Water system

Lagrange Village

EPA ID OH4700603 · Lorain County · 2,400 people served · owned by a local government

Lake Erie
Lake Erie

Lagrange Village buys its water from Rural Lorain Co. Water A.

The system's record

Lake Erie
Lake Erie
Lagrange Village buys its water from Rural Lorain Co. Water A, which buys from Avon Lake City. Avon Lake City treats water from Lake Erie.

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
Seller serves
23,659 people · Lorain County
Seller's EPA ID
OH4700311

About this area's water

Lake Erie shoreline at Avon Lake, Ohio
Lake Erie shoreline at Avon Lake, OhioPhoto: "Tichnor Quality Views," Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Made Only by Tichnor Bros., Inc., , Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Did you know
  • RLCWA, headquartered in LaGrange, is organized under ORC Chapter 6119 and serves all or part of 28 townships.
  • The village's name honors the Marquis de Lafayette's French estate, Chateau de la Grange-Bleneau -- chosen by early resident Dr. Eber Ward Hubbard.

Source: villageoflagrangeohio.govrlcwa.com

History4
  • 1825Nathan Clark and family arrive Nov. 14, 1825, the first permanent settlers of LaGrange Township.
  • 1875Village of LaGrange incorporated April 5, 1875; 103 voters elected the first officials, including Mayor Judson E. Willard.
  • 1973-74Rural Lorain County Water Authority formed under ORC Chapter 6119 by petition of sixteen townships and two villages; final judgment entered April 1974.
  • 2026LaGrange Village Council held a special Committee of the Whole meeting on July 23, 2026, limited to income tax and water rates -- indicating an active rate review.

Source: villageoflagrangeohio.govrlcwa.comvillageoflagrangeohio.gov

Treatment & pressure

How it is treated

LaGrange buys finished (already treated) water rather than treating its own.

Source: cms9files.revize.com

Water quality & impurities7
ContaminantLevelLimitYear
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
RLCWA system-wide result, blending Avon Lake/New London/Ashland sources; range 18-79.4 ppb across sources.
59.125 ppb80 ppb MCL2025
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Range 9.8-39.4 ppb. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.
31.475 ppb60 ppb MCL2025
Nitrate0.94 ppm10 ppm MCL2025
Fluoride
New London source component; blend also includes Avon Lake 0.71 ppm and Ashland 1.07 ppm. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.
1.16 ppm4 ppm MCL2025
Lead (90th percentile)
0 of 32 samples exceeded the lead action level. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.
<1 ppb2025
Copper (90th percentile)
Corrosion of household plumbing / natural erosion. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.
0.05752 ppm2025
Radium (combined 226/228)1.26 pCi/L5 pCi/L MCL2024

Source: cms9files.revize.com

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

  • 2024Haloacetic acids (HAA5) · above the legal limit on average · measured 0.09 MG/L (limit 0.06 MG/L) · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 2 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.

6 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 2 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 2 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 2 health-based.

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 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).

Projects & plans1

Planned or needed

  • LaGrange water meter replacement · 2026 · planned

Source: dam.assets.ohio.govvillageoflagrangeohio.gov

Sewers

Sanitary

The Village's Utilities Department bills jointly for water, wastewater.

Storm

The Village of LaGrange also bills separately for storm sewer service alongside water, sanitary sewer and trash (per the Village's utility-billing page).

Source: villageoflagrangeohio.govvillageoflagrangeohio.gov

Sources

Serves

Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code

Also present in 1 more ZIP code

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

Lagrange 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 Lagrange Village.

What the records show about Lagrange Village

Who runs it

EPA's record describes Lagrange Village as owned by a local government. It has 880 service connections and serves 2,400 people.

EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.

Its office telephone on EPA's record is 440-355-5555.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.

How the water is treated

Lagrange Village buys water that Avon Lake City treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Avon Lake City: corrosion control, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, powdered activated carbon, and sand or media filtration.

Lagrange Village adds nothing of its own on that table.

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 4 health-based violations for Lagrange Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. They fall into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.

EPA logs a violation for each compliance period a problem lasts, so the count of 4 includes 3 repeat entries of the problems listed.

EPA logs 8 violations of any kind since 2020: 2 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 2 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 4 health-based.

Health-based violations since 2015, most recent first
YearContaminant or ruleKindMeasuredLimitStatus in EPA's record
2024Haloacetic acids (HAA5)above the legal limit on average0.091 mg/L0.06 mg/Lreturned 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 November 2026).

Lead and copper at the tap

For the sampling period ending December 2025, EPA's record lists the 90th-percentile lead result at Lagrange Village as 0 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027. EPA records a result below the lab's reporting level as 0, so this is the result reported, not proof that no home sampled had lead.

The highest result on file is 0.4 ppb, in the period ending December 2024.

EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Lagrange Village 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 Lagrange Village sent EPA, 866 lines are counted.

Service lines in the inventory
MaterialLines
Lead0
Galvanized, needing replacement0
Unknown material457
Not lead409
All lines866

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

The water Lagrange Village buys is treated by Avon Lake City, so the results below are Avon Lake City's.

EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 9 samples of the water entering the pipes of Avon Lake City in 2023 to 2024 and measured 29 PFAS. EPA's UCMR 5 file shows no PFAS detected, PFOA and PFOS (federal limit 4 ng/L each) among them.

Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Avon Lake City (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.

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 Lagrange Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 43.4 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 57.9 µg/L and the highest single sample was 75.7 µg/L, from 56 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.

For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 20.8 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 29.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 49.5 µg/L, from 56 samples.

Disinfection byproducts in the distribution system
ByproductLimitLatest yearly averageWorst yearly averageHighest sampleSamples
TTHM80 µg/L43.4 µg/L (2019)57.9 µg/L75.7 µg/L56
HAA560 µg/L20.8 µg/L29.6 µg/L49.5 µg/L56

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

The water Lagrange Village buys is treated by Avon Lake City, so the results below are Avon Lake City's.

Nitrate: the highest of 96 samples was 1.41 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2018; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 1.06 mg/L. 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).

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity in finished water, 2012 to 2019
ContaminantSamplesHighest resultLimitSamples over limit
Nitrate (as nitrogen)961.41 mg/L10 mg/L0
Arsenic8not detected10 µg/L0
Combined radium2not detected5 pCi/L0

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 of Avon Lake City.

Solvents and fuels

The water Lagrange Village buys is treated by Avon Lake City, so the results below are Avon Lake City's.

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.

Solvents and fuels in finished water, 2012 to 2019
CompoundLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
Benzene5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
Carbon tetrachloride5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
1,2-dichloroethane5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
Trichloroethylene (TCE)5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
Vinyl chloride2 µg/L80 of 8not detected0

"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 of Avon Lake City.

Farm chemicals and metals

The water Lagrange Village buys is treated by Avon Lake City, so the results below are Avon Lake City's.

EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 8 of 8 samples, highest 32.9 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 8 samples, alachlor in 8 samples, chromium in 8 samples, cadmium in 8 samples, mercury in 8 samples, selenium in 8 samples, thallium in 9 samples.

Herbicides and metals in finished water, 2012 to 2019
SubstanceKindLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
AtrazineFarm chemical3 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
AlachlorFarm chemical2 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
ChromiumMetal100 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
CadmiumMetal5 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
BariumMetal2,000 µg/L88 of 832.9 µg/L0
MercuryMetal2 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
SeleniumMetal50 µg/L80 of 8not detected0
ThalliumMetal2 µg/L90 of 9not detected0

Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Avon Lake City.

Bacteria in the pipes

From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 192 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Lagrange Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 24 did.

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 Lagrange Village buys its water from Ashland City, a system that adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.

EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Avon Lake City, which treats the water Lagrange Village buys.

Measured fluoride: 0.92 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Avon Lake City, which supplies Lagrange Village, in 2019 (above the 0.7 mg/L level now recommended and well under the 4 mg/L limit); samples ran from 0.91 to 1.09 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.

Lithium

Lithium was not detected in 4 UCMR 5 samples at Avon Lake City, which supplies Lagrange Village, last sampled in 2024 (the method reports from 9 µg/L).

Lithium is not regulated. EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026), samples from 2023 to 2025.

Algal toxins

The water Lagrange Village buys is treated by Avon Lake City, so the results below are Avon Lake City's.

Ohio EPA tests for microcystin, a toxin that harmful algal blooms can release, in raw water at the intake and in treated water.

At the intake, microcystin was detected 8 times in 285 raw-water samples, across 4 bloom seasons (2016 to 2025); the highest raw-water result was 0.72 µg/L on October 4, 2016. The highest raw-water result since 2024 was 0.254 µg/L.

Microcystin was never detected in treated water (285 samples).

In all, 570 samples from 2016 to 2026, the latest on August 25, 2026.

Microcystin results
WaterSamplesDetectionsHighest result
Raw water, at the intake28580.72 µg/L
Treated water2850not 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 Lagrange Village 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

LaGrange, Ohio's municipal water tower, photographed September 2016
LaGrange, Ohio's municipal water tower, photographed September 2016Photo: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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

EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH4700603 (EPA ECHO).

Notable facts: villageoflagrangeohio.gov, rlcwa.com

History: villageoflagrangeohio.gov, rlcwa.com, villageoflagrangeohio.gov

Water quality: cms9files.revize.com

Planned work: dam.assets.ohio.gov, villageoflagrangeohio.gov

Rates: rlcwa.com, villageoflagrangeohio.gov

Sewers: villageoflagrangeohio.gov, villageoflagrangeohio.gov

Treatment: cms9files.revize.com

Supply stress: cms9files.revize.com

Quick answers

Where does Lagrange Village get its water?

Lagrange Village buys its water from Rural Lorain Co. Water A.

How many people does Lagrange Village serve?

Lagrange Village serves about 2,400 people, and is the main water system for 1 ZIP code.

Who owns Lagrange Village?

Lagrange Village is owned by a local government.

Is there lead in Lagrange Village water?

In 2025 testing, Lagrange Village's 90th-percentile lead level in tap samples was <1 ppb (the federal action level is 15 ppb). 0 of 32 samples exceeded the lead action level. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.

How much fluoride is in Lagrange Village water?

Lagrange Village reported fluoride at 1.16 ppm in 2025. New London source component; blend also includes Avon Lake 0.71 ppm and Ashland 1.07 ppm. Confirmed in RLCWA's 2025 CCR.

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