Bolivar Village

• The utility's own address is 9944 Wilkshire Boulevard NE - the water system is named for the subdivision its office and treatment plant sit in.
• TCMSD pumped just over 202 million gallons of drinking water in 2025 and puts the replacement value of its water and sewer assets at about $170 million.
• The Village of Bolivar buys its water from the Wilkshire Hills system through two master meters, so a canal town platted in 1830 drinks from two wells drilled beside a 20th-century subdivision.
• Fort Laurens, the only Revolutionary War fort built in Ohio, went up near Bolivar in 1778.
• The 2025 water quality report had to be reissued on 5/14/2026 to delete a duplicate nickel entry that had been printed twice in the Wilkshire Hills table.

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• 1778Fort Laurens, Ohio's only Revolutionary War fort, is built near the site of present-day Bolivar.
• 1830Bolivar is platted as part of the growth generated by the Ohio and Erie Canal, long before any public water system existed here.
• 1973The Tuscarawas County Metropolitan Sewer District is formed by the county commissioners; it operates water service under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6103.
• 2020Ohio EPA completes the Source Water Assessment for the Wilkshire Hills groundwater supply, rating its susceptibility to contamination as High.
• 2025TCMSD holds an unconditioned license to operate the Wilkshire Hills system and pumps just over 202 million gallons across its three water systems.
• 2026A third Wilkshire Hills groundwater well is under construction and scheduled to go into service; new water and sewer rates take effect January 1.

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How it is treated

Groundwater from two wells next to the Wilkshire Hills Water Treatment Facility, one of three treatment plants TCMSD operates. Finished water is chlorinated (2025 residual 1.09 ppm, range 0.92-1.17) and distributed over roughly 90 miles of district water main with 10 storage tanks and booster pump…

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Water pressure

Not published. TCMSD publishes no pressure zones or psi figures on tcmsd.org or in its 2025 water quality report.

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$6.35 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $49 a month for water.

TCMSD retail water rates effective January 1, 2026: $23.97 monthly base charge for a 5/8-inch residential meter plus $6.35 per 1,000 gallons; larger meters $32.54 (3/4-inch) up to…

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EPA compliance record · Bolivar Village

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 · Tcmsd-wilkshire Hills (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Recent and current work

• Lead and Copper Rule service line inventory · 2025 · completed
  Inventory maintained and viewable at the district office. Wilkshire Hills has some service lines of unknown material and fewer than 10 galvanized lines…

Source: tcmsd.org

Planned or needed

• Third Wilkshire Hills groundwater well · 2026 · under construction
  Stated in the 2025 water quality report as under construction and scheduled to go into service in 2026. No cost published.
• Water transmission line connecting Wilkshire Hills to the City of Canton · planned
  Listed in the 2025 report's capital improvement paragraph as a secondary source of water in an emergency. No cost or date published.
• Replacement of aging water lines · proposed
  The district says these are all dependent on obtaining adequate grants and loans. No cost or date published.

Source: tcmsd.org

Ohio EPA rated the Wilkshire Hills groundwater supply's susceptibility to contamination High in its 2020 Source Water Assessment - a statement about vulnerability, not current quality; the 2025 results show no MCL exceedances and an unconditioned license to operate, and EPA records show a single monitoring violation in 1995, resolved in…

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Sanitary

TCMSD's Wilkshire Hills wastewater treatment plant, rated 750,000 gallons per day, serves Bolivar, Hunters Green, the Lawrence Township Industrial Park, Wilkshire Hills and Zoar. District-wide TCMSD runs 73 miles of sewers, 24 major pump stations and about 550 septic tank systems for roughly 10,000 residents. Monthly sewer rates…

Storm

Not published. Neither TCMSD nor the county publishes storm sewer information for Bolivar or Wilkshire Hills.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.