Water system
Carey Village
EPA ID OH8800012 · Wyandot County · 3,674 people served · owned by a local government
Carey Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 3,674 people · Wyandot County
- EPA ID
- OH8800012
About this area's water
Did you know
- Carey's three municipal wells sit at Waterworks Park on the west edge of town and are open as deep as 210 feet in fractured limestone - a karst-influenced aquifer that Ohio EPA formally rates as highly susceptible to…
- The village's water plant and its wastewater plant each move almost exactly the same volume: the village reports nearly 550,000 gallons per day supplied and approximately 550,000 gallons per day discharged.
- Carey has been a water utility for over 130 years - the village dates its public water system to 1894 and its sewers to a 1938 Works Progress Administration project.
History5
- 1843R. M. Shuler and W. J. Buell laid out the town on land they owned, naming it for Judge John Carey, an early prominent resident of the region.
- 1858Carey was incorporated as an Ohio village on June 2.
- 1894The village's public water system was initiated and developed (per the Village's own history page).
- 1938Carey's sewer system was built through a WPA program.
- 2025Ohio EPA source water protection program status became effective for the system on December 3 (per EPA SDWIS).
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Three municipal wells near the west edge of Carey by Waterworks Park draw from fractured limestone, open between roughly 22 and 210 feet. Water is disinfected with chlorine (2021 total chlorine 1.1 ppm, range 0.5-1.7 ppm); no other treatment step is described in the CCR. The Village reports the…
Source: careyohio.govcareyohio.govcareyohio.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No CCR statement, engineering report, or pressure-zone map giving distribution pressures was located.
What it costs
No rate schedule, rate ordinance, or fee sheet is published on the village website; the only billing resource posted is an InvoiceCloud payment portal…
Source: careyohio.gov
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate Range 5.68-7.93 ppm; MCL and MCLG both 10 ppm. Ohio EPA cites this level as evidence of a pathway from the ground… | 6.86 ppm (mg/L) | 10 | 2021 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 22.4-28.4 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation. | 25.4 ppb | 80 | 2021 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 8.0-8.6 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation. | 8.3 ppb | 60 | 2021 |
| Total Chlorine Range 0.5-1.7 ppm; water additive used to control microbes. | 1.1 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2021 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level. Separately, the village posted a lead service line notification to… | 4.8 ppb | 15 (action… | 2021 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero samples exceeded the copper action level. | 0.19 ppm | 1.3 ppm / 1350… | 2021 |
| Barium Well below MCL/MCLG of 2 ppm. | 0.015 ppm | 2 | 2019 |
| Fluoride Naturally occurring; well below MCL/MCLG of 4 ppm. | 0.526 ppm | 4 | 2019 |
| Open non-health-based violations Per EPA SDWIS: an 'Other' non-health-based violation open since 2021-10-21 and a reporting violation open since… | 2 violations | 2025 |
Source: careyohio.govdata.epa.govcareyohio.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.1 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).
Supply stress
Ohio EPA's source water assessment, reprinted in the Village's CCR, rates Carey's drinking water source as having a high susceptibility to contamination for four stated reasons: nitrate present between 5.68 and 7.93 mg/L implying a pathway from the ground surface to the aquifer; the wells sit near a sensitive potential karst area; the…
Source: careyohio.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-run wastewater treatment plant, in the same Water and Wastewater Treatment department as the water plant (Director Michael Bakies, Class I water / Class II wastewater), producing a discharge of approximately 550,000 gallons per day released into the waters of the state. The village's sewer system dates to a 1938 WPA project.…
Storm
Not documented in any village or Ohio EPA source located.
Source: careyohio.govcareyohio.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
- 43316 · Carey61% 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
Carey 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 Carey 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: careyohio.gov, careyohio.gov, careyohio.gov
History: careyohio.gov, en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Water quality: careyohio.gov, data.epa.gov, careyohio.gov
Rates: careyohio.gov
Sewers: careyohio.gov, careyohio.gov
Treatment: careyohio.gov, careyohio.gov, careyohio.gov
Supply stress: careyohio.gov, data.epa.gov