Water system
Plymouth Village
EPA ID OH7004003 · Richland County · 1,874 people served · owned by a local government
Plymouth Village buys its water from Willard City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- West Branch Huron River, Willard City Upground Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- Reservoir
W Branch Huron River - Serves
- 7,099 people · Huron County
- EPA ID
- OH3901511
Willard pumps raw water from the West Branch Huron River into a 215-acre, 2.3-billion-gallon upground reservoir before treatment; it also sells water to Northern Ohio Rural Water and the Village of Plymouth.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Plymouth village straddles the Richland/Huron county line so directly that police jurisdiction is split between the two counties' sheriff's departments (confirmed via Wikipedia).
- The village operates no water treatment plant of its own; it is entirely a wholesale customer of the City of Willard, whose plant draws from a 215-acre, 2.3-billion-gallon upground reservoir on the West Branch Huron…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgwillardohio.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Plymouth Village buys 100% of its finished drinking water wholesale from the City of Willard and treats none of its own. Willard's plant is a Class III surface-water facility (design capacity 3.2 MGD, currently treating roughly 1.3 MGD average) drawing raw water from the West Branch Huron River…
Source: willardohio.gov
Water pressure
not published
What it costs
No public water-rate schedule was found for Plymouth Village. The village utility office (48 W. Broadway St., 419-687-4331) lists a $100 water-service deposit for new accounts but…
Source: plymouthoh.org
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (tap sample, individual results) EPA SDWIS lead-sample records for OH7004003; one sample among six detected 0.0098 mg/L, others non-detect. | 0 to 0.0098 mg/L | 0.015 (action… | unspecif… |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
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).
EPA compliance record · Willard City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
Plymouth has no independent water source and depends entirely on Willard's West Branch Huron River reservoir and treatment plant as its sole wholesale supplier, so any Willard supply, drought, or treatment disruption directly affects Plymouth. EPA SDWIS also lists several open Rule 420 (reporting/monitoring, code 72) violations dating to…
Source: willardohio.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Village lists a $100 sewer-service deposit and operates a Utility Department, but no wastewater-treatment-plant name, capacity, or receiving stream was confirmed from a source read.
Storm
Not confirmed from a source read in this pass.
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
- 44865 · Plymouth53% 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
Plymouth Village buys its water from Willard City.
No other system is on record buying water from Plymouth 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, willardohio.gov
Water quality: data.epa.gov
Rates: plymouthoh.org
Treatment: willardohio.gov
Supply stress: willardohio.gov, data.epa.gov