Archbold Village

• Archbold's plant draws raw water from two different streams — the Tiffin River and Brush Creek — and banks it in two above-ground reservoirs at the plant, pumping from the river only when the water quality is good.
• The system has no lead service lines at all, on either the village side or the owner's side, verified through department records, construction inspections, on-site inspections and meter installations — unusual for a…
• Because the Brunersburg Water District-Evansport, which buys Archbold water, once exceeded the disinfection-byproduct limit at its own master meter, Ohio rules have required Archbold to sample water quality at that…
• Ohio EPA singled out Archbold as an 'Outstanding Water System' with its Award of Excellence in 1997.
• A village of about 5,600 people runs a 7.6 mgd plant and sells water on to Elmira, Burlington, Pettisville, Ridgeville and Evansport — while averaging only about 1.8 mgd of production.

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• 1855Village established when the railroad was extended to the site; named for railroad promoter John Archbald, though an alternative tradition holds the name combines 'Arch' and 'Bald,' two other…
• 1948On January 4 a tractor-drawn bobsled carrying thirteen children was struck at an unguarded crossing by a Chicago-bound New York Central passenger train doing about 80 mph. Ten children died — the…
• 1990sVillage begins partnering with the Fulton County and Lenawee County (Michigan) Soil and Water Conservation Districts to fund and promote wetland restoration and conservation measures in the Tiffin…
• 1997Ohio EPA recognized the Archbold Water Department as an 'Outstanding Water System' with its Award of Excellence.
• 2003Ohio EPA source water assessment completed for the village; the Tiffin River/Brush Creek supply is rated highly susceptible to contamination.
• 2012Village developed a local drinking water source protection plan with Ohio EPA assistance, including ongoing Tiffin River monitoring and contacts with watershed groups in Michigan.

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How it is treated

Raw water is pumped from the Tiffin River and Brush Creek into two above-ground reservoirs at the plant at 700 North Street, then treated at a Class IV surface water plant rated by Ohio EPA at 7.6 mgd, producing about 1.8 mgd on average. Treatment is conventional filtration with chlorination and…

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Water pressure

Not published — no psi figure or pressure-zone map appears in the 2025 CCR or on any village utility page. The village does publish that the system holds 2,000,000 gallons of…

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$4.74 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $33 a month for water.

Ordinance 2025-37, passed on third reading October 20, 2025 and effective November 19, 2025, sets the 2026 rate schedule that began with the January 1, 2026 billing for December…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2022Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.102 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2021Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.104 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2020Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.1247 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2019Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.12353 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 13 includes 9 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

10 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 0 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Ohio EPA's 2003 source water assessment rates Archbold's supply as highly susceptible to contamination — the default for all surface waters, which are accessible and have short travel times from source to intake. The CCR names an unusually long list of threats in the protection area: agricultural runoff, industrial stormwater, gas…

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Sanitary

Village-owned wastewater treatment plant with 2.5 mgd design flow and 5.0 mgd peak flow plus overflow retention capability. Treatment is activated sludge with secondary settling and UV disinfection, and from September through May operators run a Biological Nutrient Removal process to strip phosphorus biologically. Effluent discharges to…

Storm

Separate storm sewer system. No stormwater utility fee, drainage plan, or flooding problem is published on the village site.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.