Water system

Eldorado, Village Of

EPA ID OH6800512 · Preble County · 539 people served · owned by a local government

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater

Eldorado, Village Of treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

The system's record

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater
Wells: EPA lists 2 active wells.
Well 1Well 2
Active wells
2
Serves
539 people · Preble County
EPA ID
OH6800512

About this area's water

Did you know
  • Eldorado is one of Ohio's smallest incorporated villages, covering just 0.23 square miles.
  • The village's population density (about 2,000 people per square mile) is high for a rural Preble County community because the built area is so compact.
  • Eldorado is served by the Preble County District Library and the National Trail Local School District.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

History2
  • before 1880Village of Eldorado already settled; the 1880 census recorded 337 residents.
  • 1990Population peaked at 549 residents (up from 509 in 1980) before declining to 543 in 2000, 509 in 2010, and 458 in 2020.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Treatment & pressure

How it is treated

EPA's federal SDWIS database lists Eldorado's treatment processes as slat-tray aeration, rapid sand filtration, a reaction step, and post-hypochlorination, consistent with an iron/manganese removal plant ahead of chlorine disinfection.

Source: data.epa.gov

Water pressure

Not published.

What it costs

We found no published rate schedule for the village water utility.

Water quality & impurities

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

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

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

Eldorado, Village Of does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.

No other system is on record buying water from Eldorado, Village Of.

What the records show about Eldorado, Village Of

Who runs it

EPA's record describes Eldorado, Village Of as owned by a local government. It has 260 service connections and serves 539 people.

EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.

EPA's record says it has substantially implemented source water protection under Ohio's program, dating the program from 2025. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 937-273-5695.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.

How the water is treated

EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Eldorado, Village Of: aeration, chlorine disinfection, and sand or media filtration.

The list is what each system registered with EPA for treatment plants EPA still shows as active, and it can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).

Violations

EPA's record shows no health-based violations for Eldorado, Village Of since 2015.

EPA logs no violations of any kind for Eldorado, Village Of since 2020.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) violation records: health-based violations with compliance periods beginning in 2015 or later, all violations from 2020 or later (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).

Lead and copper at the tap

In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Eldorado, Village Of was 2 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.

The highest result on file is 5.8 ppb, in the period ending December 2022.

EPA has 7 sampling periods on file for Eldorado, Village Of since 2016, the first ending in 2017; no period was above 10 ppb.

Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Eldorado, Village Of sent EPA, 256 lines are counted.

Service lines in the inventory
MaterialLines
Lead0
Galvanized, needing replacement0
Unknown material0
Not lead256
All lines256

Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder. The 90th-percentile result is the level nine in ten of the sampled homes were at or below. Lead comes mostly from service lines and house plumbing, not the source water, so a low result for the system does not clear an old house.

EPA's dashboard status for this inventory: reported all required service line types.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) lead and copper 90th-percentile results (EPA Envirofacts), sampling periods ending 2016 or later; EPA's service line inventory dashboard, Ohio's 2026 Q2 submission.

PFAS

Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Eldorado, Village Of (latest sample September 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.

Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Eldorado, Village Of as sampled, most recently May 2026.

PFAS are the 'forever chemicals' from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026); Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling, 2019 to 2021, and its sampling status map.

Disinfection byproducts

Chlorine that disinfects water also reacts with organic matter to form byproducts. Two groups have federal limits: total trihalomethanes (TTHM, 80 µg/L) and five haloacetic acids (HAA5, 60 µg/L), judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site.

For TTHM, the average of Eldorado, Village Of's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 24.6 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 41.2 µg/L and the highest single sample was 58 µg/L, from 14 samples taken from 2013 to 2019.

For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 8.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 14.9 µg/L and the highest single sample was 21.1 µg/L, from 14 samples.

Disinfection byproducts in the distribution system
ByproductLimitLatest yearly averageWorst yearly averageHighest sampleSamples
TTHM80 µg/L24.6 µg/L (2019)41.2 µg/L58 µg/L14
HAA560 µg/L8.7 µg/L14.9 µg/L21.1 µg/L14

A yearly average of 0 means nothing was detected in that year's samples. EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system samples (non-detects counted as zero).

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity

Nitrate: the highest of 8 samples was 0.65 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2018; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.

Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity in finished water, 2012 to 2019
ContaminantSamplesHighest resultLimitSamples over limit
Nitrate (as nitrogen)80.65 mg/L10 mg/L0
Arsenic3not detected10 µg/L0

Measured in finished water: at the plant's entry points and in the distribution system; raw well and intake samples are left out. Non-detects count as zero.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Solvents and fuels

EPA's file holds results for all six solvent and fuel compounds it checked. Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and vinyl chloride were not detected in 3 samples each.

Solvents and fuels in finished water, 2012 to 2019
CompoundLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
Benzene5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Carbon tetrachloride5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
1,2-dichloroethane5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Trichloroethylene (TCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Vinyl chloride2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

"Not detected" means the lab's result was below what its method can measure, not that the compound is absent. Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Farm chemicals and metals

EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 88.6 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 2 samples, alachlor in 2 samples, chromium in 3 samples, cadmium in 3 samples, mercury in 3 samples, selenium in 3 samples, thallium in 3 samples.

Herbicides and metals in finished water, 2012 to 2019
SubstanceKindLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
AtrazineFarm chemical3 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
AlachlorFarm chemical2 µg/L20 of 2not detected0
ChromiumMetal100 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
CadmiumMetal5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
BariumMetal2,000 µg/L33 of 388.6 µg/L0
MercuryMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
SeleniumMetal50 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
ThalliumMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Bacteria in the pipes

From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 98 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Eldorado, Village Of tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 5 samples tested for it.

A positive coliform test is a warning sign, not a violation by itself. E. coli is a sign that human or animal waste may have reached the water. Coliform counts are routine samples only; E. coli counts include repeat samples.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system presence/absence tests for total coliform and E. coli.

Fluoride

The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says Eldorado, Village Of has fluoride from natural sources at a level higher than what is needed to prevent tooth decay. The level it reports is 1.44 mg/L.

EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Eldorado, Village Of.

Measured fluoride: 1.3 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (above the target); samples ran from 1.22 to 1.3 mg/L across 3 samples in 2012 to 2019.

The recommended level for preventing tooth decay is 0.7 mg/L; the federal limit is 4 mg/L. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched September 2026); EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, entry-point fluoride samples.

How well the service area is mapped

EPA estimated the service area of Eldorado, Village Of with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.

Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.

Photograph

Buildings at Main and Mill Streets (State Route 726) in Eldorado, Ohio
Buildings at Main and Mill Streets (State Route 726) in Eldorado, OhioPhoto: Nyttend · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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

EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH6800512 (EPA ECHO).

Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org

History: en.wikipedia.org

Treatment: data.epa.gov

Quick answers

Where does Eldorado, Village Of get its water?

Eldorado, Village Of treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

How many people does Eldorado, Village Of serve?

Eldorado, Village Of serves about 539 people, and is the main water system for 1 ZIP code.

Who owns Eldorado, Village Of?

Eldorado, Village Of is owned by a local government.

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