Mt Gilead Village

• Mount Gilead softens its water by ion exchange, and the fingerprint shows up in the plant's own lab data: sodium averaged 158 mg/L in 2025 and peaked at 202 mg/L, while finished hardness averaged 136 mg/L.
• The 2025 lead and copper round put the 90th-percentile lead result at 12.64 ppb, just under the 15 ppb action level, with 2 of 20 sampled homes above the action level.
• The water plant was banned from selling bulk water after hydrant use was discovered, so the Phase 1 project includes a new bulk water fill station with a keypad, receipt printer and flow meter to sell it properly.
• The village's sewage treatment plant generates its own electricity from a solar array and publishes the output live on the web.
• Searching for 'Mt. Gilead' online is a trap: mtgilead.org belongs to a Christian camp and conference center in Sebastopol, California, not the Morrow County village, whose site is mountgilead.net.

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• 1817Settlement began at the site, listed under the name Whetsom though generally called Youngstown, per the Village of Mount Gilead's own local-history page.
• 1832The Ohio legislature changed the name to Mount Gilead; the village was incorporated in 1839.
• 1848Morrow County was formed and Mount Gilead became the county seat; the village's population was about 400.
• 2012Ohio EPA completed a Source Water Susceptibility Analysis for the Mt. Gilead well field, rating its susceptibility to contamination as moderate.
• 2025Council approved raising the base water rate $5 per year for 2026, 2027 and 2028 (March), and in the same month the village nominated its water treatment plant Phase 1 project for an Ohio EPA Water…
• 2025Bid package for the WTP Improvements Phase 1 project advertised September 19 and bids opened November 12, with an 18-month construction period scheduled to run January 2026 to July 2027.

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How it is treated

Five village-owned wells in the north-central part of town, just east of State Route 61 with an access drive at 352 E. Union Street, draw from the Johnstown Complex sand-and-gravel aquifer (more than 20 feet to water, under roughly 50 feet of glacial till). Water is treated at the village's own…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor the GPD Group WTP improvements presentation states a typical distribution pressure; the presentation only notes that a new plant pressure…

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$6.36 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $43 a month for water.

Codified Ordinance 911.01 (last amended by Ord. 1674, passed 7-16-12) sets a minimum charge of $20.72 per month for the first 300 cubic feet and $4.76 per 100 cubic feet above…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 12.6 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

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

Recent and current work

• Mt. Gilead WTP Improvements, Phase 1 - construction · $6.3 million · 2026 · under construction
  GPD Group engineer's estimate of probable construction cost, including a $400,000 contingency that may not be used. Scope: three new 0.5 MGD iron filters…
• Phase 1 construction management, observation and technical assistance · $450,000 · 2026 · under construction
  Separate from the construction estimate, per the GPD Group funding slide.

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Planned or needed

• Mt. Gilead WTP Improvements, Phase 2 · planned
  Scope named in the GPD presentation: new motor control center, new generator, new HVAC and miscellaneous domestic plumbing, and a new aerator. No cost estimate…

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Groundwater from a five-well field in the Johnstown Complex sand-and-gravel aquifer. Ohio EPA's April 2012 susceptibility analysis rates the source moderately susceptible: more than 20 feet of depth to water and roughly 50 feet of glacial till give some protection, but significant potential contaminant sources exist within the protection…

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Sanitary

The village owns and operates its own sanitary sewer system and sewage treatment plant. The plant runs partly on an on-site solar array, which the village describes as a 650 kW array with a public real-time generation dashboard, and uses ultraviolet disinfection: in 2025 council authorized an emergency payment of $20,125 to Trojan Tech…

Storm

The village maintains storm sewers - the water ordinance requires below-grade meter pits to drain to a storm sewer where practical, and council minutes in 2025 record storm drain and sewer issues resolved after heavy rainfall - but no storm sewer system…

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