Water system

Tuscarawas Village

EPA ID OH7901512 · Tuscarawas County · 1,056 people served · owned by a local government

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater

Tuscarawas Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

The system's record

Groundwater wells (2 wells)
Groundwater
Wells: EPA lists 2 active wells. ODNR well logs locate 1 public-supply well inside Tuscarawas Village's wellhead protection zone, 135 ft deep, in shale. Zoom in to see them as dots.
Well 1Well 2
Active wells
2
Serves
1,056 people · Tuscarawas County
EPA ID
OH7901512

About this area's water

Did you know
  • The village sits along the Tuscarawas River, from which it takes its name (derived from the Tuscarora people).
  • Population has been essentially flat to slightly declining over the past decade (1,056 in 2010 to 1,035 in 2020).
  • The system's EPA-listed point of contact is an Ohio Rural Water Association representative (email domain ohioruralwater.org) rather than direct village staff, suggesting the village relies on outside technical…

Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov

History2
  • 1756Site founded/settled by Tamaqua (King Beaver); originally called Trenton.
  • 1828U.S. post office established under the name Tuscarawas.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Treatment & pressure

How it is treated

Village treats its own groundwater. Per EPA SDWIS facility records, the system draws from two active wells (Well 0001, Well 0002), both listed as 'primary' source, which feed an active village-owned treatment plant and a storage tank ('NEW STORAGE TANK') before distribution. No CCR or engineering…

Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov

Water pressure

Not published.

What it costs

We found no published rate schedule, ordinance, or CCR. The village does not appear to maintain a public website; its EPA-listed water system contact is an Ohio Rural…

Water quality & impurities

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: 3 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 2 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).

Supply stress

Small groundwater system (2 wells) serving just over 1,000 residents; population has been essentially flat to slightly declining over the past decade (1,056 in 2010 to 1,035 in 2020, per U.S. Census).

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Sewers

Storm

Not published/found.

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

Also present in 2 more ZIP codes

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

Tuscarawas Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.

1 system on record buys water from Tuscarawas Village: Tcmsd-wainwright.

What the records show about Tuscarawas Village

Who runs it

EPA's record describes Tuscarawas Village as owned by a local government. It has 412 service connections and serves 1,056 people.

EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.

EPA's record says it has substantially implemented source water protection under Ohio's program, dating the program from 2023. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 740-922-4189.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.

How the water is treated

EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Tuscarawas Village: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, 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 Tuscarawas Village since 2015.

EPA logs 5 violations of any kind since 2020: 3 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 2 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 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Tuscarawas 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 156 ppb, in the period ending June 2023.

EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Tuscarawas Village since 2016, the first ending in 2018; 1 of the 9 periods went above 15 ppb, and 1 above 10 ppb.

Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Tuscarawas Village sent EPA, 503 lines are counted.

Service lines in the inventory
MaterialLines
Lead0
Galvanized, needing replacement1
Unknown material46
Not lead456
All lines503

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

Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Tuscarawas Village (latest sample August 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.

Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Tuscarawas Village as sampled, most recently August 2026.

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 Tuscarawas Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 2.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 8.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 13 µg/L, from 14 samples taken from 2013 to 2019.

For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 0 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 12 µg/L, from 14 samples.

Disinfection byproducts in the distribution system
ByproductLimitLatest yearly averageWorst yearly averageHighest sampleSamples
TTHM80 µg/L2.7 µg/L (2019)8.7 µg/L13 µg/L14
HAA560 µg/L0 µg/L6 µg/L12 µg/L14

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

Nitrate: the highest of 9 samples was 1.94 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2012; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 0.38 mg/L. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.

Arsenic: the highest of 37 samples was 6 µg/L (limit 10); detections averaged 3.7; none over the limit.

Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity in finished water, 2012 to 2019
ContaminantSamplesHighest resultLimitSamples over limit
Nitrate (as nitrogen)91.94 mg/L10 mg/L0
Arsenic376 µg/L10 µg/L0

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.

Solvents and fuels

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.

Solvents and fuels in finished water, 2012 to 2019
CompoundLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
Benzene5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Carbon tetrachloride5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
1,2-dichloroethane5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Trichloroethylene (TCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
Vinyl chloride2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

"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.

Farm chemicals and metals

EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 1 of 3 samples, highest 61 µg/L (limit 2,000); selenium in 1 of 3 samples, highest 2 µg/L (limit 50). Not detected: atrazine in 3 samples, alachlor in 4 samples, chromium in 3 samples, cadmium in 3 samples, mercury in 3 samples, thallium in 3 samples.

Herbicides and metals in finished water, 2012 to 2019
SubstanceKindLimitSamplesDetected inHighest resultSamples over limit
AtrazineFarm chemical3 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
AlachlorFarm chemical2 µg/L40 of 4not detected0
ChromiumMetal100 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
CadmiumMetal5 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
BariumMetal2,000 µg/L31 of 361 µg/L0
MercuryMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0
SeleniumMetal50 µg/L31 of 32 µg/L0
ThalliumMetal2 µg/L30 of 3not detected0

Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water.

Bacteria in the pipes

From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 180 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Tuscarawas Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 24 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 Tuscarawas Village has fluoride from natural sources, but at a level below what is recommended for preventing tooth decay, and does not adjust it. The level it reports is 0.2 mg/L.

EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Tuscarawas Village.

Measured fluoride: none was detected in 3 samples at the plant's entry points 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.

How well the service area is mapped

EPA estimated the service area of Tuscarawas Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.

Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.

Photograph

Post office in Tuscarawas, Ohio
Post office in Tuscarawas, OhioPhoto: Roseohioresident · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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

EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH7901512 (EPA ECHO).

Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov

History: en.wikipedia.org

Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov

Supply stress: en.wikipedia.org

Quick answers

Where does Tuscarawas Village get its water?

Tuscarawas Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).

How many people does Tuscarawas Village serve?

Tuscarawas Village serves about 1,056 people, and is the main water system for 1 ZIP code.

Who owns Tuscarawas Village?

Tuscarawas Village is owned by a local government.

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