Water system
Syracuse Village
EPA ID OH5300512 · Meigs County · 826 people served · owned by a local government
Syracuse Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Syracuse Village as buying its water from Pomeroy Village; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Pomeroy Village as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 826 people · Meigs County
- EPA ID
- OH5300512
About this area's water
Did you know
- Sits directly on the Ohio River in Meigs County.
- Population peaked at 1,545 in 1880 and had fallen to 781 by the 2020 census.
- Hometown of MLB catcher Rollie Hemsley.
- Keeps an existing emergency purchase interconnection with neighboring Pomeroy village's water system as backup to its two wells (active in SDWIS facility records).
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History4
- 1880Village population peaked at 1,545 residents, per census figures.
- 2020Census population 781, down from 826 in 2010 and roughly half the 1880 peak.
- 2020-2026EPA logs recurring violations over the yearly water quality report (the Consumer Confidence Report): marked inadequate in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026, and not issued in 2024.
- 2024-2026EPA logged a lead service line inventory violation on 10/17/2024, the day after inventories were due, with a related reporting violation. It is a records requirement, not a lead test result or a treatment failure. EPA shows both returned to compliance on 1/15/2025; a 2025 violation over the yearly notice owed to customers whose service line is lead or may be lead is open.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from two active wells (0N01 and 0S01, SDWIS facility IDs 15444/15445) with post-chlorination (hypochlorination, facility ID 5556) before distribution. The village also holds an existing emergency purchase interconnection with Pomeroy Village's water system (SDWIS facility 21286, 'CC FROM POMEROY VILLAGE PWS') as a backup source.
What it costs
Syracuse is administered through its fiscal officer's office rather than a dedicated utility website.
Water quality & impurities2
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead service line inventory EPA logged the inventory violation 10/17/2024 and shows it returned to compliance 1/15/2025. A records violation, not lead found in water. | N/A violation | N/A | 2024-2026 |
| Yearly water quality report Report marked inadequate in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026 and not issued in 2024, per EPA; not measured contamination events. | N/A violation | N/A | 2020-2026 |
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule Revisions · lead service line inventory missing or incomplete (a records requirement, not a lead test result) · returned to compliance
8 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 7 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.
Supply stress
Two-well groundwater system with an existing emergency backup interconnect to neighboring Pomeroy's water system. EPA's record shows a lead service line inventory violation from October 2024, since returned to compliance, an open 2025 violation over lead service line notices, and water quality report violations running into 2026. These are records and notice requirements, not test results or a treatment failure.
Sources
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 45779 · Syracuse100% of residents
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 45771 · Sutton Township and Racine2% of residents
- 45769 · Pomeroy1% 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
Syracuse 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 Syracuse Village.
What the records show about Syracuse Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Syracuse Village as owned by a local government. It has 391 service connections and serves 826 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
EPA's record says it has substantially implemented source water protection under Ohio's program, dating the program from 2023. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 740-992-7777.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Syracuse Village: chlorine disinfection.
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 1 health-based violation for Syracuse Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. It falls into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.
EPA logs 8 violations of any kind since 2020: 7 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lead and Copper Rule Revisions | lead service line inventory missing or incomplete (a records requirement, not a lead test result) | not on file | not on file | 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 November 2026).
Lead and copper at the tap
In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Syracuse Village was 4.2 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Syracuse 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 Syracuse Village sent EPA, 380 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 380 |
| Not lead | 0 |
| All lines | 380 |
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
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Syracuse Village (latest sample March 2021). 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 Syracuse Village as sampled, most recently March 2026.
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 Syracuse Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 4.8 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 11.4 µg/L and the highest single sample was 19.9 µg/L, from 15 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 0 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 0 µg/L and the highest single sample was 0 µg/L, from 15 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 4.8 µg/L (2019) | 11.4 µg/L | 19.9 µg/L | 15 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 15 |
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
Nitrate: the highest of 8 samples was 2.25 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2013; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 1.88 mg/L. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 8 | 2.25 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | not detected | 10 µg/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.
Solvents and fuels
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 3 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | 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.
Farm chemicals and metals
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 94 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 2 samples, alachlor in 2 samples, chromium in 3 samples, cadmium in 3 samples, mercury in 3 samples, selenium in 3 samples, thallium in 3 samples.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 94 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | 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.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 96 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Syracuse Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 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 Syracuse Village buys its water from Pomeroy Village, a system that has fluoride from natural sources, but at a level below what is recommended for preventing tooth decay, and does not adjust it. The level it reports is 0.16 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Syracuse Village.
Measured fluoride: every sample at the plant's entry points in 2018 was below the 0.2 mg/L reporting limit; detected samples in earlier years ran at 0.13 mg/L across 3 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.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Syracuse 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
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 3 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 OH5300512 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org