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
Hudson operates 5 of its own wells drawing from a local sand-and-gravel aquifer with a protective clay layer; no named regional aquifer (e.g. buried valley aquifer) is documented for this system.
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.
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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
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Supply stress: hudson.oh.us