Water system
Edgerton Village
EPA ID OH8600312 · Williams County · 1,881 people served · owned by a local government
Edgerton Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 1,881 people · Williams County
- EPA ID
- OH8600312
About this area's water
Did you know
- Edgerton was surveyed in 1854 at the spot where the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad crossed the St. Joseph River, and named for railroad figure Alfred P. Edgerton.
- The village's water treatment plant dates to 1966, and as of a 2022 engineering review most of its major components -- ion exchange units, valves, pumps -- were still the 1966 originals.
Source: edgerton-ohio.govbryantimes.com
History3
- 1854Village site surveyed at the crossing of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad and the St. Joseph River; laid out by civil engineer John H. Sargent for developer Charles Pratt and named…
- 1865Village incorporated by Williams County Commissioners after 41 residents petitioned (approved December 4, 1865).
- 1966Village's water treatment plant was built; as of a 2022 engineering review, most major process components (ion exchange units, valves, pumps) were still original to this 1966 plant.
Source: edgerton-ohio.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Edgerton treats its own drinking water drawn from 3 groundwater wells at a municipal plant built in 1966; the village's Water/Sewer Department also runs its own water-testing laboratory. The village site does not publish the specific chemical treatment train (disinfection, iron/manganese removal…
Source: edgerton-ohio.govbryantimes.com
Water pressure
not published
What it costs
No public $/1,000-gallon rate schedule was located online. The village's site references a Utility Rates page and Ordinance No. 1060 (revising water rates, second reading Oct.…
Source: edgerton-ohio.com
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (tap sample, individual results) EPA SDWIS lead-and-copper-rule sample records for OH8600312: 5 samples, highest 0.0049 mg/L, four non-detect. | 0 to 0.0049 mg/L | 0.015 (action… | unspecif… |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.9 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans1
Planned or needed
- Water treatment plant rehabilitation (ion exchange rebuild, media replacement, aeration/softening unit, SCADA… · $700,000 · 2022 · proposed
Village council approved applying for a Water Supply Revolving Loan and an OPWC grant per an August 2022 Bryan Times article; funding award and completion…
Source: bryantimes.com
Supply stress
No specific drought, groundwater-capacity, or contamination stress documented in sources reviewed; the system relies on 3 wells serving roughly 1,881 people. EPA SDWIS lists six non-health-based reporting/monitoring violations (1995-1998, 2006-2007, 2019-2020, most recently resolved August 2025), indicating recurring compliance-paperwork…
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Village Water/Sewer (Utility) Department operates sanitary sewer service including lift stations; no treatment-plant name, capacity, or receiving stream was confirmed from a source read.
Storm
Village history page notes storm sewers were built starting in 1958; current storm-sewer operations were not detailed in sources reviewed.
Source: edgerton-ohio.gov
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
- 43517 · Edgerton50% 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
Edgerton 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 Edgerton Village.
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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: edgerton-ohio.gov, bryantimes.com
History: edgerton-ohio.gov
Water quality: data.epa.gov
Planned work: bryantimes.com
Rates: edgerton-ohio.com
Sewers: edgerton-ohio.gov
Treatment: edgerton-ohio.gov, bryantimes.com
Supply stress: data.epa.gov