Water system
Marblehead Village
EPA ID OH6202411 · Ottawa County · 865 people served · owned by a local government
Marblehead 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 Ottawa County Regional Water District
What it costs
$4.99 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $24 a month for water.
Retail schedule effective January 2023. A standard residential 5/8-inch to 3/4-inch meter carries a $24.00 monthly minimum that includes the first 4,500 gallons; because typical…
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record · Marblehead Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2023Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 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 & plans3
Recent and current work
- Ottawa County Regional Water Treatment Plant construction · $23 million · 1999 · completed
Original 6 MGD plant. Approximately $23 million in total construction cost, funded through special assessments, state and federal grants and various… - 3 MGD plant expansion to 9 MGD · $3.7 million · 2002 · completed
Triggered after the system exceeded peak design capacity on a single hot summer day. - Lead service line inventory · 2024 · completed
The county reports its distribution system has no lead, no galvanized-requiring-replacement and no lead-status-unknown service lines, determined from…
Sewers
Sanitary
The same county department runs the sanitary side. It operates two wastewater treatment facilities - Danbury Township at 3.8 million gallons per day and Portage/Catawba Island at 1.34 MGD - along with roughly 167 miles of sanitary sewer, 83 pump stations and over 1,000 grinder pump stations. The department employs 39 full-time staff…
Storm
Not published. No county storm sewer system, stormwater utility or stormwater fee was found for the water district's service area in the sources reviewed.
Source: co.ottawa.oh.usco.ottawa.oh.us
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43440 · Danbury Township and Lakeside Marblehead29% 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
Marblehead Village buys its water from Ottawa County Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Marblehead Village.
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