2020 CCR Published in 2021
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Division of Drinking & Ground Waters
Village of Ashville Water Department
Our Vision Continues
Our objective is to fulfill Ashville's Vision, "offering an enhanced quality of life achieved through planning, progress and collaboration". We are once again pleased to present our annual water quality report covering all testing performed between January 1 and December 31, 2020. Over the years, we have dedicated ourselves to producing drinking water that meets all state and federal standards. We continually strive to adopt methods for delivering the best-quality drinking water to you. As challenges to drinking water safety emerge, we remain attentive in meeting the goals of source water protection, water conservation, and community education while continuing to serve the needs of all our water users. Please remember that we are always available should you ever have any questions or concerns about your water.
The complete 2020 report is on this webpage with notification through our newsletter about updates or new reports. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OhioEPA) requires all community public water systems to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) and provide information to their customers. This report contains information on our community's drinking water including the source of the water, contaminants detected, the likely sources of detected contaminants, health effects of the contaminants when violations occur, availability of source assessments, general health information, water quality test results, how to participate in decisions concerning your drinking water and water system contacts.
CCR's are required by the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Federal Rule (40 CFR 141.151 through 155) was finalized on August 19, 1998. In Ohio, the requirement is throught Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) Chapter 3745-96. We hope this information will provide you comfort and security. We recognize that water quality is a very important area of operation.
Your drinking water met all Ohio EPA standards.
A word from the Water Department
The Village of Ashville pumped 202.65 million gallons (MG) in 2020 with 24.399 removed in the process resulting in total finished pumped of 178.251 MG. The water department last year focused on the distribution system for most of the 2020 projects. The village had eight (8) water main breaks 4" lines or bigger. Our main well source had new controls installed and repairs were made to the controls within the plant. During covid and while most of everything was shut down, we managed to get 2 of our water towers cleaned and our tank on Cromley street repaired. A new drain port was added to this tower as well. We also began working on acquiring new land on the north of St. Rt. 752 for a new water tower site. The land was cleared, tested, and a new water tower will be under construction in the next year to year and half. This will improve water pressure on the north end of the village but will also help with any growth that will happen in the future. Once the new tower site is finished, the 1940's tower will be taken off-line, and the tower will be removed.
We also installed new antennas and radio equipment on the towers that will capture data for the new smart meter system. Meters are being changed out with approximately 80% of the residential meters switched out already. Once the system is fully online, which will be by the end of July 2021. Customers will be able to tell when water was used, alerts can be set up if usage is over the average, meters will be read more freguently saving a record of the usage, and many more functions that the old meters simply could not do. This will provide a better record of any concerns and help customers monitor how and when they use water and hopefully help conserve our most valuable resource.
Last year was a challenging year for everyone and I am proud of not only the village utility staff, but all the village employees for also keeping the plants going, streets clean, and residence safe. We were extremely understaffed making everyone do double duty and were many different hats. Thank you to the residence of Ashville for your patience and understanding. With a new year on us now we will face new challenges and changes, but I am confident if we have learned anything from 2020, we are stronger together. During the year we will be working on evaluating our current plant and working on a plan for replacement or upgrading the plant. Below you will find an informative article about tap vs. bottle water. For more information or any concerns, you can contact me personally at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..