Gnadenhutten

• Gnadenhutten (German for 'huts of grace') is described in local sources as one of Ohio's oldest continuously documented European-founded settlements, established in 1772.
• The village's two municipal wells sit inside Heck's Grove Park.
• A 1913 flood destroyed the adjacent Ohio Canal, which had operated since roughly 1830 and was never rebuilt.
• In 2003, the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the Society of Colonial Wars in Ohio, and the Ohio Historical Society erected a historical marker titled 'A Day of Shame' at the massacre site — this was a memorial marker, not…

Source: hmdb.orgen.wikipedia.org

• 1772Moravian missionaries and Lenape converts found Gnadenhutten, one of Ohio's oldest continuously documented Euro-American settlements.
• 1782Pennsylvania militia (roughly 160 men, led by David Williamson) massacre about 96 unarmed, unresisting Lenape men, women, and children in the village on March 8, during the American Revolution.
• 1825-1830The Ohio and Erie Canal is built past the village; a 1913 flood later destroys the canal, which is never rebuilt.
• 2004Ohio EPA orders the village to resolve wastewater treatment plant permit violations (repeated exceedances of ammonia, cadmium, chlorine, chromium, copper, fecal coliform, lead, mercury, nickel…
• 2024Village water treatment plant undergoes a substantial upgrade (new, more efficient pumps, updated testing/monitoring procedures) per the 2025 CCR.
• 2025A lead sample at one residence (80 Arrowhead Drive, sample LC212) tests at 43.5 ug/L on 5/29/2025, exceeding the 15 ug/L action level; Ohio EPA was notified and the resident agreed to resample.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgregionalassociations.org

How it is treated

Groundwater pumped from two wells in Heck's Grove Park, disinfected with chlorine (no filtration step described); the plant was substantially upgraded in 2024 with new, more efficient pumps and updated testing/monitoring practices, per the 2025 CCR.

Source: villageofgnadenhutten.org

Water pressure

Not published — no psi or pressure-zone information found.

Not published. No dollar rate figures were found on the village utility-billing page or elsewhere online for this small system; residents are directed to call the village office…

Source: villageofgnadenhutten.org

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.

5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 5 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Water treatment plant upgrade · 2024 · completed
  New, more efficient pumps and updated testing/monitoring practices, per the 2025 CCR; cost not published.
• Wastewater treatment plant rehabilitation (micro-biological reactor converted to extended aeration) · $2 million · completed
  Funded by USDA Rural Development ($1,521,000 loan + $250,000 grant) and a $250,000 Appalachian Regional Commission grant; replaced pretreatment components and…

Source: villageofgnadenhutten.orgbrown.senate.gov

The 2025 CCR describes the aquifer as susceptible to contamination because a permeable sandy-loam layer between the surface and the underlying sand-and-gravel aquifer offers limited natural protection; no drought or capacity issues surfaced.

Source: villageofgnadenhutten.org

Sanitary

Village operates its own sanitary sewer system and WWTP, discharging to the Tuscarawas River. Ohio EPA issued a 2004 enforcement order (with a $7,800 civil penalty) after the plant repeatedly exceeded discharge permit limits for ammonia, cadmium, chlorine, chromium, copper, fecal coliform, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, and zinc, and…

Storm

Not found in available sources — no stormwater utility, fee, or flooding history was located.

Source: regionalassociations.orgbrown.senate.gov

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