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
New London's Plant 2 pumps Buck Creek water into its ~220-acre upground reservoir (1.4 billion gal capacity) for treatment; this reservoir also supplies Rural Lorain County Water Authority and, through it, NORW's Southeast District.
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. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 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. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 0.033 ppm | MCL 2 | 2024 |
| Cyanide Single result, no range reported. Omitted from the earlier draft. | 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:
- 2020Surface Water Treatment Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 0 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
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.
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
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