Water system
Millersport Village
EPA ID OH2301212 · Fairfield County · 3,200 people served · owned by a local government
Millersport Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (4 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 4
- Serves
- 3,200 people · Fairfield County
- EPA ID
- OH2301212
About this area's water
Did you know
- The village grew up as a canal port, and a well-preserved stretch of the Ohio-Erie Canal still cuts through the center of town.
- Millersport hosts the Sweet Corn Festival the weekend before Labor Day, which the village describes as the second-largest festival in the state of Ohio; proceeds fund civic groups including Lions Club eyeglasses for…
- Buckeye Lake began as a swamp the pioneers called Buffalo Licks, was impounded as the Licking Reservoir to feed the canal, and is now a 3,557-acre recreation lake.
- The water department reads as a family operation: the 2025 CCR lists John Wood and Chase Wood as the contacts for the four-well system.
- The drinking water sits about 75 feet down under roughly 70 feet of clay, sand and gravel -- the reason Ohio EPA rates this aquifer low-susceptibility while most Ohio systems its size carry a higher rating.
History4
- 1825Village founded by Mathias Miller as a port of trade on the Ohio-Erie Canal, about a mile from the fading canal town of Monticello, which has since disappeared completely.
- canal era…The swamp the pioneers called Buffalo Licks was impounded as the Licking Reservoir to supply water for the Ohio-Erie Canal, and was later renamed Buckeye Lake; the village sits on its shore. The…
- 2022Council Ordinance #849, passed 12/13/2022, adopted a 5-year rate-increase appendix of 2 percent per year running 2023-2027 for water and sewer, with each year's schedule effective February 1.
- by 2025New radio water meters were installed and the installing technicians visually inspected and documented each service line's material; the 2025 CCR reports the distribution system has no lead, no…
Source: millersportohio.commillersportohio.commillersportohio.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Four groundwater wells at Deep Cut Road and Refugee Street feed a plant using gravity iron and manganese filtration, ion exchange water softening, and chlorination. The plant is rated to produce one million gallons of water per day.
Source: millersportohio.com
Water pressure
Not published. The 2025 CCR gives no service pressure, pressure-zone or storage-tank figures, and no other village document located states one.
Source: millersportohio.com
What it costs
$6.88 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $37 a month for water.
Village of Millersport 2026 Water Rates schedule, adopted under Ordinance #849 (passed 12/13/2022) with its 5-year 2%-per-year appendix for 2023-2027; effective February 1. Water…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) The CCR prints the amount detected (72.9) ABOVE the top of its own stated range of detections (51.2-69.7 ppb) -- an… | 72.9 ppb | MCL 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 5.3-11.7 ppb; disinfection by-product, well under the limit. | 13.9 ppb | MCL 60 | 2025 |
| Chlorine Range 0.68-1.15 ppm; residual disinfectant. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 0.8975 ppm | MRDL 4 | 2025 |
| Arsenic Range ND-0.90 ppb; erosion of natural deposits. Far below the MCL. | 0.90 ppb | MCL 10 | 2025 |
| Barium No range reported. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 0.187 ppm | MCL 2 | 2023 |
| Nitrate Range ND-0.205 ppm; well below the MCL. | 0.205 ppm | MCL 10 | 2025 |
| Nitrite Range 0.01-0.17 ppm; well below the MCL. | 0.17 ppm | MCL 1 | 2024 |
| Fluoride No range reported; naturally occurring plus water additive. | 1.02 ppm | MCL 4 | 2023 |
| Toluene No range reported; discharge from petroleum factories. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 0.0001 ppm | MCL 1 | 2023 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Range ND-0.60 ppb; 0 of 10 sites above the action level; no lead service lines in the distribution system. | ND ppb | AL 15 | 2023 |
Source: millersportohio.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.6 ppb in 2023 (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).
Projects & plans1
Recent and current work
- Radio water meter installation program · by 2025 · completed
New radio water meters were installed and the installing technicians visually inspected and documented each service line's material, which is how the village…
Source: millersportohio.com
Supply stress
Low. Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer as having low susceptibility to contamination because the source water sits about 75 feet below ground surface beneath roughly 70 feet of clay, sand and gravel, which limits contaminant movement from the surface. The plant is rated at 1 million gallons per day for a system serving…
Source: millersportohio.com
Sewers
Sanitary
The Village of Millersport Public Works runs its own sanitary sewer utility, billed on the same schedule as water: $30.46 per month for the first 2,000 gallons in town and $10.06 per additional 1,000, $34.48 and $10.35 out of town, with sewer-only customers billed $56.72 on an assumed 4,500 gallons. A $100 sewer tap inspection fee…
Storm
No separate stormwater utility or fee appears on the village's 2026 water and sewer fee schedule, and no village document located describes a stormwater program or drainage projects.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43046 · Walnut Township and Millersport35% 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
Millersport Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Millersport Village: Buckeye Lake, Village Of.
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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: millersportohio.com, millersportohio.com
History: millersportohio.com, millersportohio.com, millersportohio.com
Water quality: millersportohio.com
Water pressure: millersportohio.com
Capital projects: millersportohio.com
Rates: millersportohio.com, millersportohio.com
Sewers: millersportohio.com, millersportohio.com
Treatment: millersportohio.com
Supply stress: millersportohio.com