Water system
Winesburg Area Development Corporation
EPA ID OH3801412 · Holmes County · 1,575 people served
Winesburg Area Development Corporation treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 1,575 people · Holmes County
- EPA ID
- OH3801412
About this area's water
Did you know
- Winesburg was originally named 'Weinsberg' after a town in Germany before postal officials anglicized the spelling in 1833.
- Despite the identical name, this real Holmes County village is not the fictional setting of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 novel 'Winesburg, Ohio' (Wikipedia's article on the novel notes it is unrelated to the real community).
- The community sits on a ridge along U.S. Route 62 in the heart of Ohio's Amish country.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.orgwinesburgoh.numinousmedia.com
History2
- 1829The community was founded under the name 'Weinsberg,' after a town in Germany.
- 1833Postal authorities changed the spelling to 'Winesburg' when the post office opened.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Not verified from a primary source. The Winesburg Area Development Corporation (PWSID OH3801412) draws from three groundwater wells per Ohio EPA licensing records, but no CCR, engineering report, or treatment-process description is published online; the org's own website (winesburgwater.com) lists…
Water pressure
Not published; no CCR or engineering-report pressure figure located.
What it costs
No published rate schedule found for this system; not billed through any source located online.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.8 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Supply stress
Not established from verified sources. Winesburg is an unincorporated community (2020 Census population 340) served by a nonprofit development corporation's wellfield with an Ohio EPA-endorsed drinking water source protection plan (endorsed 4/15/25), but no contamination, susceptibility rating, or capacity-stress documentation was…
Source: edocpub.epa.ohio.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not verified from a primary source; many homes in unincorporated Holmes County communities are on individual septic systems, but this was not confirmed specifically for Winesburg.
Storm
Not verified from a primary source.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources. Little is published about this system, so details are thin.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 2 ZIP codes
- 44690 · Paint Township and Winesburg100% of residents
- 44624 · Paint Township and Dundee4% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 44689 · Paint Township and Wilmot12% 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
Winesburg Area Development Corporation does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Winesburg Area Development Corporation.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 3 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: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, winesburgoh.numinousmedia.com
History: en.wikipedia.org
Supply stress: edocpub.epa.ohio.gov