Water system
Aqua Ohio - Midvale
EPA ID OH7900612 · Tuscarawas County · 2,147 people served · owned by a local government
Aqua Ohio - Midvale treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 2,147 people · Tuscarawas County
- EPA ID
- OH7900612
About this area's water
Did you know
- Midvale's water utility changed corporate hands mid-stream in 2025: the village sold its public water system to Aqua Ohio (a subsidiary of Essential Utilities) on April 17, 2025.
- Months after the sale, Ohio EPA cited the prior owner (the village) for inaccurate 2024 water-quality reporting -- a violation notice landed on the new corporate owner's desk for numbers it didn't produce.
- Aqua's own CCR literally says it delivers Midvale's water for 'about a penny a gallon.'
- All six PFAS 'forever chemicals' now federally regulated came back non-detect in Midvale's 2025 testing, two years ahead of the EPA's 2027 compliance deadline.
Source: prod.aquawater.com
History6
- 1888Midvale was platted as a village, named for lying halfway between New Philadelphia and Uhrichsville (population 673 at the 2020 census).
- 2002Ohio EPA source water assessment found the aquifer serving Midvale's 3 wells highly susceptible to contamination, due to a permeable sandy-loam layer over the sand-and-gravel aquifer.
- 2023-2024Ohio EPA required the village to build a roughly $2.6 million manganese/iron filtration plant it could not readily fund after decades without investment in aging (~70-year-old) water lines; council…
- 2024Under the Village of Midvale's own operation, 1 of 10 lead samples hit 23 ppb and 1 of 10 copper samples hit 2.13 ppm, both over their action levels (90th-percentile values were 0 ppb lead / 1.2 ppm…
- 2025April 17: Aqua Ohio purchased the Village of Midvale's public water system for roughly $2.95 million, renaming it Aqua Ohio – Midvale.
- 2025October 30: Ohio EPA issued a Notice of Violation over incomplete/inaccurate data tables in the 2024 CCR that the village had certified before the sale; Aqua issued corrected data in its own 2025 CCR.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Supplied by three groundwater wells; water is disinfected with chlorine (0.9 ppm average, range 0.6-1.3 ppm in 2025). Aqua's CCR describes no filtration or softening step beyond disinfection. Separately, Ohio EPA had ordered the village (pre-sale) to build a roughly $2.6M plant to remove…
Source: prod.aquawater.com
Water pressure
Not published in the CCR or elsewhere found.
What it costs
No Midvale-specific tariff figure was found; Aqua's PUCO tariffs are filed system-by-system and were not locatable for this system. Aqua's own CCR markets the water as costing…
Source: prod.aquawater.com
Water quality & impurities8
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total chlorine Range 0.6-1.3 ppm; no violation. | 0.9 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Barium No violation. | 0.09 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Fluoride No violation. | 0.08 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate No violation. | 1.4 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| TTHM Range ND-5.9 ppb; no violation. | 5.9 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Lead (individual sample, 2024) 1 of 10 samples over AL under prior village ownership; 90th-percentile compliance value was 0 ppb, no formal violation. | 23 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2024 |
| Copper (individual sample, 2024) 1 of 10 samples over AL; 90th-percentile compliance value 1.2 ppm, no formal violation. | 2.13 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2024 |
| PFAS (6 regulated compounds) PFOA, PFOS, HFPO-DA, PFBS, PFHxS, PFNA all non-detect across sampling on 6/26/2025 and 12/16/2025, ahead of the 2027… | ND ppt | varies by… | 2025 |
Source: prod.aquawater.com
EPA compliance record
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 (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Village of Midvale water system acquired by Aqua Ohio · 2025 · completed
Ownership transfer April 17, 2025; system now operated as Aqua Ohio – Midvale.
Source: prod.aquawater.com
Planned or needed
- Aqua Ohio statewide infrastructure investment · $61 million · 2026 · planned
Company-wide (not Midvale-specific) planned 2026 investment across all Aqua Ohio systems; Aqua reports ~$559M invested statewide 2015-2025, per the CCR's cover…
Source: prod.aquawater.com
Supply stress
Ohio EPA's 2002 source water assessment rates the aquifer feeding Midvale's 3 wells as highly susceptible to contamination, citing a permeable sandy-loam layer and limited natural protection from the sand/gravel aquifer.
Source: prod.aquawater.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Not published; Aqua Ohio's acquisition covered only the water system. No sewer operator or treatment-plant details for this small village (population 673) were found in sources reviewed.
Storm
Not published.
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
- 44653 · Midvale91% of residents
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 44663 · New Philadelphia2% of residents
- 44621 · Dennison1% 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
Aqua Ohio - Midvale does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Aqua Ohio - Midvale.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 3 ZIP codes 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
Notable facts: prod.aquawater.com
History: prod.aquawater.com, en.wikipedia.org, news.yahoo.com
Water quality: prod.aquawater.com
Planned work: prod.aquawater.com
Capital projects: prod.aquawater.com
Rates: prod.aquawater.com
Treatment: prod.aquawater.com
Supply stress: prod.aquawater.com