Water system
Hudson City
EPA ID OH7701612 · Summit County · 8,385 people served · owned by a local government
Hudson City treats its own water from Local sand-and-gravel aquifer wells.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- local sand-and-gravel aquifer
- Active wells
- 5
- Serves
- 8,385 people · Summit County
- EPA ID
- OH7701612
About this area's water
Did you know
- Hudson's own water department serves only the central part of town -- roughly 2,300 to 3,500 accounts -- while Akron, Cleveland and Stow water serve the north, south, east and northwest edges of the city.
- Zeolite softeners treat about 80% of Hudson's water, dropping hardness from roughly 500 mg/L to about 130 mg/L; most plants do not soften at all.
- Hudson's first water and sewer system was a 1912 gift from coal millionaire James W. Ellsworth, who came home in 1907 to a town with no paved streets, no electricity and no water service and set about rebuilding it.
- A single E. coli-positive repeat sample in August 2025 was enough to put Hudson in MCL violation and force a full state-mandated Level 2 Assessment; the three follow-up samples came back clean.
- Hudson's water code charges $3.50 a month to property owners who are not connected to the system at all, so long as they sit within 600 feet of a city hydrant.
What it costs
$5.19 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $51 a month for water.
Codified Ordinance 1040.01, as amended by Ord. 22-147 (passed 12-6-22), sets a single five-year schedule for all metered customers. For 2026 a residential 5/8- or 3/4-inch account…
Source: codelibrary.amlegal.com
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- Transfer of sanitary sewer system to Summit County DOSSS · 2016 · completed
Effective January 1, 2016; the county now operates the system and does all sewer billing. - Ord. 22-147 blended five-year water rate schedule · 2022 · completed
Adopted 12-6-22; replaced separate existing/expanded service area schedules with one table for 2023-2027 (about 6% per year), then 2% annually from 2028. - E. coli Level 2 Assessment and corrective actions · 2025 · completed
Lateral and internal piping at the affected property investigated and flushed, internal system flushed, and sampling procedures retrained. All three required…
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
- 44236 · Hudson30% 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
Hudson City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Hudson City.
What the records show about Hudson City
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Hudson City as owned by a local government. It has 3,354 service connections and serves 8,385 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 330-342-1755.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Hudson City: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, and ion-exchange softening.
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 Hudson City since 2015.
EPA logs no violations of any kind for Hudson City 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 Hudson City was 2.1 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 4 ppb, in the period ending December 2020.
EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Hudson City 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 Hudson City sent EPA, 3,092 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 259 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 2,833 |
| All lines | 3,092 |
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
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 3 samples of the water entering the pipes of Hudson City in 2023 to 2024 and measured 29 PFAS. No PFAS was detected, PFOA and PFOS (federal limit 4 ng/L each) among them.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Hudson City (latest sample June 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
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 Hudson City's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 33.1 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 37.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 50.1 µg/L, from 14 samples taken from 2013 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 11.1 µg/L and the highest single sample was 12.8 µg/L, from 14 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 33.1 µg/L (2019) | 37.6 µg/L | 50.1 µg/L | 14 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 7 µg/L | 11.1 µg/L | 12.8 µg/L | 14 |
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 0.3 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2015; 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: the highest of 34 samples was 6.3 µg/L (limit 10); detections averaged 3.9; none over the limit.
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 8 | 0.3 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 34 | 6.3 µg/L | 10 µg/L | 0 |
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.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
"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 13 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 3 samples each.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 13 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
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 785 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Hudson City tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 111 did.
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 Hudson City adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Hudson City.
Measured fluoride: 1 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 1 to 1.15 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.
Lithium
Lithium was found in 2 of 2 UCMR 5 samples at Hudson City, highest 27.3 µg/L; detections averaged 22.6, last sampled in 2023.
Lithium is not regulated. EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026), samples from 2023 to 2025.
Water and sewer bills
Ohio EPA's 2023 rate survey puts the water bill at Hudson City for a household using 5,000 gallons a month at $424 a year, about $35 a month.
| Use | Water, per year | Sewer, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500 gallons a month | $294 | not on file |
| 5,000 gallons a month | $424 | not on file |
| 8,000 gallons a month | $580 | not on file |
The survey lists it as “Hudson”. These are inside-city rates and annual bills at the use shown.
Source: Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State University, May 2025).
How well the service area is mapped
The service area drawn on the map for Hudson City comes from the utility's own map.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 7,880 residents are inside the boundary, 94% of the 8,385 people Hudson City reports serving.
The resident count is an estimate from 2020 Census ZIP-code populations, not a count of customers.
Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.
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On the map
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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 OH7701612 (EPA ECHO).
Hudson City's own pages: hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us
Notable facts: hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us, codelibrary.amlegal.com
History: hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us, codelibrary.amlegal.com
Water quality: hudson.oh.us
Water pressure: hudson.oh.us, codelibrary.amlegal.com
Capital projects: hudson.oh.us, codelibrary.amlegal.com, hudson.oh.us
Rates: codelibrary.amlegal.com
Sewers: hudson.oh.us, codelibrary.amlegal.com
Treatment: hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us, hudson.oh.us
Supply stress: hudson.oh.us
