake serves as an emergency/backup source.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Milan was built on the site of Petquotting, an abandoned Moravian Indian mission village (1805-1809), before Ebenezer Merry founded the town in 1817.
- The Milan Canal (1839-1868) briefly made the inland village one of the busiest grain-shipping ports on the Great Lakes, before an 1868 flood destroyed its feeder dam and railroads had already bypassed the town, freezing…
- Milan no longer treats a drop of its own drinking water: in September 2017 the village decommissioned its treatment plant and switched to buying finished water from Erie County, which itself buys wholesale from the…
- In 2024 Milan completed the lead service line inventory required nationwide under the updated Lead and Copper Rule.
History6
- 1817Milan founded by Ebenezer Merry on the site of Petquotting, a former Moravian Indian mission village (1805-1809).
- 1833Village incorporated as Milan (originally platted as "Beatty"); construction begins on the Milan Canal to Lake Erie.
- 1839Milan Canal opens to lake navigation on July 4, connecting the village directly to Lake Erie.
- 1847Milan reaches its peak as one of the busiest Great Lakes grain-shipping ports; roughly 60 ships were built in Milan between 1840 and 1867.
- 1868The canal's feeder dam fails in a flood, permanently ending the canal era as railroads had already bypassed the village in the 1850s.
- 2017In September, the Village of Milan elected to purchase treated water from Erie County (Perkins District) rather than operate its own plant, and began decommissioning its water treatment facility.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Milan treats none of its own water. Since September 2017 the village has purchased finished, treated water from the Erie County Water Distribution System (Perkins District), which in turn purchases treated Lake Erie water wholesale from the City of Sandusky's Big Island Water Treatment Plant…
Source: milanohio.gov
Water pressure
No psi figure is published in Milan's CCR or on the village or Erie County sites. The 2024 CCR does note the village's finished water is stored/distributed via a 500,000-gallon…
Source: milanohio.gov
What it costs
No published water rate schedule for Milan was located on the village site, in its municipal code excerpts found via search, or in state rate surveys reviewed this session. Not…
Water quality & impurities5
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 10 Village of Milan samples above the action level. Source: Village of Milan 2024 CCR. | 0.84 ppm | 1.35 (action… | 2024 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 10 Village of Milan samples above the action level. | 1.3 ppb | 15 (action… | 2024 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 7.1-53.7 ppb across the year; no violation. | 32.0 ppb | 80 | 2024 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 12.6-39.3 ppb; no violation. | 22.2 ppb | 60 | 2024 |
| Total Chlorine residual Range 0.8-1.3. Milan's own CCR table prints the unit as "ppb," which is almost certainly a typo for ppm/mg-L given the… | 1.1 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2024 |
Source: milanohio.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2018Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.092 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
EPA compliance record · Sandusky City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 5 ppb in 2025 (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
Per Milan's 2024 CCR, Ohio EPA source-water assessments for both the Sandusky and Huron intakes call the Lake Erie source area susceptible to contamination from municipal sewage treatment plants, industrial wastewater, combined sewer overflows, home sewage discharges, open-water dredge disposal, and spills from commercial…
Source: milanohio.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not determined this session -- no source located identifying Milan Village's wastewater treatment provider, plant capacity, or receiving stream (the Huron River runs through the village, so it is a plausible receiving water, but this is not confirmed).
Storm
Not determined this session; no information found on stormwater management, combined sewers, or flooding history.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44846 · Milan Township and Milan39% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 44857 · Norwalk0% 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
Milan Village buys its water from Erie Co. Perkins District, which buys from Sandusky City.
No other system is on record buying water from Milan Village.
Photograph
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
Notable facts: milanohio.gov, milanohio.gov, en.wikipedia.org
History: milanohio.gov, milanohio.gov, en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: milanohio.gov
Water pressure: milanohio.gov
Treatment: milanohio.gov
Supply stress: milanohio.gov