Water system
Cleves Village
EPA ID OH3100512 · Hamilton County · 6,000 people served · owned by a local government
Cleves Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 6,000 people · Hamilton County
- EPA ID
- OH3100512
About this area's water
Did you know
- All three of Cleves' municipal wells sit outside the village, at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township.
- North Bend customers get their own rate class in the Cleves code, priced between the village rate and the general outside-village rate.
- Every water document linked from the village's own waterworks page - the source water protection plan and both Ohio EPA project notices - now returns a 404.
- Cleves' rate code lists more than forty separate billing classes by meter size, unit count, and billing cycle for a system serving about 6,000 people.
History6
- 2014April 7: Ohio EPA issued an environmental assessment and draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the Village of Cleves Elizabethtown Water Mains, Phase 3.
- 2015June 2: Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and final Finding of No Significant Impact for the Jackson/Hooven/East State/St Annes water main projects, WSRLA loan FS390264-0017.
- 2015May: the Cleves Board of Public Affairs, which had run the waterworks, was dissolved; administration passed to the village administrator, the mayor, and village council.
- 2015October 14: Ordinance 15-2015 established the codified water rate schedule still in the code.
- 2025Ordinance 08-2025 applied an 8% water rate increase retroactive to April 1, 2025, and set a further 5% increase for January 1, 2026.
- 2025December 12: Ohio EPA recorded an informal enforcement action against the system; EPA's database shows unresolved monitoring and reporting violations under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions and the…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Cleves supplies its own water from three groundwater wells at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County - outside the village. EPA's SDWIS record classifies the system as ground water, community, locally owned, serving about 6,000 people. The village publishes no description of its…
Source: cleves.orgecho.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No pressure or system-hydraulics figures appear on the village waterworks page or in its codified ordinances.
What it costs
$3.65 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $21 a month for water.
Codified at Cleves Code of Ordinances Sec. 50.01 (2026 S-1), billed in gallons, not cubic feet. Village accounts, monthly: 2,000-gallon minimum $13.72, then $3.65 per 1,000…
Source: codelibrary.amlegal.com
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Jackson/Hooven/East State/St Annes water main projects (WSRLA loan FS390264-0017) · 2015
Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and final FONSI on June 2, 2015. The village's own link to the document now returns 404 and no cost, scope, or… - Elizabethtown Water Mains, Phase 3 · 2014
Ohio EPA environmental assessment and draft FONSI dated April 7, 2014. The village's link to the document now returns 404; scope, cost, and completion…
Source: cleves.org
Supply stress
Groundwater from a three-well field at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township, near the Great Miami/Ohio River confluence area. The village obtained grant funding through the Miami Valley Conservancy District, with Brandstetter Carroll Inc., to develop a source water protection plan for the three wells; the plan document linked from the…
Source: cleves.orgecho.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not a village utility. The village directs sewer backups to the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati call center (513-352-4900); MSD is the county-wide wastewater utility. No Cleves-specific treatment plant, capacity, receiving stream, or rate information is published by the village.
Storm
Not documented. No storm water utility or fee appears in the village's ordinances or on its waterworks page.
Source: cleves.org
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
Main water supplier in 3 ZIP codes
- 45033 · Whitewater Township and Hooven100% of residents
- 45052 · Miami Township and North Bend51% of residents
- 45001 · Addyston43% of residents
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 45002 · Miami Township and Cleves36% of residents
- 45030 · Harrison1% 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
Cleves Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Cleves Village.
What the records show about Cleves Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Cleves Village as owned by a local government. It has 2,500 service connections and serves 6,000 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 513-941-5127.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Cleves Village: chlorine disinfection and fluoridation.
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 Cleves Village since 2015.
EPA logs 3 violations of any kind since 2020: 3 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 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Cleves Village was 0 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027. A result of 0 means at least nine in ten of the homes sampled had no lead detected.
The highest result on file is 7.4 ppb, in the period ending December 2018.
EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Cleves Village since 2016, the first ending in 2018; 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 Cleves Village sent EPA, 2,701 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 1,665 |
| Not lead | 1,036 |
| All lines | 2,701 |
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
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 2 samples of the water entering the pipes of Cleves Village in 2024 and measured 29 PFAS. No PFAS was detected, PFOA and PFOS (federal limit 4 ng/L each) among them.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Cleves Village (latest sample June 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
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 Cleves Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 6.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 17.1 µg/L and the highest single sample was 21.8 µg/L, from 15 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 0 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 0 µg/L and the highest single sample was 0 µg/L, from 15 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 6.7 µg/L (2019) | 17.1 µg/L | 21.8 µg/L | 15 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 15 |
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 20 samples was 4.4 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2014; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 2.8 mg/L. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 20 | 4.4 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | 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 3 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | 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 all nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 63.1 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, 2,4-D, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 3 samples each.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| 2,4-D | Farm chemical | 70 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 63.1 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | 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 583 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Cleves Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 79 did.
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 Cleves Village adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Cleves Village.
Measured fluoride: 1.04 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2018 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.9 to 1.04 mg/L across 3 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.
Lithium
Lithium was not detected in 2 UCMR 5 samples at Cleves Village, last sampled in 2024 (the method reports from 9 µg/L).
Lithium is not regulated. EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026), samples from 2023 to 2025.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Cleves 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 8,541 residents are inside the boundary, 142% of the 6,000 people Cleves Village reports serving.
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 — 5 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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH3100512 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: cleves.org, codelibrary.amlegal.com
History: cleves.org, codelibrary.amlegal.com, echo.epa.gov
Capital projects: cleves.org
Rates: codelibrary.amlegal.com
Sewers: cleves.org
Treatment: cleves.org, echo.epa.gov
Supply stress: cleves.org, echo.epa.gov
