Water system
North Baltimore Village
EPA ID OH8701611 · Wood County · 3,432 people served · owned by a local government
North Baltimore Village treats its own water from Rocky Ford Creek (via North Baltimore upground reservoirs).
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Rocky Ford Creek, North Baltimore Reservoir No. 1, North Baltimore Reservoir No. 2
- Raw intakes
- Reservoir
Rocky Ford - Serves
- 3,432 people · Wood County
- EPA ID
- OH8701611
Village fills two upground reservoirs from Rocky Ford Creek (a Portage River tributary), matching SDWIS 'INTAKE ROCKY FORD 2' and the two named reservoirs.
About this area's water
Did you know
- North Baltimore does not dam its creek - it pumps from a single Rocky Ford Creek intake into two upground (offstream) reservoirs, whose embankments run about 7,200 feet and are rated a high hazard potential dam in the…
- The village's plant is a lime-softening plant with upflow clarifiers, and it runs at only about 38% of its 1.658 million gallon per day capacity.
- Not one of the twenty homes sampled in 2025 exceeded the lead or copper action level, and only one had any detectable lead at all - yet the village still began replacing lead service lines in September 2026.
- Of the six PFAS compounds now federally regulated, all were non-detect in four rounds of 2025 sampling; the only PFAS the village found at all was unregulated PFBA, at a few thousandths of a unit.
- The village turned 150 in 2026 and threw the NB 150 Festival that June.
History4
- 1876North Baltimore was incorporated as a village; the village seal reads 'ESTD 1876' and the village marked its sesquicentennial with the NB 150 Festival in June 2026.
- 1969The two North Baltimore upground reservoirs were completed - earthen embankments up to 24 feet high and about 7,200 feet long, engineered by Floyd G. Browne & Associates, per the National Inventory…
- 2025Council adopted Resolution No. 30-2025 authorizing the village administrator to apply for and enter into an Ohio EPA Water Supply Revolving Loan Account agreement for planning, design and/or…
- 2026Construction of the village's lead service line replacement project was scheduled to begin in mid-September, per the village administrator's September 2026 report to council.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Surface water from a single intake on Rocky Ford Creek is pumped into two offstream upground reservoirs and then treated at the village's lime-softening plant, which uses upflow clarifiers to settle out contaminants, followed by filtration and chlorination. Plant treatment capacity is 1,658,000…
Source: northbaltimore.govnorthbaltimore.gov
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the 2023 nor the 2025 consumer confidence report, nor the village water and sewer department page, gives a distribution pressure or pressure-zone…
What it costs
Not published. The village's water and sewer department page carries a bill-pay portal, a service line inventory and staff contacts, but no rate schedule, and no current rate…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Highest running annual average; range of individual detections 28.3-69.4 ppb. This is the system's closest approach to… | 70.48 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Range 13.3-25.43 ppb. | 25.50 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Range 1.68-2.23 ppm. | 2.12 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.0-1.36 ppm. | 1.36 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.8-1.11 ppm. | 0.86 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium | 0.029 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Turbidity Highest recorded 2025 result; 100% of monthly samples met the turbidity limit. Range 0.01-0.19 NTU. | 0.19 NTU | 0.3 NTU in 95%… | 2025 |
| Total organic carbon (removal ratio) Ratio of TOC actually removed to TOC required to be removed; range 1.9-2.5, so the plant is comfortably in compliance. | 2.2 ratio | 1.0 (treatment… | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) One of 20 samples had any detectable lead; zero of 20 exceeded the action level. | 0.0 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Range 0.0-0.021 ppm; 0 of 20 samples above the action level. | 0.015 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2025 |
Source: northbaltimore.gov
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.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- Lead service line replacement project · 2026 · under construction
Village administrator's report to the September 8, 2026 council meeting states construction was planned to begin in mid-September 2026. No cost or funding…
Source: northbaltimore.gov
Planned or needed
- Reservoir stormwater improvement project · 2026 · proposed
Council adopted Resolution No. 24-2026 as an emergency authorizing an Ohio Public Works Commission application for the village park and reservoir stormwater… - Water facilities planning/design/construction under an Ohio EPA WSRLA loan · 2025 · proposed
Resolution No. 30-2025 authorized the village administrator to apply for and enter into a WSRLA agreement for water facilities. The available minutes summary…
Supply stress
The system depends entirely on one intake on Rocky Ford Creek - a small stream whose two tributaries rise north of McComb and northeast of Findlay and converge south of State Route 18 by the Birch Run golf course - pumped into two upground reservoirs. The CCR notes that Ohio treats all surface water as susceptible to contamination and…
Source: northbaltimore.govsnoflo.org
Sewers
Sanitary
The village runs its own sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment plant, funded through a Sewer Operating fund and a Sewer Capital Projects fund and served by a Sewer Equipment Replacement Reserve; August 2026 warrants include a sewer plant surge suppressor, a sewer plant server, and blanket payments for trash and sludge hauling…
Storm
The village operates a separate storm sewer utility with its own Storm Sewer Operating fund, and in 2026 was preparing Ohio Public Works Commission applications for stormwater improvement projects at the village park and at the reservoir. No system…
Source: northbaltimore.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
- 45872 · North Baltimore83% 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
North Baltimore Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from North Baltimore Village: Northwestern W and SD - Mccomb.
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
North Baltimore Village's own pages: snoflo.org
Notable facts: northbaltimore.gov, snoflo.org, northbaltimore.gov
History: northbaltimore.gov, snoflo.org, citizenportal.ai
Water quality: northbaltimore.gov
Planned work: northbaltimore.gov, citizenportal.ai
Water pressure: northbaltimore.gov, northbaltimore.gov
Capital projects: northbaltimore.gov
Rates: northbaltimore.gov, northbaltimore.gov
Sewers: northbaltimore.gov
Treatment: northbaltimore.gov, northbaltimore.gov
Supply stress: northbaltimore.gov, snoflo.org