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
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
We found no published rate schedule for this system.
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
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). We found no record of contamination or capacity stress.
Source: edocpub.epa.ohio.gov
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.
What the records show about Winesburg Area Development Corporation
Who runs it
EPA's record says Winesburg Area Development Corporation has 552 service connections and serves 1,575 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
EPA's record says it has substantially implemented source water protection under Ohio's program, dating the program from 2025. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 330-359-6330.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Winesburg Area Development Corporation: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, ion-exchange softening, and sand or media filtration.
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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation since 2015.
EPA logs no violations of any kind for Winesburg Area Development Corporation since 2020.
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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation was 1.8 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 2.5 ppb, in the period ending December 2023.
EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Winesburg Area Development Corporation 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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation sent EPA, 552 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 552 |
| All lines | 552 |
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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation (latest sample September 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Winesburg Area Development Corporation as sampled, most recently April 2026.
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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 14.9 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 14.9 µg/L and the highest single sample was 15.9 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 11.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 14.7 µg/L, from 15 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 14.9 µg/L (2019) | 14.9 µg/L | 15.9 µg/L | 15 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 11.6 µg/L | 14.7 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 was not detected in 8 samples through 2019 (limit 10 mg/L as nitrogen; above 10 is unsafe for infants).
Arsenic: the highest of 3 samples was 1.8 µg/L (limit 10); detections averaged 1.8; none over the limit.
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 8 | not detected | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | 1.8 µg/L | 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 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: chromium in 2 of 3 samples, highest 2.27 µg/L (limit 100); barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 75.8 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, 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 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 2 of 3 | 2.27 µg/L | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 75.8 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, 2 of 194 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Winesburg Area Development Corporation tested positive (1.03%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 26 did. E. coli was never found in the 109 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 Winesburg Area Development Corporation has fluoride from natural sources, but at a level below what is recommended for preventing tooth decay, and does not adjust it. The level it reports is 0.23 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Winesburg Area Development Corporation.
Measured fluoride: every sample at the plant's entry points in 2018 was below the 0.2 mg/L reporting limit; detected samples in earlier years ran at 0.35 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.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Winesburg Area Development Corporation with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
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 — 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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH3801412 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, winesburgoh.numinousmedia.com
History: en.wikipedia.org
Supply stress: edocpub.epa.ohio.gov
