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.
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. | 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. | 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. | 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 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
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 we found no village document on 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.
What the records show about Millersport Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Millersport Village as owned by a local government. It has 1,255 service connections and serves 3,200 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 740-467-2374.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Millersport 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 Millersport Village since 2015.
EPA logs 1 violation of any kind since 2020: 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 2023, the 90th-percentile lead result at Millersport Village was 0.6 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 3 sampling periods on file for Millersport Village since 2016, the first ending in 2017; 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 Millersport Village sent EPA, 1,023 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 1,023 |
| All lines | 1,023 |
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 Millersport 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 Millersport Village as sampled, most recently May 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 Millersport Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 53.4 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 70.2 µg/L and the highest single sample was 102 µg/L, from 48 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 11 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 12.8 µg/L and the highest single sample was 16.7 µg/L, from 48 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 53.4 µg/L (2019) | 70.2 µg/L | 102 µg/L | 48 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 11 µg/L | 12.8 µg/L | 16.7 µg/L | 48 |
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 8 samples was 0.34 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2012; 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 34 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 8 | 0.34 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 34 | not detected | 10 µg/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 286 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 | 286 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 389 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Millersport Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 48 did. E. coli was never found in the 1 sample tested for it.
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 Millersport Village has fluoride from natural sources at the recommended level for preventing tooth decay. The level it reports is 1.02 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Millersport Village.
Measured fluoride: 0.96 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2017 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.81 to 0.96 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 Millersport Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 1,116 residents are inside the boundary, 35% of the 3,200 people Millersport Village reports serving. With so much of its territory outside the polygon, part of the system shows on the map as private wells.
The resident count is an estimate from 2020 Census ZIP-code populations, not a count of customers.
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 OH2301212 (EPA ECHO).
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
