Water system
Lyons Village
EPA ID OH2600603 · Fulton County · 562 people served · owned by a local government
Lyons Village buys its water from Wauseon City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Maumee River, Big Ditch, Stucky Ditch
- Raw intakes
- Napoleon Maumee River
Stucky Ditch Creek
Big Ditch - Serves
- 7,568 people · Fulton County
- EPA ID
- OH2600111
Two upground reservoirs (Little ~70MG, Big ~271MG) are filled from Big Ditch and Stucky Ditch creeks plus a newer pipeline bringing raw Maumee River water from Napoleon; the same line can send reservoir water back to Napoleon in reverse when needed.
About this area's water Wauseon City
Did you know
- The raw-water line between Wauseon and Napoleon runs both directions: Wauseon can pull Maumee River water in, or push its own reservoir water back to Napoleon to be treated there when the river is too dirty. It never…
- Wauseon's reservoirs are upground basins, not dammed valleys — a 50-acre one holding 350 million usable gallons and a 15-acre one holding 90 million, filled by pump stations on two farm ditches that drain just 6.6…
- The plant ran 22,069 turbidity samples in 2025. The single cloudiest reading all year was 0.8 NTU, and the worst month still met the standard 99.9996% of the time.
- Wauseon's water is softened the old-fashioned way, with lime and soda ash — a class 3 lime/soda softening plant whose chemical list runs to nine items including potassium permanganate and carbon dioxide.
- The city sells treated water beyond its own limits: it supplies the Village of Lyons, and Fulton County's 100,000-gallon fairgrounds tank is part of the Wauseon system.
History4
- 1989Wauseon's wastewater treatment plant began operations on February 27, 1989, after nearly a decade of preliminary planning.
- 2001In August 2001 Wauseon's reservoir began receiving Maumee River water through a new raw-water line from Napoleon; since then most of the city's drinking water has come from the Maumee rather than…
- 2023Triennial lead and copper distribution sampling: 0 of 20 samples over the action level, with lead at the 90th percentile non-detectable.
- 2025The water plant is operating under a conditional license to operate, placed under Ohio EPA findings and orders for past total trihalomethane (TTHM) violations; the unconditional license returns once…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Class 3 lime/soda softening plant at 14514 County Road C, treating about 1 million gallons per day with capacity for 3 MGD; not automated, so staff run it 12 hours a day, 365 days a year. Raw water comes from two upground reservoirs — a 50-acre basin holding 350 million usable gallons and a 15-acre…
Source: cityofwauseon.comcityofwauseon.com
Water pressure
Not published. The city documents finished storage in detail (two elevated towers totaling 1 million gallons, 1 million gallons underground at the plant, and a 100,000-gallon…
What it costs
Not published online. The Water Department page (230 Clinton Street) covers starting service, the $125 security deposit for lease holders, ACH enrollment and the online payment…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (site DS202) Range 47.6-77.1 ppb. The highest running annual average in 2025 was 72.58 ppb in the second quarter. No violation in… | 60.9 ppb | 80 (MCL… | 2025 |
| Total haloacetic acids (site DS201) Range 22.7-45.3 ppb. | 30.7 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total haloacetic acids (site DS202) Range 19.2-42.8 ppb. | 28.1 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total trihalomethanes (site DS201) Range 6.4-28.7 ppb. | 17.7 ppb | 80 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.2-1.85 ppm. Runoff from fertilizer use. | 1.85 ppm | 10 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.93-1.12 ppm; added at the plant as hydrofluorosilicic acid. | 1.12 ppm | 4.0 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Range 1.0-1.57 ppm. | 1.30 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Atrazine Range ND-0.16 ppb. Runoff from herbicide used on row crops. | 0.12 ppb | 3 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Barium | 0.013 ppm | 2 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Turbidity Highest of 22,069 samples run in 2025; lowest monthly percentage meeting the limit was 99.9996%. | 0.8 NTU… | Treatment… | 2025 |
Source: cityofwauseon.comcityofwauseon.com
EPA compliance record · Lyons Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
- 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.082 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Wauseon City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.082 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2023Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2022Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.089 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2021Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2016Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.087 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 8 includes 3 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.
7 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 0 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans4
Recent and current work
- Napoleon-to-Wauseon raw water pipeline · 2001 · completed
Brought Maumee River water into Wauseon's reservoir starting August 2001 and has supplied most of the city's water since. Reversible, so reservoir water can be… - Wauseon wastewater treatment plant · 1989 · completed
1.5 MGD advanced secondary water reclamation plant on 11 acres north of Leggett Street, online 27 February 1989 after nearly a decade of planning; site has… - Trihalomethane reduction improvements at the water plant · 2025 · under construction
The 2025 CCR states the plant made several operational changes to bring TTHM numbers down, undertaken under Ohio EPA findings and orders; the conditional…
Source: cityofwauseon.comcityofwauseon.comcityofwauseon.com
Planned or needed
- Further trihalomethane improvements at the county public works site and throughout the distribution system · planned
Named in the 2025 CCR as continuing work to reduce disinfection byproducts. No cost, scope or schedule published.
Source: cityofwauseon.com
Supply stress
Quantity risk is real but engineered around. The two upground reservoirs hold about 440 million usable gallons but are fed by only 6.6 square miles of creek runoff, which is precisely why the Napoleon line exists: since August 2001 most of Wauseon's water has come from the Maumee River rather than from Big Ditch and Stuckey Ditch.…
Sewers
Sanitary
City-operated 1.5 MGD advanced secondary water reclamation plant at 945 E Leggett Street, on an 11-acre site on the east edge of town, in service since 27 February 1989 with room to expand to a 4.4 MGD peak. Flow arrives from the north and south ends of the system, combines at the head of the plant and is lifted by screw pumps high…
Storm
No separate storm sewer system or stormwater utility fee is published. Wauseon's collection system is explicitly a partially combined system that receives both storm water and sanitary flow and conveys both to the wastewater treatment plant — and the city's…
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
- 43533 · Royalton Township and Lyons41% 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
Lyons Village buys its water from Wauseon City.
No other system is on record buying water from Lyons Village.
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