Deshler Village

• Deshler grew up around intersecting Baltimore & Ohio Railroad lines and was nicknamed 'The Crossroads of the B&O'; the town's street grid follows the rail lines rather than a conventional grid.
• The village site originally lay within the Great Black Swamp, a wet, tree-covered area before drainage and settlement.
• The village's historic railroad depot, a longtime local landmark, was demolished on August 11, 2022.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

• 1872A post office opened in the newly platted town site, at the junction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad (formerly Dayton & Michigan) and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
• 1873Deshler was platted by the Deshler Land Company and named for John G. Deshler, original owner of the town site; B&O railroad construction began the same year.
• 1876The village of Deshler formally incorporated.

Source: en.wikipedia.orglib.bgsu.edu

How it is treated

Village draws from two groundwater wells per system input; no CCR or engineering report describing the specific treatment train (disinfection, iron/manganese removal, etc.) could be retrieved this session — EWG's Deshler tap-water page and the village's own CCR link both returned access-blocked…

Water pressure

Not published — no CCR or engineering report with a pressure figure was located.

$10.25 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $35 a month for water.

Village of Deshler water rate is $10.25 per 1,000 gallons with a $34.90 minimum monthly charge (billed whether or not service is active); tap fee $1,200. Sewer is billed…

Source: villageofdeshler.com

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.5 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Elevated water storage tank (water tower) · 2021 · proposed
  Village council approved an OPWC State Capital Improvement/Local Transportation funding application for a new elevated water storage tank in May 2021; current…

Source: northwestsignal.net

Not established from sources found; a two-well groundwater system serving under 1,600 people has inherently limited redundancy, but no documented drought, contamination, or capacity stress was located.

Sanitary

The village has been undertaking an EPA-mandated project to separate sanitary sewer lines from its combined/older sewer system, financed via an OWDA loan (semi-annual payments of $39,342 over 20 years, secured by sewer revenues); a sewer rate/service ordinance was also under council review as of early 2025.

Storm

Not verified — village sewer-separation project referenced above implies at least part of the system was historically combined sanitary/storm, but no dedicated stormwater system documentation was located.

Source: northwestsignal.net

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