Water system
Pandora Village
EPA ID OH6900912 · Putnam County · 1,204 people served · owned by a local government
Pandora Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 1,204 people · Putnam County
- EPA ID
- OH6900912
About this area's water
Did you know
- Pandora sits on Riley Creek in Putnam County.
- The village was originally called Columbia, then briefly Pendleton, before taking the name Pandora in 1883.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History3
- 1837Settlement laid out as Columbia; post office established under the name Pendleton.
- 1883Village/post office renamed from Pendleton to Pandora.
- 1892Pandora incorporated as an Ohio village.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The Village of Pandora draws its drinking water from two wells located at Village Park (per the May 2026 CCR, reporting on 2025 data). The water is chlorinated for disinfection (total chlorine residual detected at 2.03 ppm). No treatment-plant capacity, well pumping rate, or daily usage figures…
Source: irp.cdn-website.com
Water pressure
Not published — no psi figure found in the CCR or any other located source.
Source: irp.cdn-website.com
What it costs
No published water rate schedule was found. The village's Water & Sewer, Ordinances, and homepage pages (villageofpandora.com) list no rate ordinance or fee schedule online; the…
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride Erosion of natural deposits; discharge from fertilizer. | 0.14 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits. | 0.0381 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 0-14.0 ppb; disinfection by-product. | 13.05 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 16.5-59.9 ppb; disinfection by-product. | 47.80 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Total Chlorine residual Range 1.09-2.59 ppm. | 2.03 ppm | MRDL 4 | 2025 |
| Chloroform (unregulated) Range 5.0-20.1 ppb; disinfection by-product, monitored but not regulated. | 9.51 ppb | N/A (no MCL —… | 2025 |
| Bromoform (unregulated) Range 0.9-2.8 ppb; disinfection by-product. | 1.68 ppb | N/A | 2025 |
| Bromodichloromethane (unregulated) Range 5.0-21.2 ppb; disinfection by-product. | 9.58 ppb | N/A | 2025 |
| Dibromochloromethane (unregulated) Range 4.8-15.8 ppb; disinfection by-product. | 8.17 ppb | N/A | 2025 |
Source: irp.cdn-website.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (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).
Supply stress
The May 2026 CCR (2025 data) states the aquifer supplying Pandora has 'moderate susceptibility to contamination,' due to moderate aquifer sensitivity and the existence of potential contaminant sources within the protection zone. This corrects the researcher's prior 'not documented' framing.
Source: irp.cdn-website.com
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
- 45877 · Pandora53% 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
Pandora 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 Pandora 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: en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: irp.cdn-website.com
Water pressure: irp.cdn-website.com
Rates: villageofpandora.com, villageofpandora.com
Treatment: irp.cdn-website.com
Supply stress: irp.cdn-website.com