Water system
Paulding Village
EPA ID OH6300411 · Paulding County · 3,605 people served · owned by a local government
Paulding Village treats its own water from Paulding Reservoir, fed by Flat Rock Creek.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Paulding Reservoir, Flat Rock Creek
- Raw intakes
- Reservoir
Flat Rock Creek - Serves
- 3,605 people · Paulding County
- EPA ID
- OH6300411
Water is pumped from Flat Rock Creek to fill/resupply the ~614-million-gallon Paulding Reservoir, which is the plant's raw water source.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Paulding's drinking water begins as creek water: it is pumped from Flat Rock Creek into a 614-million-gallon man-made reservoir, and only then treated.
- A village of about 3,600 people runs two reverse-osmosis trains by Wigen Water Technologies alongside GE/Suez microfiltration - a treatment combination more typical of much larger municipal or industrial plants.
- One of the village's two water towers has stood on Grant Street since 1962, more than 60 years.
History6
- 1962Grant Street water tower (250,000 gallons) placed in service.
- 1964Paulding County Reservoir built on Flat Rock Creek, holding over 614 million gallons at depths up to 20 feet.
- 1966Original Paulding water treatment plant constructed.
- 2008Second water tower (250,000 gallons) built on Emerald Road.
- 2013New treatment plant using microfiltration and reverse osmosis brought online in June, replacing the 1966 plant.
- 2026Village began rolling out a new water meter system, posting resident instructions for the companion meter app on August 17.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The plant's raw water is Flat Rock Creek plus annual precipitation, stored in the Paulding (County) Reservoir - a surface supply the CCR says requires extensive treatment. Water passes through three trains containing 66 cartridges of GE/Suez micro filters removing particles down to 3-4 microns…
Source: villageofpaulding.comvillageofpaulding.comvillageofpaulding.com
Water pressure
Not published. The village documents two elevated storage tanks that hold distribution pressure - a 250,000-gallon tank on Grant Street (1962) and a 250,000-gallon tank on Emerald…
Source: villageofpaulding.com
What it costs
No rate schedule is published. The Water Utility General Rules and Regulations effective June 1, 2025 repeatedly reference an 'applicable rate schedule' that is not posted online…
Source: villageofpaulding.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 20.10-47.9 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation. The 2025 CCR carries the same TTHM/HAA5/chlorine figures as… | 34.65 ppb | 80 | 2024-202… |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 4.3-12.2 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation. | 8.58 ppb | 60 | 2024-202… |
| Total Chlorine Range 0.83-1.18 ppm. | 1.05 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2024-202… |
| Turbidity Highest recorded result 0.19 NTU; 100% of samples met the turbidity limit. | 0.19 NTU | Treatment… | 2025 |
| Total Organic Carbon (TOC) removal ratio Ratio of TOC removed to TOC required to be removed; a value above 1 means compliance. | 3.63 ratio | Treatment… | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.13-1.80 ppm; runoff from fertilizer use, septic leaching. | 1.80 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Atrazine Range 0.16-0.36 ppb; herbicide runoff from row crops. The 2024 report showed 0.56 ppb (range 0.16-0.56). | 0.25 ppb | 3 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Reported level found 0.80 ppm; the CCR's printed range (0.96-1.43) is inconsistent with its own level-found figure, an… | 0.80 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium Well below the 2 ppm MCL. The CCR's table heads this row 'ppb' while listing the MCL as 2, which is the ppm value. | 13.0 ppb… | 2 ppm | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero of 20 samples above the lead action level; no sample had detectable lead. | 0.0 ppm | 15 ppb (action… | 2024 |
Source: villageofpaulding.comvillageofpaulding.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2026Chlorine residual (SWTR) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
- 2025Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
- 2025Surface Water Treatment Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
- 2023Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.081 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
- 2021Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
7 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- New treatment plant (microfiltration / reverse osmosis) · 2013 · completed
Online June 2013, replacing the 1966 plant. No construction cost is published by the village; none is asserted here. - Village-wide water meter replacement with new meter-reading app · 2026 · under construction
The only public record is an August 17, 2026 village news post giving residents instructions for the new water meters/app; no completion announcement or cost…
Supply stress
Paulding depends on a single surface supply: an intake on Flat Rock Creek feeding the Paulding Reservoir. The village's own CCR states that for source water assessment purposes all surface waters in Ohio are considered susceptible to contamination, because surface waters are readily accessible and can be contaminated by chemicals and…
Sewers
Sanitary
The Village of Paulding runs its own sanitary system and publicly posts sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) discharge notices - three were posted covering late March and early April 2025. The wastewater plant's capacity, discharge point, and receiving stream are not published on the village website or in any other source located.
Storm
Not documented in any village source located.
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
- 45879 · Paulding60% 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
Paulding Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Paulding 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
Paulding Village's own pages: thedallasnewera.com, villageofpaulding.com
Notable facts: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
History: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
Water quality: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
Water pressure: villageofpaulding.com
Capital projects: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
Rates: villageofpaulding.com
Sewers: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
Treatment: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com
Supply stress: villageofpaulding.com, villageofpaulding.com