Whitehouse Village

• Whitehouse gave up its own wells in November 2002 — its tap water now starts at a Toledo intake set a considerable distance offshore in Lake Erie and reaches the village through Lucas County pipes.
• The village asks residents not to do laundry on Thursdays, because that is hydrant flushing day and the water can run discolored for a while.
• Toledo's Collins Park plant collected 48 raw-water samples for Giardia and Cryptosporidium between April 2015 and March 2022 and found exactly one Cryptosporidium cell in the whole run.
• The 2026 fee schedule prices a water shut-off and turn-on at $20, but tampering with a meter or unauthorized hydrant use costs $250 each.
• Whitehouse holds a 'green' license to operate from Ohio EPA — issued without any special conditions.

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• 2002In November 2002 Whitehouse abandoned its village well system and connected to the Lucas County Water System, which in turn contracts with the City of Toledo for Lake Erie water.
• 2017-2018Whitehouse exceeded the TTHM maximum contaminant level in four consecutive quarters — 0.082, 0.089, 0.083 and 0.081 mg/L against an 0.080 mg/L limit, from Q2 2017 through Q1 2018. Ohio EPA recorded…
• 2022Ohio EPA issued the village a notice of violation of the Consumer Confidence Rule on January 7, 2022 for failing to provide customers the annual report on drinking water quality.
• 2023Whitehouse's supplier, Toledo's Collins Park plant, failed to provide adequate filtration on March 15, 2023; filters 1-10 and basins 1-2 were upgraded and placed online March 27, 2023. Only 90.9% of…
• 2025170.759 million gallons of Toledo-supplied water passed through the village system, a 9.03% increase over 2024, with a peak day of 0.849 MG on September 2.
• 2026New rate and fee schedule effective January 1, 2026: $19.44 monthly minimum for the first 2,000 gallons and $9.72 per 1,000 gallons thereafter inside the village.

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How it is treated

Whitehouse does no treatment of its own. It buys fully treated Lake Erie water from the City of Toledo's Collins Park Water Treatment Plant through an agreement with Toledo and Lucas County. Toledo's intake sits a considerable distance offshore in Lake Erie, which the village's report credits with…

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Water pressure

Not published. No village pressure-zone map or psi figures appear in the water quality reports, the fee schedule or the water and sewer service pages.

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$9.72 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $41 a month for water.

Effective January 1, 2026 (Schedule of Rates and Fees, Exhibit A). Inside the village: $19.44 minimum for one month or up to 2,000 gallons, then $9.72 per 1,000 gallons, plus a…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2018Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.081 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.089 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 4 includes 2 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Toledo City Of (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.

Recent and current work

• Collins Park WTP infrastructure improvements ('The Plan') · 2023-2025 · under construction
  Toledo's ongoing multi-year upgrade of the regional plant that supplies Whitehouse; filters 1-10 and basins 1-2 were upgraded and placed online March 27, 2023…
• Whitehouse lead service line survey · 2026 · completed
  The village published its lead line survey results in January 2026 under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions.

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Planned or needed

• Continued Collins Park WTP capital program · planned
  The City of Toledo continues phased plant improvements on behalf of the Toledo Regional Water Commission, whose members include Toledo, Sylvania, Maumee…

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Low direct stress on quantity but total dependence on someone else's source: Whitehouse abandoned its wells in 2002 and now has no supply of its own, so its water security rides entirely on Toledo's Lake Erie intake and the Toledo Regional Water Commission. The exposure is to Lake Erie's harmful algal bloom and turbidity risk at the…

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Sanitary

The village operates its own sanitary collection system, pumping sewage through several lift stations to the Regional Pump Station on Finzel Road and from there to the Lucas County Wastewater Treatment Plant on Jerome Road. Sewer is billed at $13.82 per month for the first 2,000 gallons and $6.91 per 1,000 thereafter inside the village…

Storm

Separate storm sewer system with its own stormwater management and pollution prevention programs; the storm sewer tap fee for village residents is $100. No specific flooding problem is documented.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.