Water system
Rittman City
EPA ID OH8503012 · Wayne County · 6,491 people served · owned by a local government
Rittman City treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 6,491 people · Wayne County
- EPA ID
- OH8503012
About this area's water
Did you know
- Rittman's drinking water isn't from Rittman: all three production wells and the water department itself sit west of town in Milton Township near Sterling, at 6700 Sterling Rd.
- The emergency backup well sits behind the softball fields on Industrial Street west of River Styx — Ohio EPA rates it high-susceptibility because the aquifer is shallow with only a thin clay cap, and the city didn't…
- The town is named for a railroad treasurer, not a settler or founder: after Arkona, Ellio, Milton Station and New Prospect all failed to stick, the B&O simply named its 1888 station for Frederick B. Rittman.
- The 1897 salt strike produced Wayne Salt, which became the Ohio Salt Company and then, in 1948, Morton Salt.
- The 2025 consumer confidence report spends a full paragraph correcting the 2024 one — barium, arsenic, copper's 90th percentile, a wrong year on TTHM, two wrong MCLGs, and 2021-2022 detections that had been left out of…
Source: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.comrittman.comrittman.com
History6
- 1814William Doyle and John Coleman take title to the land on July 23, 1814, becoming the first settlers; within a month eight families buy land in Wayne County and begin clearing and farming.
- 1888The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens an unnamed station here and eventually names it for its treasurer, Frederick B. Rittman — after Arkona (dropped for sounding too much like Akron), Ellio, Milton…
- 1897Salt deposits are discovered, leading to Wayne Salt, which became the Ohio Salt Company and, in 1948, Morton Salt — a long-running major employer.
- 1903E.J. Young founds the Ohio Boxboard Company to package salt and matches, becoming another significant local employer.
- 2025Ohio EPA notifies the city on June 10, 2025 of a significant deficiency — failure to perform periodic on-site investigation of commercial connections — and directs correction by January 1, 2026. The…
- 2025A routine total coliform sample taken July 10, 2025 returns positive at one address, triggering repeat sampling at that address and upstream and downstream of it. No violation resulted, and the city…
Source: rittman.comfiles-backend.assets.thrillshare.comen.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Rittman draws from three sand-and-gravel groundwater wells in a city well field west of town in Milton Township near Sterling (the water department is at 6700 Sterling Rd., Sterling), plus an emergency backup well (#5) on Industrial Street behind the softball fields west of River Styx, which was…
Source: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.comrittman.com
Water pressure
not published; no pressure or pressure-zone data appears in the CCR or anywhere on the city site.
What it costs
Not published. The city's Utilities (Water & Sewer) page gives no rate schedule, minimum charge or billing unit, and the CCR carries none; rates live in the codified ordinances on…
Source: rittman.comlibrary.municode.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 48.9-74.1; disinfection byproduct, no violation. | 61.5 ppb | 80 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Range <6.0-7.8; disinfection byproduct, no violation. | 6.9 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Chlorine Range 1.5-2.4. Disinfectant residual. | 1.9 ppm | 4.0 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.70-1.22; water additive plus natural deposits, well within the MCL. | 0.96 ppm | 4.0 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Barium Range 0.047-0.080. The 2024 CCR had misreported this as 0.045 ppm; the 2025 report corrects it. | 0.071 ppm | 2 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Arsenic Range 0-<9.6; naturally occurring. The 2024 CCR reported it as <3.0 ppb with an MCLG of 10 ppb; the 2025 report… | 1.0 ppb | 10 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Gross alpha Range <3.0-4.46; naturally occurring radioactivity. This 2022 detection was omitted from the 2024 CCR table and… | 4.46 pCi/L | 15 (MCL) | 2022 |
| Radium-228 Range 0-1.16; naturally occurring radioactivity. Also omitted from the 2024 CCR table and restored in 2025. | 1.16 pCi/L | 5 (MCL) | 2022 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Range 0-<2.0. Triannual lead testing was done in 2024; the next round is scheduled for 2027. | non-detect ppb | 15 (AL) | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Range 0.012-0.760, below the action level. The 2024 CCR had reported the 90th percentile as 0.760 ppm; the 2025 report… | 0.398 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2024 |
Source: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (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).
Projects & plans1
Planned or needed
- Backflow prevention corrective action plan · 2025-2026 · under construction
Ohio EPA identified the significant deficiency in periodic on-site investigation of commercial connections on June 10, 2025 and directed correction by January…
Supply stress
The three active sand-and-gravel wells carry a moderate susceptibility to contamination, reflecting the moderate sensitivity of the aquifer; susceptibility is judged from local geology, potential pollution sources and groundwater data. Ohio EPA rates the emergency backup well (#5) HIGH susceptibility because of significant potential…
Sewers
Sanitary
The city's utilities department handles wastewater collection and treatment alongside water, from a sewer department at 100 Morningstar Dr. The city publishes no plant description, design capacity, receiving stream, NPDES status or consent-decree information anywhere on its site, and previously reported WPCLF/OWDA-funded plant upgrades —…
Storm
not published
Source: rittman.com
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
- 44270 · Rittman72% 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
Rittman City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Rittman City.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code 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: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, rittman.com, rittman.com
History: rittman.com, files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, en.wikipedia.org
Water quality: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com
Planned work: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com
Rates: rittman.com, library.municode.com
Sewers: rittman.com
Treatment: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, rittman.com
Supply stress: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com