Water system
Silver Lake Village
EPA ID OH7704303 · Summit County · 2,519 people served · owned by a local government
Silver Lake Village buys its water from Cuyahoga Falls City.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Cuyahoga River buried valley sand and gravel aquifer
- Active wells
- 15
- Serves
- 51,114 people · Summit County
- EPA ID
- OH7701012
About this area's water Cuyahoga Falls City
Did you know
- Cuyahoga Falls drinks entirely from 18 wells at Water Works Park, but the Cuyahoga River still feeds the supply indirectly, recharging the aquifer through man-made channels and lagoons.
- The plant softens only about two-thirds of its water, then blends the softened and unsoftened streams back together to land at a target hardness of 100 to 130 ppm.
- Water Works Park's stone shelter and bridges were built around 1934 by crews working under FDR's Works Progress Administration.
- A single 2024 tap sample came back at 465 ppb of lead, over 30 times the action level - but the resample was under 5 ppb, pointing at that home's plumbing rather than the city's water.
History5
- 1934Water Works Park, its shelter and its bridges were built by crews under FDR's Works Progress Administration, on the site of the city's well field.
- 1959Flooding inundated Water Works Park and the well field in January 1959; the park and wells flooded again in April 1978.
- 2022An Ohio EPA sanitary survey found reporting violations and significant deficiencies, including severe deterioration of the plant's softener building pipe gallery.
- 2023Two water main breaks on Akron Peninsula Road near Bath Road triggered an October 8 boil advisory on Akron-supplied lines serving outlying Cuyahoga Falls and Boston Township addresses.
- 2024One of 30 lead compliance samples returned 465 ppb, far over the 15 ppb action level; the resample came back under 5 ppb and the 90th percentile stayed at 0.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from 18 wells at Water Works Park enters iron-removal filters where chlorine strips iron and manganese; about two-thirds is then softened by ion exchange, blended back with the rest to 100-130 ppm hardness, and dosed with chlorine, fluoride, caustic soda and orthophosphate.
Water pressure
not published; no average or pressure-zone psi figures appear in the city's water reports.
What it costs
The city does not post its per-unit water rate schedule online; rates are set by Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Code 923.01.
Water quality & impurities6
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Running average under the MCL, but individual samples ranged 36.4-103 ppb, topping 80 at least once. | 61.78 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Lead (single high sample) 1 of 30 samples over the AL; resample under 5 ppb. 90th percentile reported as 0, so no AL exceedance. | 465 ppb | 15 (action… | 2024 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Comfortably under the MCL. Range 18.5-33.7 ppb; no violation. | 22.97 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 30 samples above the copper action level. | 0.44 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2024 |
| Fluoride Added for tooth decay protection. Range 0.80-1.06 ppm. | 0.92 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Residual disinfectant. Range 1.00-1.35 ppm; no violation. | 1.27 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
EPA compliance record · Silver Lake Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020: 1 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
EPA compliance record · Cuyahoga Falls City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule Revisions · lead service line inventory missing or incomplete (a records requirement, not a lead test result) · returned to compliance
6 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 2 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- Iron filter media replacement · 2023 · under construction
Ordered after Ohio EPA found no replacement schedule and organic growth on several iron filters; phased replacement began in 2023.
Planned or needed
- Water treatment plant softener building and pipe gallery replacement · 2026 · planned
Ohio EPA cited significant deterioration; design plans were due by end of 2025 with construction to begin in 2026. - Removal of the State Road Water Tank supplemental chlorine booster station · 2026 · planned
The booster station was found inoperable during the 2022 sanitary survey; the city plans to remove it.
Supply stress
A buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer recharged by the Cuyahoga River through man-made channels and lagoons. Ohio EPA rates it highly susceptible: water sits 4-32 feet down with no low-permeability protective layer. The plant produces close to 6 MGD; aging plant structures, not supply, are the pressure.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
No ZIP code has Silver Lake Village on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 44224 · Stow6% 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
Silver Lake Village buys its water from Cuyahoga Falls City.
No other system is on record buying water from Silver Lake Village.
What the records show about Silver Lake Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Silver Lake Village as owned by a local government. It has 1,086 service connections and serves 2,519 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
Its office telephone on EPA's record is 330-923-5233.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
Silver Lake Village buys water that Cuyahoga Falls City treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Cuyahoga Falls City: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, ion-exchange softening, 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 Silver Lake Village since 2015.
EPA logs 1 violation of any kind since 2020: 1 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
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 2023, the 90th-percentile lead result at Silver Lake Village was 0 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027. A result of 0 means at least nine in ten of the homes sampled had no lead detected.
The highest result on file is 1.1 ppb, in the period ending December 2020.
EPA has 3 sampling periods on file for Silver Lake Village 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 Silver Lake Village sent EPA, 1,089 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 60 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 3 |
| Unknown material | 174 |
| Not lead | 852 |
| All lines | 1,089 |
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
The water Silver Lake Village buys is treated by Cuyahoga Falls City, so the results below are Cuyahoga Falls City's.
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 4 samples of the water entering the pipes of Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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 Silver Lake Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 39.3 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 64.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 72 µg/L, from 16 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 15.2 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 29.5 µg/L and the highest single sample was 29.7 µg/L, from 16 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 39.3 µg/L (2019) | 64.7 µg/L | 72 µg/L | 16 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 15.2 µg/L | 29.5 µg/L | 29.7 µg/L | 16 |
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
The water Silver Lake Village buys is treated by Cuyahoga Falls City, so the results below are Cuyahoga Falls City's.
Nitrate was not detected in 9 samples through 2019 (limit 10 mg/L as nitrogen; above 10 is unsafe for infants).
Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 9 | not detected | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
| Combined radium | 1 | not detected | 5 pCi/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 of Cuyahoga Falls City.
Solvents and fuels
The water Silver Lake Village buys is treated by Cuyahoga Falls City, so the results below are Cuyahoga Falls City's.
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 of Cuyahoga Falls City.
Farm chemicals and metals
The water Silver Lake Village buys is treated by Cuyahoga Falls City, so the results below are Cuyahoga Falls City's.
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 2 of 3 samples, highest 62.1 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 | 2 of 3 | 62.1 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 of Cuyahoga Falls City.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 372 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Silver Lake Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 44 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 Silver Lake Village buys its water from Cuyahoga Falls City, a system that adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Cuyahoga Falls City, which treats the water Silver Lake Village buys.
Measured fluoride: 0.58 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Cuyahoga Falls City, which supplies Silver Lake Village, in 2019 (below the 0.7 mg/L target); samples ran from 0.5 to 0.8 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 1 of 2 UCMR 5 samples at Cuyahoga Falls City, which supplies Silver Lake Village, highest 10.4 µg/L, 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 Silver Lake Village for a household using 5,000 gallons a month at $531 a year, about $44 a month.
The sewer bill in the same survey is $954 a year at 5,000 gallons a month.
| Use | Water, per year | Sewer, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500 gallons a month | $355 | $705 |
| 5,000 gallons a month | $531 | $954 |
| 8,000 gallons a month | $741 | $1,253 |
The survey lists it as “Silver Lake”. 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
EPA estimated the service area of Silver Lake Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 2,214 residents are inside the boundary, 88% of the 2,519 people Silver Lake Village 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.
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 OH7704303 (EPA ECHO).
