Water system

Deersville Village

EPA ID OH3400312 · Harrison County · 82 people served · owned by a local government

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater

Deersville Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

The system's record

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater

The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Deersville Village as buying its water from Aqua Ohio - Mansfield System #11; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Aqua Ohio - Mansfield System #11 as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.

Wells: EPA lists 2 active wells.
Deersville, Village Of Well T-8Deersville, Village Of Well T-11
Active wells
2
Serves
82 people · Harrison County
EPA ID
OH3400312

About this area's water

Did you know
  • Deersville was platted in 1815 and has had a post office since 1828, making it one of the older platted communities in Harrison County; its population peaked at 382 in 1880 and had fallen to 69 by the 2020 census.
  • The village-owned water system serves 82 people through 57 connections from two wells.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov

Treatment & pressure

How it is treated

We found no published treatment description for this two-well groundwater system.

Water pressure

Not published.

What it costs

No public rate ordinance or schedule could be located despite the system being village (municipally) owned per EPA SDWIS; the Village of Deersville does not appear to have an…

Source: data.epa.gov

Water quality & impurities1
ContaminantLevelLimitYear
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA's record of 8 sampling rounds, 2018 to 2025. Highest 90th-percentile result 1.6 ppb (2021). Each figure sums up a round of taps, not one tap.
0 ppb15 (action level)2025

Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov

EPA compliance record

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

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

  • 2026Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule · no certified operator · returned to compliance

13 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 6 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 6 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.

Supply stress

We found no documented water-stress problem. EPA SDWIS shows a long pattern of recurring monitoring/reporting violations, including yearly water quality reports not issued or inadequate (2001, 2004, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, and one opened January 2026, several still listed as ongoing), lead and copper tap testing missed in 2023, and missed disinfection byproduct testing for 2023 and 2024 (both later resolved).

Source: data.epa.gov

Sewers

Sanitary

The village owns its water system per EPA records; we found no record of a village sanitary sewer system.

Sourcesverified

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

Main supplier in 1 ZIP code

Serves

Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code

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

Deersville 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 Deersville Village.

What the records show about Deersville Village

Who runs it

EPA's record describes Deersville Village as owned by a local government. It has 57 service connections and serves 82 people.

EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.

How the water is treated

EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Deersville Village: corrosion control and chlorine disinfection.

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 counts 1 health-based violation for Deersville Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. It falls into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.

EPA logs 13 violations of any kind since 2020: 6 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 6 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.

Health-based violations since 2015, most recent first
YearContaminant or ruleKindMeasuredLimitStatus in EPA's record
2026Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Ruleno certified operatornot on filenot on filereturned to compliance

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 Deersville 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 1.6 ppb, in the period ending December 2021.

EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Deersville 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 Deersville Village sent EPA, 48 lines are counted.

Service lines in the inventory
MaterialLines
Lead0
Galvanized, needing replacement0
Unknown material0
Not lead48
All lines48

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 Deersville Village (latest sample August 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 Deersville Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 13.9 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 28.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 28.7 µg/L, from 8 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.

For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 6.1 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 9.8 µg/L and the highest single sample was 9.8 µg/L, from 8 samples.

Disinfection byproducts in the distribution system
ByproductLimitLatest yearly averageWorst yearly averageHighest sampleSamples
TTHM80 µg/L13.9 µg/L (2019)28.7 µg/L28.7 µg/L8
HAA560 µg/L6.1 µg/L9.8 µg/L9.8 µg/L8

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 0.23 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2014; 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 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity in finished water, 2012 to 2019
ContaminantSamplesHighest resultLimitSamples over limit
Nitrate (as nitrogen)80.23 mg/L10 mg/L0
Arsenic3not detected10 µg/L0

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.

Solvents and fuels in finished water, 2012 to 2019
CompoundLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
Benzene5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Carbon tetrachloride5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
1,2-dichloroethane5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Trichloroethylene (TCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Vinyl chloride2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

"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 3 of 3 samples, highest 301 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 3 samples each.

Herbicides and metals in finished water, 2012 to 2019
SubstanceKindLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
AtrazineFarm chemical3 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
AlachlorFarm chemical2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
ChromiumMetal100 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
CadmiumMetal5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
BariumMetal2,000 µg/L33 of 3301 µg/L0
MercuryMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
SeleniumMetal50 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
ThalliumMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

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, 2 of 104 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Deersville Village tested positive (1.92%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 2 samples 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 Deersville Village buys its water from Aqua Ohio - Mansfield System #11, a system that has fluoride from natural sources at the recommended level for preventing tooth decay. The level it reports is 0.94 mg/L.

EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Deersville Village.

Measured fluoride: 0.22 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2018 (too little to protect teeth); samples ran at 0.22 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.

Water and sewer bills

Ohio EPA's 2023 rate survey puts the water bill at Deersville Village for a household using 5,000 gallons a month at $770 a year, about $64 a month.

Annual bills, 2023
UseWater, per yearSewer, per year
2,500 gallons a month$558not on file
5,000 gallons a month$770not on file
8,000 gallons a month$994not on file

The survey lists it as “Deersville”. These are inside-city rates and annual bills at the use shown.

Source: Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State University, May 2025).

How well the service area is mapped

The service area drawn on the map for Deersville Village comes from the utility's own map.

Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.

Photograph

The Deersville, Ohio Historic District, served by the Deersville Village groundwater wells
The Deersville, Ohio Historic District, served by the Deersville Village groundwater wellsPhoto: Bwsmith84 (talk) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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 OH3400312 (EPA ECHO).

Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov

Water quality: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov

Rates: data.epa.gov

Supply stress: data.epa.gov

Quick answers

Where does Deersville Village get its water?

Deersville Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

How many people does Deersville Village serve?

Deersville Village serves about 82 people, and is the main water system for 1 ZIP code.

Who owns Deersville Village?

Deersville Village is owned by a local government.

Is there lead in Deersville Village water?

In 2025 testing, Deersville Village's 90th-percentile lead level in tap samples was 0 ppb (the federal action level is 15 ppb). EPA's record of 8 sampling rounds, 2018 to 2025. Highest 90th-percentile result 1.6 ppb (2021). Each figure sums up a round of taps, not one tap.

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