Water system
Whitehouse Village
EPA ID OH4801612 · Lucas County · 5,200 people served · owned by a local government
Whitehouse Village buys its water from Toledo City Of.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie
- Raw intakes
- Toledo Lake Erie
- Serves
- 360,000 people · Lucas County
- EPA ID
- OH4801411
About this area's water
Did you know
- 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.
History6
- 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.
Treatment & pressure
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…
Source: whitehouseoh.govwhitehouseoh.gov
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.
Source: whitehouseoh.govwhitehouseoh.gov
What it costs
$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…
Source: whitehouseoh.gov
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes) Highest annual average; single-sample range 22.7-65.9 across quarterly distribution monitoring. No violation. | 59.35 ppb | 80 (MCL) | 2025 |
| HAA5 (Haloacetic Acids) Highest annual average; range 4.5-10.4. No violation. | 10.10 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate (as N) Range <0.1-2.36. No violation. | 1.22 ppm | 10 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.98-1.06. | 1.00 ppm | 4 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Chlorite Range <0.10-0.14; byproduct of disinfection at the Toledo plant. | 0.07 ppm | 1 (MCL) | 2022 |
| Chlorine (as Cl2) Range 1.18-1.32. | 1.24 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero samples exceeded the action level. | 1.1 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero samples exceeded the action level. | 0.04 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2024 |
| PFOA UCMR5 monitoring; average 0.0012 ppb, range ND-0.0012. PFOS averaged 0.00096 ppb and PFBS 0.0011 ppb. | 0.0012 ppb | 4 ppt (2024… | 2025 |
| Turbidity (% of samples meeting… The one violation on the regulated table, tied to Toledo's March 2023 filtration failure. In 2025 the highest single… | 90.9 % | 95% required | 2023 |
Source: whitehouseoh.gov
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) · above the legal limit on average · measured 0.081 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · above the legal limit on average · 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 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
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.
Projects & plans3
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.
Source: whitehouseoh.govwhitehouseoh.govdata.epa.gov
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…
Source: whitehouseoh.gov
Supply stress
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…
Source: whitehouseoh.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
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.
Source: whitehouseoh.govwhitehouseoh.gov
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
- 43571 · Whitehouse62% 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
Whitehouse Village buys its water from Toledo City Of.
No other system is on record buying water from Whitehouse Village.
What the records show about Whitehouse Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Whitehouse Village as owned by a local government. It has 2,023 service connections and serves 5,200 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 419-877-5383.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
Whitehouse Village buys water that Toledo City Of treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Toledo City Of: corrosion control, chlorine dioxide, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, lime softening, ozone, powdered activated carbon, and sand or media filtration.
Whitehouse Village itself also registers: aeration.
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 Whitehouse Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. They fall into 2 separate problems (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists them all.
EPA logs a violation for each compliance period a problem lasts, so the count of 4 includes 2 repeat entries of the problems listed.
EPA logs 1 violation of any kind 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).
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) | above the legal limit on average | 0.081 mg/L | 0.08 mg/L | returned to compliance |
| 2017 | Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) | above the legal limit on average | 0.089 mg/L | 0.08 mg/L | 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 Whitehouse Village was 1.1 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 7 sampling periods on file for Whitehouse Village since 2016, the first ending in 2017; 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 Whitehouse Village sent EPA, 1,994 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 16 |
| Not lead | 1,978 |
| All lines | 1,994 |
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
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 8 samples of the water entering the pipes of Whitehouse Village in 2023 and measured 29 PFAS.
PFOA and PFOS were not detected, against a federal limit of 4 ng/L each.
The highest PFAS result was PFBA 11 ng/L.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Toledo City Of (latest sample August 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Toledo City Of as sampled, most recently March 2025.
| Compound | Highest result | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| PFOA | not detected | 4 ng/L |
| PFOS | not detected | 4 ng/L |
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 Whitehouse Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 53.9 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 80.3 µg/L and the highest single sample was 125 µg/L, from 67 samples taken from 2012 to 2019. A yearly average over 80 is not itself a violation, because compliance is judged site by site.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 17.3 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 21.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 31.8 µg/L, from 65 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 53.9 µg/L (2019) | 80.3 µg/L | 125 µg/L | 67 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 17.3 µg/L | 21.7 µg/L | 31.8 µg/L | 65 |
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 Whitehouse Village buys is treated by Toledo City Of, so the results below are Toledo City Of's.
Nitrate: the highest of 97 samples was 4.35 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2018; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 2.21 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).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 97 | 4.35 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 8 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
| Combined radium | 1 | not detected | 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 of Toledo City Of.
Solvents and fuels
The water Whitehouse Village buys is treated by Toledo City Of, so the results below are Toledo City Of'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.
| 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 of Toledo City Of.
Farm chemicals and metals
The water Whitehouse Village buys is treated by Toledo City Of, so the results below are Toledo City Of's.
EPA's file holds results for all nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: atrazine in 6 of 26 samples, highest 0.3 µg/L (limit 3); barium in 1 of 8 samples, highest 10 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: alachlor in 26 samples, 2,4-D in 3 samples, chromium in 8 samples, cadmium in 8 samples, mercury in 8 samples, selenium in 8 samples, thallium in 8 samples.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 26 | 6 of 26 | 0.3 µg/L | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 26 | 0 of 26 | not detected | 0 |
| 2,4-D | Farm chemical | 70 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | 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 | 1 of 8 | 10 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 of Toledo City Of.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 1 of 505 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Whitehouse Village tested positive (0.2%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 72 did. E. coli was never found in the 1 sample tested for it.
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 Whitehouse Village buys its water from Toledo City Of, 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 Toledo City Of, which treats the water Whitehouse Village buys.
Measured fluoride: 0.85 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Toledo City Of, which supplies Whitehouse Village, in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.85 to 1.08 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 8 UCMR 5 samples at Whitehouse Village, last sampled in 2023 (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 Whitehouse Village buys is treated by Toledo City Of, so the results below are Toledo City Of'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 95 times in 464 raw-water samples, across 11 bloom seasons (2016 to 2026); the highest raw-water result was 9.91 µg/L on July 30, 2019. The highest raw-water result since 2024 was 4.78 µg/L.
Microcystin was never detected in treated water (433 samples).
In all, 897 samples from 2016 to 2026, the latest on August 25, 2026.
| Water | Samples | Detections | Highest result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw water, at the intake | 464 | 95 | 9.91 µg/L |
| Treated water | 433 | 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 Whitehouse 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 4,816 residents are inside the boundary, 93% of the 5,200 people Whitehouse 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 OH4801612 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov
History: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov, data.epa.gov, whitehouseoh.gov
Water quality: whitehouseoh.gov
Planned work: whitehouseoh.gov
Water pressure: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov
Capital projects: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov, data.epa.gov
Rates: whitehouseoh.gov
Sewers: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov
Treatment: whitehouseoh.gov, whitehouseoh.gov
Supply stress: whitehouseoh.gov, data.epa.gov