Dresden

• Dresden sits on or near the site of Wakatomika, a Shawnee village burned in 1774 during Lord Dunmore's War.
• A 1,000-foot suspension bridge built in 1852 across the Muskingum River at Dresden was reportedly the third suspension bridge ever built in the United States; it was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1913.
• Federal drinking-water records list Dresden's public water system as privately owned, with 950 service connections for a population served of about 2,000 — while the village government separately operates its own…

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• 1799First settlers (Jonathan Cass and Seth Adams) claimed land in the area that became Dresden, on/near the former Shawnee village of Wakatomika.
• 1835Village of Dresden incorporated (March 9).
• 1852A 1,000-foot suspension bridge, reportedly the third suspension bridge built in the United States, was completed over the Muskingum River.
• 1913The Great Flood of 1913 destroyed the 1852 suspension bridge.
• 2016EPA SDWIS records show a monitoring/reporting violation opening in the water system in December 2015-January 2016, returned to compliance by September 2016.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov

How it is treated

Groundwater from 3 wells; the specific treatment train (filtration, disinfection type) for the drinking-water system was not found in any source reached this session, including no locatable Consumer Confidence Report for the private owner of PWSID OH6000212.

Water pressure

Not published; no pressure or pressure-zone data found.

No rate schedule found. EPA's federal inventory lists this drinking-water system's owner type as "Private" (confirmed again this session via the WATER_SYSTEM record), which is…

Source: data.epa.govvillageofdresden.com

Source: data.epa.gov

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 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).

Planned or needed

• USDA Rural Development grant for wastewater infrastructure · $1.3 million · unknown
  A U.S. Senate press release describes a $1.25 million USDA Rural Development award to the Village of Dresden for wastewater infrastructure/a new treatment…

Small groundwater drinking-water system (~2,000 population served, 950 service connections per EPA record) drawing from 3 wells; an open, unresolved reporting violation since December 2024 suggests administrative/compliance strain on the private owner. Separately, the village's own wastewater treatment plant (400,000 gpd design flow) is…

Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov

Sanitary

Confirmed via Ohio EPA NPDES permit renewal (Public Notice 204116, June 2024): the Village of Dresden operates its own "Village of Dresden WWTP" at 30 Lock Street, a Class II treatment works with a 400,000 gpd (0.40 MGD) design flow, discharging to the Muskingum River at River Mile 91.7 under Ohio EPA Permit 0PB00012*ND. This sanitary…

Storm

Not published in sources reached this session.

Source: dam.assets.ohio.gov

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