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 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
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.
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
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