Water system
New Lebanon Village
EPA ID OH5701812 · Montgomery County · 3,770 people served · owned by a local government
New Lebanon Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 3,770 people · Montgomery County
- EPA ID
- OH5701812
About this area's water
Did you know
- The village's wells tap an aquifer more than 80 feet down beneath a thick clay layer, which Ohio EPA's source water assessment says gives it a low susceptibility to contamination.
- The 2025 report corrects the prior year's homework: it tells readers the 2024 CCR listed gross alpha as 2.75 pCi/L when the actual result was 0.275 pCi/L.
- Small-system reality check - the lead paragraph of New Lebanon's 2025 CCR still says "The Village of Farmersville is responsible for providing high quality drinking water," a leftover from the template it was built from.
- In 2025 one of 20 lead-and-copper sampling sites came back above the 15 ppb lead action level, yet the system's 90th-percentile result was just 1.2 ppb - a reminder that lead risk in this system is house-by-house…
Source: newlebanonoh.gov
History3
- 1843New Lebanon was platted; a post office called Medill opened in 1847 and was renamed New Lebanon in 1849.
- 1878The village was incorporated.
- 1979The village charter took effect on January 1, 1979.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The village treats its own groundwater. Per the 2025 Consumer Confidence Report, all drinking water comes from three groundwater production wells located next to the village water treatment plant in the northeast section of the village near Bear Creek, and the village held an unconditional Ohio EPA…
Source: newlebanonoh.govdata.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No system pressure figure appears in the CCR, on the village water pages, or in Ohio EPA/SDWIS records reviewed.
What it costs
No rate schedule is published. The village water page states only that "Water bills are due monthly and include water, sewer, and trash" and that bills can be paid online through…
Source: newlebanonoh.govnewlebanonoh.gov
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile) Below the action level, but the CCR states 1 of 20 sampled sites was above 15 ppb. | 1.2 ppb | 15 ppb action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 20 sites above the action level. | 0.191 ppm | 1.3 ppm action… | 2025 |
| Nitrate Runoff or leaching from fertilized soil, wastewater or septic systems; about 9% of the MCL. | 0.922 ppm | 10 ppm MCL | 2024 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits. | 0.0912 ppm | 2.0 ppm MCL | 2024 |
| Fluoride Very low - essentially natural background, not an optimized fluoridation level. | 0.026 ppm | 4.0 ppm MCL | 2024 |
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 0.00-2.5 ppb; chlorination byproduct. | 2.5 ppb | 80 ppb MCL | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Not detected. | 0.000 ppb | 60 ppb MCL | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Range 0.57-3.86 ppm. | 2.22 ppm | 4 ppm MRDL | 2025 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate Discharge from rubber and chemical factories. | 0.26 ppb | 6 ppb MCL | 2025 |
| Gross alpha The 2025 CCR publishes a correction: the 2024 report had misprinted this as 2.75 pCi/L. | 0.275 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L MCL | 2024 |
Source: newlebanonoh.govdata.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.5 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
Supply stress
No drought, yield or capacity data is published. The Ohio EPA source water assessment quoted in the CCR rates the aquifer's susceptibility to contamination as low, citing a thick protective clay layer, an aquifer more than 80 feet below the surface, and no evidence of significant human-caused chemical contamination. Nitrate at 0.922 ppm…
Source: newlebanonoh.govnewlebanonoh.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
The village bills water, sewer and trash together on one monthly utility bill, so New Lebanon handles its own sanitary sewer billing. No wastewater plant name, capacity or receiving stream is published on the village site.
Storm
Not published.
Source: newlebanonoh.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
- 45345 · New Lebanon61% 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
New Lebanon 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 New Lebanon Village.
What the records show about New Lebanon Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes New Lebanon Village as owned by a local government. It has 1,691 service connections and serves 3,770 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 2025. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 937-813-0720.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for New Lebanon Village: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, and sand or media filtration.
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's record shows no health-based violations for New Lebanon Village since 2015.
EPA logs 3 violations of any kind since 2020: 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
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 New Lebanon Village was 1.5 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 5 ppb, in the period ending December 2018.
EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for New Lebanon Village since 2016, the first ending in 2016; 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 New Lebanon Village sent EPA, 1,733 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 1 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 1,732 |
| All lines | 1,733 |
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 3 samples of the water entering the pipes of New Lebanon Village in 2023 to 2024 and measured 29 PFAS. No PFAS was detected, PFOA and PFOS (federal limit 4 ng/L each) among them.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of New Lebanon Village (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 New Lebanon Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 3.8 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 34.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 37.8 µg/L, from 15 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 1.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 10.4 µg/L and the highest single sample was 11.9 µg/L, from 15 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 3.8 µg/L (2019) | 34.7 µg/L | 37.8 µg/L | 15 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 1.7 µg/L | 10.4 µg/L | 11.9 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 0.55 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2015; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. 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 | 0.55 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 98.7 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 4 samples, alachlor in 4 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 | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | 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 | 98.7 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 410 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at New Lebanon Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 49 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 New Lebanon Village has fluoride from natural sources at the recommended level for preventing tooth decay. The level it reports is 1.2 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at New Lebanon Village.
Measured fluoride: 1.27 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2018 (above the target); samples ran from 1.14 to 1.27 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.
Lithium
Lithium was not detected in 2 UCMR 5 samples at New Lebanon 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.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of New Lebanon 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 3,617 residents are inside the boundary, 96% of the 3,770 people New Lebanon 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.
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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 OH5701812 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: newlebanonoh.gov
History: en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: newlebanonoh.gov, data.epa.gov
Rates: newlebanonoh.gov, newlebanonoh.gov
Sewers: newlebanonoh.gov
Treatment: newlebanonoh.gov, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: newlebanonoh.gov, newlebanonoh.gov