Water system
Nevada Village
EPA ID OH8800312 · Wyandot County · 814 people served · owned by a local government
Nevada Village buys its water from Bucyrus City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Sandusky River, Paul R. Outhwaite Reservoir, Roy Riley Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- Sandusky River
Outhwaite Reservoir
Riley Reservoir - Serves
- 12,570 people · Crawford County
- EPA ID
- OH1700011
Both reservoirs are off-stream up-ground impoundments filled by pumping from the Sandusky River, so the ultimate raw source is the river itself.
About this area's water Bucyrus City
Did you know
- Bucyrus does not drink from a river directly: it pumps the Sandusky River into two 'upground' reservoirs and draws from those, so the river's bad days can be waited out rather than treated.
- The Paul R. Outhwaite Reservoir, finished in 1982, holds a full billion gallons across 150 acres - about 300 days of supply on its own.
- The city has built four raw-water reservoirs since 1900 (Neff, Pines, Riley, Outhwaite), but only the two newest are named in the CCR as the current drinking water source.
- The treatment plant now slated for replacement went into continuous operation in May 1950 and was built on a $463,206 bid from Richland Construction Company of Mansfield.
- Bucyrus still runs a combined sewer system laid in the 1930s, and its bill separates out a 'storm water separation' charge for undoing it.
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.us
History6
- 1882Original waterworks installed with Walker steam pumps by the privately owned Bucyrus Development Company, drawing directly from the Sandusky River through wooden mains.
- 1900Neff Reservoir built - 40 acres, 90 million gallons, 1.75 sq mi watershed - the system's first raw-water impoundment.
- 1914Sand filtration began, with a 500,000-gallon clearwell for treated water storage.
- 1919Pines Reservoir added - 38 acres, 58 million gallons, 2.50 sq mi watershed.
- 1926The City of Bucyrus purchased the water works from the Bucyrus Development Company.
- 1939Construction of the city's wastewater treatment plant began, with primary and secondary treatment.
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.us
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Surface water from two upground reservoirs - the 1-billion-gallon Outhwaite on St. Rt. 98 N and the 180-million-gallon Riley on Kiess Road - is treated by lime softening with sand filtration and clearwell storage (a 500,000-gallon clearwell from 1914 and a 1-million-gallon in-ground clearwell from…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.us
Water pressure
Not published. Storage includes a 500,000-gallon elevated tank on Warren Street plus 500,000-gallon and 1-million-gallon clearwells at the plant; no distribution pressure figure…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.us
What it costs
$17.65 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $53 a month for water.
Bucyrus bills purely volumetrically with no fixed minimum: $13.20 per billing unit for water since Jan. 1, 2025 (a 15% increase, the first since 2019). The billing unit is a CCF…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.usdam.assets.ohio.govcityofbucyrusoh.us
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 25.1-72.6 ppb; chlorination by-product; no violation. | 72.6 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 0-17.7 ppb; chlorination by-product; no violation. | 15.7 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total Chlorine Range 1.1-1.7 ppm; disinfectant residual. | 1.6 ppm | MRDL 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.19-1.23 ppm; fertilizer runoff, septic leaching, natural deposits. | 1.23 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.73-1.30 ppm; natural deposits plus additive. | 0.99 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium Drilling wastes, refinery discharge, erosion of natural deposits. | 0.016 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Turbidity Range 0.02-0.16 NTU; 100% of samples met the standard. | 0.16 NTU | TT (treatment… | 2025 |
| Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio) Range 1.7-3.9; well above the compliance floor. | 2.5 ratio | TT (must exceed… | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 30 samples exceeded the action level. | 0 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 30 samples exceeded the action level. | 0.029 ppm | 1.3 (action… | 2025 |
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.us
EPA compliance record · Nevada Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.8 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Bucyrus City (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
- 2017Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 3 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- Lead and copper service line inventory · 2025 · completed
Inventory developed and published under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; viewable through the water distribution tab on the city site. No cost published…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.us
Planned or needed
- New Bucyrus water treatment plant, Beechgrove Road · planned
Planned 3.0 MGD lime-softening plant to replace the 1950 facility. The city's water plant page states the location and capacity; no cost, funding source or… - Wastewater treatment plant replacement · $59 million · proposed
City is advancing discussions with Ohio EPA to replace the 1939-era facility. Local reporting puts the estimate at $62 million initially, reduced to about $59…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.uscrawfordcountynow.comcrawfordcountynow.com
Supply stress
The 2025 CCR notes that in Ohio all surface waters are considered moderately susceptible to contamination, and names the specific threats in the Bucyrus source water protection area: agriculture, a hazardous waste landfill, new home construction, junk yards, roadways and railways. Supply is buffered rather than run-of-river - roughly…
Sewers
Sanitary
City-run wastewater treatment plant discharging tertiary-treated effluent to the Sandusky River under NPDES permit 2PD00021*MD. Average daily flow 3.4 MGD, peak capacity 6.0 MGD, designed for a population of 15,500. Process train: influent pumping, primary settling, activated-sludge secondary treatment, tertiary filtration, UV…
Storm
Bucyrus operates a COMBINED sewer system dating from the 1930s that collects both sanitary and stormwater flow - the single most consequential fact about its wastewater system. The city runs a separate storm water management program; Ohio EPA's 2022 rate…
Source: cityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.uscityofbucyrusoh.us
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44849 · Nevada33% 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
Nevada Village buys its water from Bucyrus City.
No other system is on record buying water from Nevada Village.
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