Water system
Pemberville Village
EPA ID OH8701712 · Wood County · 1,326 people served · owned by a local government
Pemberville Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (8 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 8
- Serves
- 1,326 people · Wood County
- EPA ID
- OH8701712
About this area's water
Did you know
- Pemberville's water system draws from 8 wells spread across 3 separate well fields, then treats it via ion exchange at two village plants rather than conventional filtration.
- Both village water plants are checked 365 days a year by a single Ohio EPA Class 1-licensed operator.
- Ohio EPA's source-water assessment flags Pemberville's aquifer as sitting in a sensitive karst zone with well casings only 25 feet deep -- a notably shallow, vulnerable setup.
- In 2025 the village produced an average of about 80,542 gallons of treated water a day (29,398,000 gallons for the year) for roughly 1,326 residents -- a figure confirmed directly in the village's own CCR.
Source: files.cdn-files-a.com
History5
- 2005Earliest Consumer Confidence Report archived on the village website (confirmed: the village's water department page lists a full CCR archive back to 2005).
- 2020Well field sampled under Ohio's statewide PFAS Sampling Initiative; six PFAS compounds tested, none detected in finished water.
- 2023Water tower replacement project reached full funding ($838,000 in Ohio Public Works Commission grant/loan money, per the mayor); by September 2023 total project cost was reported at about $2.2…
- 2024Village reviewed and updated its Drinking Water Source Protection Plan and Water Supply Contingency Plan.
- 2025Village completed installation of a new 150,000-gallon elevated storage tank; the North Water Treatment Plant exceeded its plan-approval hardness limit (150 mg/L) on July 1 (205 mg/L), Aug. 14 (205…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from 8 wells across 3 well fields is treated by ion exchange units at two village water treatment plants (including a North plant), operated and checked 365 days a year by a single Ohio EPA Class 1-licensed operator. Confirmed verbatim against the village's own 2025 CCR.
Source: files.cdn-files-a.com
Water pressure
Not published; no psi figure appears in the CCR or on the village site, though the 2025 addition of a 150,000-gallon elevated storage tank (replacing a smaller tower) implies…
Source: files.cdn-files-a.com
What it costs
No current published tariff was located this session (the codified ordinance page did not render its fee-schedule text, and no rate resolution PDF was found). As of a Nov. 2025…
Source: google.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 35.4-48.7 ppb; no violation. Confirmed against the village's own 2025 CCR data table. | 48.7 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 12.9-13.6 ppb; no violation. | 13.6 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.61-1.19 ppm; no violation. | 1.19 ppm | 4.0 | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of sampled sites over the action level. | 1.2 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 sites over the action level. | 0.295 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha (excl. radon/uranium) No violation. | 5.26 pCi/L | 15 | 2025 |
| Total Hardness Exceeded the plan-approval limit on July 1 (205), Aug 14 (205) and Sept 4 (233 mg/L) at the North Water Treatment… | 233 (peak) mg/L | 150… | 2025 |
| PFAS (6 compounds tested) None detected, statewide PFAS initiative sampling. | ND ppt | n/a | 2020 |
| Barium No violation; added from the village CCR's full contaminant table. | 0.0192 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Arsenic No violation. | 0.0006 ppm | 0.010 | 2025 |
Source: files.cdn-files-a.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2017Lead and Copper Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 5 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- 150,000-gallon elevated storage tank (with waterline looping) · $2.2 million · 2025 · completed
Replaced a smaller 100,000-gallon tower; total project reported at ~$2.2M by local press in Sept. 2023 (~$1M Wood County, $838,000 OPWC, $300,000 local funds).…
Source: sent-trib.comcms8.revize.com
Planned or needed
- Water/sewer base rate increase · 2025 · proposed
Reported base rate proposal of $38 for the first 1,000 gal plus $8.50/1,000 gal thereafter, to address sewer-fund insolvency risk (sewer is billed off water…
Source: google.com
Supply stress
Confirmed directly against Pemberville's 2025 CCR: Ohio EPA's Vulnerability Assessment rates the source as highly susceptible to contamination because the wells sit in a sensitive karst area, the aquifer is shallow (under 25 ft below ground surface), well casings are shallow (25 ft), and potential contaminant sources exist within the…
Source: files.cdn-files-a.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-operated sanitary sewer; sewer billing is tied to metered water usage. The claim that the sewer fund faced insolvency risk and prompted a proposed rate hike could not be independently confirmed this session (see rates note) -- treat as reported but unverified. Treatment plant name/capacity/receiving stream were not confirmed in…
Storm
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
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
- 43450 · Pemberville38% 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
Pemberville 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 Pemberville Village.
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.cdn-files-a.com
History: pemberville.org, files.cdn-files-a.com, sent-trib.com, sent-trib.com
Water quality: files.cdn-files-a.com
Planned work: google.com
Water pressure: files.cdn-files-a.com
Capital projects: sent-trib.com, cms8.revize.com
Rates: google.com
Treatment: files.cdn-files-a.com
Supply stress: files.cdn-files-a.com