Water system
Mount Eaton Village
EPA ID OH8502312 · Wayne County · 425 people served · owned by a local government
Mount Eaton Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 425 people · Wayne County
- EPA ID
- OH8502312
About this area's water
Did you know
- Mount Eaton was platted in 1814, according to Wikipedia.
- The village's entire water supply comes from just two wells serving 244 connections and 425 people (per SDWIS), making it one of Ohio's smallest community water systems.
- Federal SDWIS records show a recurring non-health-based water quality report violation open intermittently since 2008, plus a resolved October 2024 lead service line inventory violation — but no documented…
History4
- 1814Village of Mount Eaton platted, per Wikipedia.
- 2000-2008Federal records show early violations for lead and copper tap testing that was missed or reported late (2000 and 2008), both resolved.
- 2008-2024EPA's record shows a recurring violation that is not health-based: an inadequate yearly water quality report (the Consumer Confidence Report). It was logged in 2008, 2020, 2022 (twice) and 2024, and again in 2025, none with a return-to-compliance date.
- 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.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Not published online. SDWIS lists the system as a groundwater community water system on two wells serving 425 people / 244 connections; we found no CCR or treatment description, and the village appears to have no functioning website.
Source: data.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published.
What it costs
No rate schedule, ordinance, or utility billing page found online for this system.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 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
13 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 4 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 8 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 health-based.
Supply stress
We found no public CCR or contaminant data. SDWIS shows a long-running, non-health-based violation for an inadequate yearly water quality report recurring roughly every one to two years since 2008 without resolution, which is a common administrative-capacity pattern for a very small (244-connection) rural groundwater system; no…
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
We found no NPDES permit or municipal wastewater plant under this name.
Storm
Not documented.
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 1 ZIP code
- 44659 · Mount Eaton100% of residents
Also present in 4 more ZIP codes
- 44624 · Paint Township and Dundee1% of residents
- 44662 · Bethlehem Township and Navarre0% of residents
- 44618 · Sugar Creek Township and Dalton0% of residents
- 44606 · East Union Township and Apple Creek0% 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
Mount Eaton 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 Mount Eaton Village.
What the records show about Mount Eaton Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Mount Eaton Village as owned by a local government. It has 244 service connections and serves 425 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 330-357-1301.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Mount Eaton Village: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, and iron and manganese removal.
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 1 health-based violation for Mount Eaton Village since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. It falls into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.
EPA logs 13 violations of any kind since 2020: 4 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 8 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 1 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 |
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 Mount Eaton 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 2.5 ppb, in the period ending December 2019.
EPA has 5 sampling periods on file for Mount Eaton Village since 2016, the first ending in 2018; 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 Mount Eaton Village sent EPA, 249 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 249 |
| All lines | 249 |
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 Mount Eaton Village (latest sample July 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 Mount Eaton Village as sampled, most recently April 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 Mount Eaton Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 0 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 0 µg/L and the highest single sample was 0 µg/L, from 8 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 6.3 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 9 µg/L and the highest single sample was 9 µg/L, from 8 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 0 µg/L (2019) | 0 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 8 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 6.3 µg/L | 9 µg/L | 9 µg/L | 8 |
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 0.29 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2014; 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 | 0.29 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: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 49 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, 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 | 3 of 3 | 49 µg/L | 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 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 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, 1 of 100 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Mount Eaton Village tested positive (1%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 28 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 Mount Eaton 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 0.02 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Mount Eaton 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 from 0.25 to 0.75 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 Mount Eaton 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.
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On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 5 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 OH8502312 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
History: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov
