Water system
New London Village
EPA ID OH3902611 · Huron County · 3,226 people served · owned by a local government
New London Village treats its own water from Buck Creek, impounded in New London's upground reservoir.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Buck Creek (Vermilion River tributary), New London Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- London Rese
London Buck Creek - Serves
- 3,226 people · Huron County
- EPA ID
- OH3902611
About this area's water
Did you know
- New London does not drink straight from Buck Creek: it pumps creek water into an artificial 220-acre "upground" reservoir holding 1.4 billion gallons, and treats out of the reservoir instead of out of the stream.
- A village with about 1,360 water customers is a regional wholesaler. Ordinance 2025-14 sets contract rates for two outside buyers -- Rural Lorain County Water Authority and Northern Ohio Rural Water -- at $2.39 to $2.58…
- The 2024 service line inventory found zero lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or unknown-material service lines anywhere in the distribution system, determined from historic records and visual inspections.
History4
- 1996The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments established the national Source Water Assessment and Protection Program, under which Ohio EPA later mapped New London's Buck Creek drinking water protection…
- undated…Ohio EPA's source water assessment describes the system as serving approximately 4,300 people through Plant #1 and 7,700 through Plant #2, with a treatment capacity of about 1,300,000 gallons per day…
- 2024CCR reports average daily production of 361,000 gallons for the village's own approximately 1,360 customers, and a distribution system with no lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or…
- 2025Council passed Ordinance 2025-14 on April 28, 2025 as an emergency measure, amending Codified Ordinance sections 921.10 and 925.07 to raise retail water and sewer rates and to reset the contract…
Source: newlondonoh.comnewlondonoh.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Water is pumped from Buck Creek, a branch of the Vermilion River, into the New London Reservoir -- 220 surface acres and 1.4 billion gallons when full -- and then filtered (turbidity is the CCR's stated filtration-performance indicator), fluoridated and chlorinated before distribution. The village…
Source: newlondonoh.com
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the 2024 CCR, the village's water/sewer pages, nor Ordinance 2025-14 states an average service pressure or describes pressure zones.
Source: newlondonoh.comnewlondonoh.com
What it costs
$4.81 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $34 a month for water.
Ordinance 2025-14, passed April 28, 2025 (emergency; prior figures shown struck through in the ordinance). Water inside the village limits: $24.70 per month minimum covering the…
Source: newlondonoh.comnewlondonoh.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range of detections 40.2-83.3 ppb; disinfection by-product. Individual results reached above 80 ppb but the CCR reports… | 62.7 ppb | MCL 80 | 2024 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 18.1-32.60 ppb; disinfection by-product. No violation. | 26 ppb | MCL 60 | 2024 |
| Total Chlorine Range 1.20-1.63 ppm; residual disinfectant. | 1.41 ppm | MRDL 4 | 2024 |
| Fluoride Range 0.80-1.17 ppm; naturally occurring plus water additive. | 1.04 ppm | MCL 4 | 2024 |
| Nitrate Range ND-0.61 ppm. | 0.61 ppm | MCL 10 | 2024 |
| Barium Single result, no range reported. | 0.033 ppm | MCL 2 | 2024 |
| Cyanide Single result, no range reported. | 1 ppb | MCL 200 | 2024 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 10 samples above the action level, sampled June-September. The CCR prints the 90th-percentile value as .012 ug/L… | 0.012 ug/L (as… | AL 15 ppb | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 10 samples above the action level, sampled June-September. | 0.012 mg/L | AL 1.3 ppm | 2024 |
| Turbidity Lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting the turbidity limit was 99.9%; no violation. | 0.35 NTU… | TT: 0.3 NTU in… | 2024 |
Source: newlondonoh.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.5 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2020Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule · required treatment not met · returned to compliance
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020: 1 health-based.
Supply stress
The supply is an impounded upground reservoir filled by pumping from Buck Creek, so it depends on pumping capacity and creek flow rather than on a direct river withdrawal, and 1.4 billion gallons of storage gives it a substantial drought buffer. The plant carries far more than village demand: Ohio EPA's source water assessment puts…
Source: newlondonoh.comnewlondonoh.com
Sewers
Sanitary
The Village of New London operates its own sanitary sewer and wastewater treatment service, billed under Codified Ordinance section 925.07 as amended by Ordinance 2025-14 ("All users discharging waste to the sewage collection system shall be billed for wastewater treatment service... There shall be no free service"). The plant name…
Storm
Not documented. No stormwater utility, fee, or drainage program appears in the village's published ordinances, department pages or fee schedules.
Source: newlondonoh.comnewlondonoh.com
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
- 44851 · New London45% 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
New London 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 New London Village.
What the records show about New London Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes New London Village as owned by a local government. It has 1,351 service connections and serves 3,226 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 2023.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for New London Village: corrosion control, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, granular activated carbon, 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 counts 1 health-based violation for New London 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 1 violation of any kind since 2020: 1 health-based.
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | required treatment not met | not on file | not on file | returned 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 New London Village was 0.5 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 1 ppb, in the period ending December 2021.
EPA has 7 sampling periods on file for New London Village since 2016, the first ending in 2020; 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 New London Village sent EPA, 1,433 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 1,433 |
| All lines | 1,433 |
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 2 plants of New London Village (latest sample September 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.
Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity
Nitrate: the highest of 96 samples was 0.76 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2017; 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 8 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 96 | 0.76 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 8 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
| Combined radium | 1 | 1 pCi/L | 5 pCi/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 8 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | 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: barium in 8 of 8 samples, highest 31.8 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 8 samples each.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 8 | 8 of 8 | 31.8 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 8 | 0 of 8 | 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.
Fluoride
The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says New London Village adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at New London Village.
Measured fluoride: 0.96 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.92 to 1.11 mg/L across 8 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.
Algal toxins
Ohio EPA tests for microcystin, a toxin that harmful algal blooms can release, in raw water at the intake and in treated water.
No microcystin was detected in the 120 raw-water samples.
Microcystin was never detected in treated water (78 samples).
In all, 198 samples from 2016 to 2026, the latest on August 25, 2026.
| Water | Samples | Detections | Highest result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw water, at the intake | 120 | 0 | not detected |
| Treated water | 78 | 0 | not detected |
The ten-day advisory levels for treated water are 0.3 µg/L for children under six and 1.6 µg/L for everyone else. Any detection at the intake triggers more frequent testing until two clean weeks.
Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring, 2016 to present (HAB data, fetched September 2026).
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of New London Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 2,408 residents are inside the boundary, 75% of the 3,226 people New London Village reports serving.
The resident count is an estimate from 2020 Census ZIP-code populations, not a count of customers.
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 — 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 OH3902611 (EPA ECHO).
New London Village's own pages: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com, norw.org
Notable facts: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com, norw.org
History: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com
Water quality: newlondonoh.com
Water pressure: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com
Rates: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com
Sewers: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com
Treatment: newlondonoh.com
Supply stress: newlondonoh.com, newlondonoh.com
