Noble County Water Authority

• Noble County Water Authority's primary source, Wolf Run Lake, sits inside Wolf Run State Park, a 220-acre lake acquired by the state in 1963 and dedicated as a park in 1968.
• Belle Valley's history includes the May 1913 Imperial No. 3 coal-mine explosion, which killed 15 miners in a village of only about 1,000 people at the time.
• The authority relies on purchased wholesale water (from suppliers including Noble Water Company and Caldwell Village) rather than operating its own treatment plant.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgtile.loc.govnoblecountyohio.gov

• 1857Caldwell, Ohio (home of NCWA wholesale supplier Caldwell Village) founded and named for Joseph and Samuel Caldwell.
• 1905Belle Valley, anchor of NCWA's Belle Valley ZIP, incorporated after the Cleveland and Marietta Railroad reached the area.
• 1963-1968Wolf Run State Park land acquired in 1963 and dedicated in 1968; its 220-acre Wolf Run Lake is the authority's primary source reservoir.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org

How it is treated

Not confirmed by any primary NCWA source this session. NCWA does not treat its own water (treats_own_water: false); web sources describe a separately-operated 'Caldwell Water Works Treatment Plant' using Wolf Run Lake as its source, consistent with NCWA buying finished/wholesale water from…

Water pressure

Not published; no PSI figure located for Noble County Water Authority in any source reviewed.

No water rate schedule was found this session. The authority's own webpage publishes only a SEWER usage rate of $9.22 per 1,000 gallons plus flat monthly charges -- this is a…

Source: noblecountyohio.gov

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Caldwell Village (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Wolf Run Lake is a relatively small 220-acre impoundment used as the primary source, backed by Caldwell Lake (roughly 500-million-gallon storage) as a secondary reservoir, suggesting built-in redundancy. No drought, algal-bloom, or capacity data specific to this system was found this session.

Sanitary

The authority's own webpage publishes sewer billing (a $9.22/1,000-gallon usage charge plus flat monthly charges), indicating it administers sewer billing for at least part of its area, but no description of Belle Valley's sanitary collection/treatment infrastructure was found. Smaller Noble County villages often rely on septic systems…

Storm

Not confirmed this session -- no source located.

Source: noblecountyohio.gov

Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources. Little is published about this system, so details are thin.