Water system
Seville Village
EPA ID OH5201412 · Medina County · 2,296 people served · owned by a local government
Seville Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 2,296 people · Medina County
- EPA ID
- OH5201412
About this area's water
Did you know
- Seville was home to Captain Martin Van Buren Bates - 7 ft 8 in and 470 lb by age 28 - and his wife Anna Swan Bates, 7 ft 11 in and 413 lb at 22. The 'Giants of Seville' settled in the village in 1873, toured Europe…
- Arsenic in Seville's raw groundwater runs close enough to the federal 10 ppb limit (7.99 ppb in 2025) that the sand filtration installed with the 2006 plant is what keeps the village compliant.
- One body, the Seville Board of Public Affairs, runs four utilities: electric, water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer. Its electric side is a non-profit public power system serving more than 2,000 customers, one of about…
- BOPA's website carries a standing correction to Google: it states the Village of Seville has never issued pool credits against sanitary sewer charges for filling a swimming pool.
History3
- 1873Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and his wife Anna Swan Bates - the 'Giants of Seville' - relocated to the village, becoming its best-known historical figures. A commemorative sign stands at Stanhope…
- 1989Village wastewater treatment plant built as a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) facility.
- 2006Current water treatment plant began operation in May 2006, treating water from the two Eby Road wells.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater drawn from an aquifer on Eby Road just south of the Medina County line (Wayne County side), via two village wells. The treatment plant has been in operation since May 2006 and uses sand filtration to remove iron and arsenic, water softening, and chlorination. The well field is capable…
Source: sevillebopa.orgsevillebopa.org
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor any Seville BOPA page gives system pressure in psi or describes pressure zones.
Source: sevillebopa.orgsevillebopa.org
What it costs
Seville BOPA publishes no water or sanitary sewer rate schedule online - the home page, the utility information page and the bill-information page all omit dollar amounts. The…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic Range of detections 3.6-7.99 ppb. Removed by the plant's sand filtration; the CCR carries the required arsenic… | 7.99 ppb | 10 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits. | 0.059 ppm | 2 ppm (MCL) | 2024 |
| Fluoride Erosion of natural deposits. (CCR spells it 'Floride'.) | 0.394 ppm | 4 ppm (MCL) | 2024 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Disinfection byproduct; range 19.1-33.9 ppb. | 33.9 ppb | 80 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Disinfection byproduct; range 3.12-4.59 ppb. | 4.59 ppb | 60 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Total Chlorine Disinfectant residual; range 1.0-2.2 ppm. | 2.2 ppm | 4 ppm (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero individual results over the action level. The CCR's sample-count line literally reads '0 out of 0 samples,' an… | 3.8 ppb | 15 ppb (Action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero individual results over the action level; same '0 out of 0' sample-count typo in the CCR. | 0.097 ppm | 1.3 ppm (Action… | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha Not detected. | ND (not… pCi/L | 15 pCi/L (MCL) | 2021 |
| Radium Not detected. | ND (not… pCi/L | 5 pCi/L (MCL) | 2021 |
Source: sevillebopa.org
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
Elevated risk at the source. Seville's 2025 CCR states the Eby Road aquifer has a high susceptibility to contamination, due to the sensitive nature of the aquifer in which the well is located and the potential contaminant sources identified - while stressing this does not mean the well field will become contaminated, only that conditions…
Source: sevillebopa.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Seville Board of Public Affairs operates the village sanitary sewer and a sequencing batch reactor wastewater treatment plant built in 1989. Plant capacity, receiving stream, and any CSO or consent-decree status are not published online.
Storm
BOPA runs a separate storm sewer system funded by a flat $6.00 per month per-customer fee, which pays for maintenance and rebuilding of the village storm sewers. BOPA's utilities serve Seville plus portions of Guilford and Westfield townships. No flooding…
Source: sevillebopa.orgsevillebopa.org
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
- 44273 · Seville36% 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
Seville 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 Seville 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
Notable facts: villageofseville.org, sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org
History: villageofseville.org, sevillebopa.org
Water quality: sevillebopa.org
Water pressure: sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org
Rates: sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org
Sewers: sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org
Treatment: sevillebopa.org, sevillebopa.org
Supply stress: sevillebopa.org