Water system
Willshire Village
EPA ID OH8100911 · Van Wert County · 405 people served · owned by a local government
Willshire Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 405 people · Van Wert County
- EPA ID
- OH8100911
About this area's water
Did you know
- Willshire's post office has operated continuously since 1822, per Wikipedia and the village's own site, which also credits founder Captain James Riley.
- Federal SDWIS records 45 total drinking-water violation entries for this system since 1994 — nearly all resolved monitoring/reporting items — for a village water system of just 200 connections; two unrelated…
- A July 2026 village public notice shows Willshire actively enforcing sewer-lateral smoke-test repairs and pursuing delinquent water/sewer bills, evidence the village runs a combined, currently-active water and sewer…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.govwillshireohio.wordpress.com
History5
- 1822Willshire post office established / village founded by Captain James Riley, per both Wikipedia and the village's own site (willshireohio.wordpress.com) — one of the older platted communities in Van…
- 1994-2024Federal SDWIS records 45 total violation entries for this system since 1994, the large majority non-health-based monitoring/reporting items, all but two marked resolved.
- 2020EPA recorded a Ground Water Rule violation: the system did not fix a deficiency the state had found. EPA marks it resolved.
- 2024EPA logged two violations on October 17, 2024, the day after lead service line inventories were due: one for the inventory itself, which EPA counts as health-based though it is a records requirement and not a lead test result, and one for reporting on it. EPA marks both resolved, not open.
- 2025-2026Two separate violations that are not health-based opened and remain open in EPA's record: one from November 2025 for not giving the public a required notice of an earlier violation, and one from January 2026 for an inadequate yearly water quality report.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgwillshireohio.wordpress.comdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Not documented online; SDWIS lists the system as a groundwater community water system drawing from two wells, serving 405 people on 200 connections. No CCR, treatment plant description, or plant details were found on any public site, including the village's own WordPress site.
Source: data.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published.
What it costs
We found no dollar rate schedule. A July 2026 public notice on the village's own site (willshireohio.wordpress.com) says Willshire bills combined water and sewer service and…
Source: willshireohio.wordpress.com
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 8.4 ppb in 2025 (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
- 2020Ground Water Rule · did not fix a deficiency the state found · returned to compliance
22 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 13 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 7 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 2 health-based.
Supply stress
No CCR or specific contaminant data is publicly available for Willshire's wells. SDWIS shows two currently open, non-health-based violations: a required public notice not given (opened November 2025) and an inadequate yearly water quality report (January 2026). Neither concerns a contaminant level. The village sits in intensively farmed northwest Ohio near the…
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
A July 2026 public notice on the village's own site says Willshire operates an active sanitary sewer system billed jointly with water: properties that failed sewer smoke tests were required to complete repairs by September 9, 2026, or have the village complete them and…
Storm
Not documented.
Source: willshireohio.wordpress.com
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources. Little is published about this system, so details are thin.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 2 ZIP codes
- 45899 · Wren53% of residents
- 45898 · Willshire Township and Willshire36% 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
Willshire Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Willshire Village.
What the records show about Willshire Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Willshire Village as owned by a local government. It has 200 service connections and serves 405 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 2025. Its office telephone on EPA's record is 419-495-2704.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Willshire Village: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, and ion-exchange softening.
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 counts 2 health-based violations for Willshire Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. They fall into 2 separate problems (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists them all.
EPA logs 22 violations of any kind since 2020: 13 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 7 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 2 health-based.
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lead and Copper Rule Revisions | lead service line inventory missing or incomplete (a records requirement, not a lead test result) | not on file | not on file | returned to compliance |
| 2020 | Ground Water Rule | did not fix a deficiency the state found | not on file | not on file | returned to compliance |
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 Willshire Village was 8.4 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 11 sampling periods on file for Willshire Village since 2016, the first ending in 2016; 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 Willshire Village sent EPA, 200 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 1 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 192 |
| Not lead | 7 |
| All lines | 200 |
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 Willshire Village (latest sample October 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 Willshire Village as sampled, most recently May 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 Willshire Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 23.9 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 25 µg/L and the highest single sample was 30.7 µg/L, from 9 samples taken from 2014 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 2.4 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 5.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 11.2 µg/L, from 10 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 23.9 µg/L (2019) | 25 µg/L | 30.7 µg/L | 9 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 2.4 µg/L | 5.6 µg/L | 11.2 µg/L | 10 |
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 8 samples was 0.15 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2017; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate 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) | 8 | 0.15 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | not detected | 10 µg/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.
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.
| 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.
Farm chemicals and metals
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: thallium in 1 of 3 samples, highest 0.81 µg/L (limit 2). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, barium, mercury, and selenium, 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 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 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 | 1 of 3 | 0.81 µg/L | 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.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 88 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Willshire Village tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 11 did. E. coli was never found in the 11 samples tested for it.
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 Willshire Village has fluoride from natural sources at a level higher than what is needed to prevent tooth decay. The level it reports is 1.65 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Willshire Village.
Measured fluoride: every sample at the plant's entry points in 2019 was below the 0.2 mg/L reporting limit; detected samples in earlier years ran at 1.17 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.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Willshire 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
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 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 OH8100911 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov, willshireohio.wordpress.com
History: en.wikipedia.org, willshireohio.wordpress.com, data.epa.gov
Rates: willshireohio.wordpress.com
Sewers: willshireohio.wordpress.com
Treatment: data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov
