New Lexington

• New Lexington drinks from two small reservoirs it owns outright — the New Lexington Reservoir and Rush Creek Reservoir Site 1B — rather than a river, a lake or a well field.
• Founder James Comly laid out 64 lots in 1817 and sold them for $25 to $50 each; forty years later the village beat Somerset and Rehoboth in a bitter fight for the county seat.
• The village will credit your sewer bill $25 to $125 for filling a swimming pool — as long as you call the water office before you turn the hose on.
• Water and sewer rates here rise 3% automatically every year, an escalator written into the ordinance and running since June 1, 2010.
• The 2025 drinking water report lists a TTHM annual average of 99.8 ppb next to an 80 ppb federal limit, and still prints 'NO' in the violation column.

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• 1817New Lexington established by James Comly, who laid out 64 lots and sold them for $25 to $50 apiece.
• 1857New Lexington won the Perry County seat after a bitter contest with Somerset and Rehoboth.
• 2021Ordinance 21-12, passed October 4, 2021, set the current published water and sewer rate schedule, keeping the automatic 3% annual increase that has applied every year since June 1, 2010.
• 2023-2024Seven consecutive quarters of Total Organic Carbon treatment-technique violations, Q2 2023 through Q4 2024. The village's public notice of January 30, 2025 cites Ohio Administrative Code 3745-81-77…
• 2024Two TTHM maximum contaminant level violations. A notice distributed August 30, 2024 covered a four-quarter average of 0.087 mg/L; a second, distributed December 2, 2024 for the fourth quarter…
• 2026Mid-August flooding across Perry, Muskingum and Morgan counties. Heavy rainfall stirred sediment inside the water system, prompting a boil advisory that was upgraded to a full boil alert on about…

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How it is treated

The village treats its own surface water at the New Lexington Water Treatment Plant, drawing from the New Lexington Reservoir and Rush Creek Reservoir Site 1B — both are in use and, in the village's words, require extensive treatment. The 2025 report publishes no description of the treatment train…

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Water pressure

Not published. No psi figures or pressure-zone information appear in the drinking water reports, the water department page or the rate ordinances.

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$7.65 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $43 a month for water.

From Ordinance 21-12, passed October 4, 2021 — the most recent rate schedule the village publishes. Water base rate $20.11 per month for the first 1,000 gallons, then $7.65 per…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Chlorite · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
• 2024Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.089 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2023Chlorite · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 9 includes 6 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

14 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 5 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• GAC filter repair · 2024 · completed
  The granular activated carbon filter was repaired November 20, 2024 and returned to service November 21, 2024, after the fourth-quarter TTHM MCL violation.
• Treatment adjustments for Total Organic Carbon removal · 2025 · completed
  The village told customers in its January 30, 2025 notice that it was making adjustments to the treatment process to increase TOC removal. Ohio EPA recorded a…

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Planned or needed

• Post-flood water system recovery and assessment · 2026 · needed
  After the August 2026 flooding and the sediment-driven boil alert, resilience work at the reservoirs and plant is implied but no capital plan, cost or schedule…

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High for a system this size. New Lexington depends entirely on two small surface reservoirs it owns, and its own source assessment lists what sits in the protection area: runoff from truck storage, auto repair and salvage yards, agricultural runoff, oil and gas wells, abandoned mines, and stream crossings where a vehicle accident can…

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Sanitary

The village runs and bills its own sanitary sewer system alongside water; Ordinance 21-12 sets sewer at $34.67 per month for the first 1,000 gallons and $7.03 per 1,000 thereafter, with 55% added outside the corporation limits, and Ordinances 18-10 and 23-11 govern summer pool-fill sewer credits of $25 to $125. Water charges are a lien…

Storm

Nothing published. No stormwater utility, fee or drainage program appears on the village site. The only relevant public record is the August 2026 regional flooding, which brought Ohio National Guard and ODOT debris removal crews to Perry, Muskingum and Morgan…

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