Water system
Grafton Village
EPA ID OH4700511 · Lorain County · 2,769 people served · owned by a local government
Grafton Village buys its water from Rural Lorain Co. Water A.
The system's record
Also connected to New London Village (Buck Creek, impounded in New London's upground reservoir), Ashland City (Jerome Fork Basin sand-and-gravel aquifer (wells)), used as a secondary or emergency supply.
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie
- Raw intakes
- Avon Lake Lake Erie
- Serves
- 23,659 people · Lorain County
- EPA ID
- OH4700311
Avon Lake Regional Water operates two Lake Erie intakes (54" and 36") and its filtration plant on the lakeshore; it wholesales to Avon, North Ridgeville, Sheffield/Sheffield Lake, RLCWA, and the City of Medina.
About this area's water Avon Lake City
Did you know
- The utility began in 1925 with $390,000 and 1,200 customers; today it is roughly a $60 million operation serving over 200,000 people across a 680-square-mile territory in seven counties.
- About 85% of the water the plant produces is sold outside Avon Lake's own city limits — to Avon, North Ridgeville, Sheffield Lake, Medina and others.
- Lab staff run about 150 water quality tests a day, more than 50,000 a year.
- Four of the plant's filters were the originals installed in 1926; they are being replaced in the upgrade that broke ground in 2024, after nearly a century of service.
- The 2017 tower replacement swapped a 500,000-gallon tank for a 3-million-gallon one — a sixfold jump in elevated storage for $8 million.
History6
- 1925Avon Lake's water system was established with an initial investment of $390,000 (1925 dollars) in land and facilities, serving about 1,200 residents.
- 1926The original Lake Erie filtration plant and administration buildings were built on Lake Road with a maximum capacity of 2 million gallons per day.
- 2017…Began adding orthophosphate to the finished water for corrosion control, coating pipe interiors to reduce lead and copper leaching.
- 2017…A new 3-million-gallon water tower bowl went into service, replacing a 500,000-gallon tank; $8 million, financed by a 0-percent Ohio EPA loan repaid through roughly $4/year per customer.
- 2018-2019West Ridge interconnection built, giving Avon Lake, the Rural Lorain County Water Authority and the City of Elyria a shared emergency backup connection rated up to 8 MGD; cost split ALRW 40% / RLCWA…
- 2016-2019$35 million rehabilitation of the Water Reclamation Facility to expand treatment capacity.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Lake Erie surface water is drawn through two separate offshore intakes (ALRW describes them only as "two separate intakes" — no pipe diameters are published) to the Water Filtration Plant at 33370 Lake Rd. Treatment is conventional surface-water filtration: powdered activated carbon (fed year-round…
Source: avonlakewater.orgavonlakewater.orgavonlakewater.org
Water pressure
Not published — no psi figure appears in the utility's CCR, rate schedule, or plant pages. The system does hold 3 million gallons of elevated storage: a new tower bowl put in…
Source: patch.comavonlakewater.org
What it costs
$2.25 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $10 a month for water.
Effective 1/1/2026, residential standard 3/4-inch meter. Avon Lake bills QUARTERLY, not monthly. Water: $8.37 quarterly minimum service fee (includes the first 2,000 gallons)…
Source: avonlakewater.org
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 17.1 to 51.6 ppb; disinfection byproduct. No violation. | 36.55 ppb | 80 (MCL) | 2023 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 9.60 to 20.3 ppb; disinfection byproduct. No violation. | 16.8 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2023 |
| Total Chlorine Range 1.20 to 1.40 ppm; disinfectant residual. | 1.39 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2023 |
| Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Range 1.0 to 1.7. Reported as the removal ratio; above 1 means compliant. | 1.32 ratio | TT | 2023 |
| Turbidity Range 0.02 to 0.20 NTU; 100% of samples met the treatment technique standard. | 0.20 (highest) NTU | TT | 2023 |
| Fluoride Range 0.69 to 1.20 ppm; naturally occurring plus additive for dental health. | 0.69 ppm | 4 (MCL) | 2023 |
| Nitrate Range 0.134 to 0.96 ppm; well below MCL. | 0.96 ppm | 10 (MCL) | 2023 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries. | 0.02 ppm | 2 (MCL) | 2023 |
| Lead (90th percentile, tap samples) No individual results over the action level. The CCR does not publish a tap-sample count; the "61" in the report is the… | <2.0 ppb | 15 (action… | 2023 |
| Copper (90th percentile, tap samples) No individual results over the action level. | 0.06 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2023 |
Source: avonlakewater.org
EPA compliance record · Grafton Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.5 ppb in 2025 (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).
EPA compliance record · Avon Lake City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans8
Recent and current work
- 3-million-gallon water tower bowl replacement · $8 million · 2017 · completed
Replaced a 500,000-gallon tank; financed with a 0-percent Ohio EPA loan. - Orthophosphate corrosion control · 2017 · completed
Phosphate dosing began September 11, 2017, within Ohio EPA-approved guidelines. - West Ridge interconnection (ALRW / RLCWA / Elyria) · 2018-2019 · completed
Emergency backup connection rated up to 8 MGD. Up to $3 million was requested from the Water Supply Revolving Loan Account; the final construction cost is not… - Water Reclamation Facility rehabilitation · $35 million · 2016-2019 · completed
Increased treatment capacity to meet growing demand on the collection system. - Combined sewer separation program · 1974-2019 · completed
Begun under a 1974 City Master Sewer Plan after the 1972 Clean Water Act; final conversion December 2019. - Water Filtration Plant filtration and chemical feed/storage upgrade · 2024-2026 · under construction
Four new larger filters added at the end of the existing twelve, replacing units including the original 1926 filters; expanded chemical storage and conversion…
Source: patch.comavonlakewater.orgavonlakewater.org
Planned or needed
- On-site sodium hypochlorite generation from salt · planned
ALRW says it is preparing to pilot the first system of its kind in Ohio, generating hypochlorite from sodium chloride on site, pending Ohio EPA approval, to… - Property acquisition adjacent to the Water Filtration Plant · proposed
The Board acquired several adjacent properties to allow future capacity expansion for expected county growth. No project scope or cost published.
Source: avonlakewater.org
Supply stress
Source is Lake Erie through two intakes, which the utility describes as a "virtually endless source of quality raw water" — volume is not the constraint. Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Source Assessment finds the protection area (critical assessment zone) susceptible to contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, air…
Source: avonlakewater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Avon Lake Regional Water operates the Water Reclamation Facility, serving all of Avon Lake, the northern part of Avon, and the Lorain County Rural Wastewater District (LORCO) in and around Eaton and Carlisle Townships. Rated 6.5 MGD normal flow with capacity to accept as much as 12.5 MGD in wet weather. Final effluent discharges to Lake…
Storm
No separate stormwater utility or stormwater fee is documented in the utility's published rate schedule or service pages. Wet-weather flow was addressed through the combined-sewer separation program completed in 2019 and the added wet-weather capacity at the…
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Grafton Village on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 44044 · Grafton19% of residents
- 44050 · Lagrange Township and Lagrange0% 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
Grafton Village buys its water from Rural Lorain Co. Water A, which buys from Avon Lake City.
No other system is on record buying water from Grafton Village.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 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