Water system
Elmore Village
EPA ID OH6200712 · Ottawa County · 1,421 people served · owned by a local government
Elmore Village buys its water from Ottawa County Regional Water District.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie
- Raw intakes
- Lake Erie
- Serves
- 20,428 people · Ottawa County
- EPA ID
- OH6205011
Own surface water intake directly from Lake Erie (Ottawa County Regional Water District supplies water to other systems in the area, e.g. Put-in-Bay via pipeline/ferry and Carroll Twp).
About this area's water
Did you know
- Elmore switched its entire water supply from four local wells to purchased Lake Erie water via a new 4.38-mile pipeline that went live in October 2024, after the wells fell out of compliance with 300-foot…
- The village's electric utility (AMP) delivers power over a 69kV Toledo Edison transmission line to two substations serving about 930 meters across 15 miles of distribution line.
- Ottawa County's regional treatment plant ran over 39,000 raw/process/finished water tests in 2025 confirming full compliance; separate EPA testing in 2020 found zero detections across a 6-chemical PFAS panel in the Lake…
History5
- 1851Village surveyed and platted on October 2, 1851, in the drained Great Black Swamp region along the Portage River (confirmed via Wikipedia).
- 1950sOhio Turnpike construction bypassed the village, leaving abandoned motels/restaurants along former US Route 20.
- 1997A new Ohio Turnpike interchange near Elmore spurred renewed development.
- 2014Village built a new oxidation-ditch wastewater treatment plant (confirmed via village utilities page).
- October 2024Elmore completed a 4.38-mile, 12-inch waterline connection to Ottawa County Regional Water (a Lake Erie surface-water treatment plant) and switched its water supply, ending reliance on its four prior…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgpresspublications.comvillage.elmore.oh.us
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Elmore now buys finished water from Ottawa County Regional Water, which draws Lake Erie water through a submerged intake and treats it before distribution; the county's water is fluoridated and chlorine-disinfected (confirmed via both the Elmore and Ottawa County 2025/2026 CCRs). The county report…
Source: webgen1files1.revize.comco.ottawa.oh.us
Water pressure
Not published. One elevated storage tower provides 200,000 gallons of holding capacity for the distribution system (confirmed verbatim via the village's own utilities page).
Source: village.elmore.oh.us
What it costs
Elmore's own water/sewer rate ordinance was not found on the village site or in its amlegal.com codified ordinances (which returned a 403 error) during this or the prior research…
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Elmore village 2025 CCR lists 'maximum level found' as 18.9 ppb but a detection range of 16.3-75.8 ppb in the same row… | 18.9 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 2.2-9.5 ppb. Elmore village CCR; by-product of chlorination. | 7.5 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha emitters Elmore village CCR; erosion of natural deposits. | 2.84 pCi/L | 15 | 2025 |
| Lead (90th pct.) Elmore CCR: 0 of 10 samples over the action level. | 0 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2025 |
| Copper (90th pct.) Elmore CCR: 0 of 10 samples over the action level. Added; not in prior draft. | 0.042 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride (at plant tap) Ottawa County Regional plant 2026 CCR (Elmore's supplier); range 0.88-1.19 ppm. Confirmed verbatim. | 1.19 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate Ottawa County Regional plant CCR; range <0.2-2.98 ppm. Confirmed verbatim. | 2.98 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Lead Ottawa County Regional plant CCR; 90th percentile value was 0. Confirmed verbatim. | 1 of 30 samples… ppb | 15 (AL) | 2025 |
| PFAS (6-chemical panel) EPA sampling of the Ottawa County Regional (Lake Erie) source found no detects. Confirmed verbatim; note this specific… | ND n/a | n/a | 2020 |
Source: webgen1files1.revize.comco.ottawa.oh.us
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.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Ottawa County Regional Water District (treats the water)
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).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Waterline connection to Ottawa County Regional Water · 2024 · completed
4.38-mile, 12-inch main extension; replaced Elmore's four local wells with purchased Lake Erie water. Substantially completed 10/21/2024. - Oxidation-ditch wastewater treatment plant · 2014 · completed
Current sewer treatment technology for the village.
Source: presspublications.com
Supply stress
Supply risk shifted in October 2024 from four local wells (which no longer met 300-foot isolation-distance requirements) to a large regional Lake Erie plant; 2025 county CCR data shows no violations and confirms microcystins are explicitly listed among substances 'NOT FOUND' in the water. Western Lake Erie's known harmful-algal-bloom…
Source: co.ottawa.oh.us
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-owned sanitary sewer treated at an oxidation-ditch plant built in 2014; no consent decree or CSO issues identified in sources reviewed.
Storm
Village issues separate storm-sewer service applications, implying a separated storm system; no specific flooding data found.
Source: village.elmore.oh.us
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
- 43416 · Elmore52% 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
Elmore Village buys its water from Ottawa County Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Elmore Village.
Photograph
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
Notable facts: village.elmore.oh.us, co.ottawa.oh.us
History: en.wikipedia.org, presspublications.com, village.elmore.oh.us
Water quality: webgen1files1.revize.com, co.ottawa.oh.us
Water pressure: village.elmore.oh.us
Capital projects: presspublications.com
Sewers: village.elmore.oh.us
Treatment: webgen1files1.revize.com, co.ottawa.oh.us
Supply stress: co.ottawa.oh.us