6/16/2024
WT Staff
 Safe Drinking Water Act
Sandusky City
High concentration HAB expanding in Sandusky Bay
Sunday, June 16, 2024 948 am EDT
June 15: The high concentration one million to 1.5 million cells per 100 ml HAB mass in Sandusky Bay has expanded again overnight, now occupying two thirds of the inner bay from south shore to north shore from Bay View/Martin Point, west of OH-269 past White's Landing. The highest concentration is found along the north and south edges of the mass. The HAB has moved further east in the outer bay area now widespread from Bay View OH-269 to Johnson's Island, concentration 1 million cells per 100 ml and becoming slightly less concentrated toward Lake Erie outlet, appearing around 900 thousand cells per 100 ml east of Johnsons Island.
The first glimpse of HAB in Sandusky Bay in 2024 came in the satellite image captured June 11 at the unusually low wind speed 3.4 mph. In this image we saw a widespread HAB in the inner bay area from Bay View and the south shore stretching west into the open water at 1.5 million cells per 100 ml. Note wind speed above 4 mph can cause the HABs to become submerged. The wind speed is often above 4 mph, this image captured at 3.4 mph comes with a higher degree of confidence in the interpretation of the size or extent of the mass.
Raw water intakes for Sandusky City and Upper Sandusky drinking water facilities are located in the outer bay area. Mandatory testing for algal toxins in raw drinking water sources is underway for the 2024 season. The total microcystins sampled during the first full week of June, period ending June 8 was below the minimum reporting level. No new results have been added to the publicly available information as of this report, the next test results published by Ohio EPA will align with the timing of this HAB appearing, more to follow.
Drinking Water Facility: Sandusky City
Owner: local government
Location: Sandusky, OH
County: Erie
Watershed: Lake Erie - Sandusky River
Active Permit: OH2201411
Established: January 1, 1901
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 25793 residents, 55610 wholesale customers
Connections: 10500 combined, metered
Source: surface water intake in Sandusky Bay, intake in Lake Erie
Admin Contact: Aaron Klein tel 419-627-5829
Latest Compliance Inspection:
Regularly scheduled site visit: Oct 14, 2023
Sanitary survey, complete October 14, 2021 (State)
Minor deficiencies noted in Management Operation, Finished Water Storage
Minor deficiencies noted in Distribution, Finished Water Storage, Pumps
Recommendations made for Distribution
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending December 31, 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database April 10, 2024)
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Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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0 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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0
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No Violations
*Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
Drinking Water matters
Ohio EPA publishes current drinking water advisories with the following notation "Public water systems are required to monitor their water regularly for contaminants. Currently, more than 95 percent of community water systems meet all health-based standards. When a system doesn't meet a standard, consumers are notified. Notifications may be in the form of signs or multimedia announcements."
WTOH.us checks in on the OEPA issued list regularly for new DW advisories and for the resolution of long term advisories. These drinking water advisories result from the standard monitioring and measurements in violation of quality parameters. Boil water advisories posted to the map as a result of water main breaks, service disruptions, loss of water pressure come up intermittently with advice provided by the drinking water facility to their impacted customers.
See yellow tags on the map for more information.
SDWA-EPA Serious Violators List
As of the latest quarter evaluated, ended December 31, 2023
4,228 Drinking Water Facilities with active permits in Ohio (18 less than last report)
- 1359 (32.1%) have Current Violations (increase of 23)
- 54 (1.3%) have Significant Violations (increase of 13)
- 346 (8.1%) have Formal Enforcement Actions (in the last 5 yrs)(decrease of 16)
- 0 Criminal Prosecutions under the Safe Drinking Water Act
- 123,000 (1%) of Ohio's 11,760,000 residents are served by Serious Violators (increase of 87,574 from Oct 23 list)
67.8% of Ohio facilities are compliant with Safe Drinking Water Act
EPA Serious Violators List updated April 10, 2024
Adena Village PWS, pop 820 (Jefferson)
Andover-Camplands Water, pop 6009 (Ashtabula)
Apollo Mobile Home Park, pop 100 (Sandusky)
Ashville Village*, pop 4298 (Pickaway)
Beaver Creek Estates, pop 39 (Geauga)
Brook Park Estate Mobile Home Park, pop 72 (Seneca)
Central Elementary School, pop 25 (Portage)
Community Gardens Mobile Home Park, pop 74 (Franklin)
Company Wrench PWS, pop 58 (Fairfield)
Concord Care Center of Cortland*, pop 95 (Trumbull)
Crooksville*, pop 2534 (Perry)
Delta Village, pop 3518 (Fulton)
Fayetteville Village PWS*, pop 500 (Brown)
Flushing Village PWS*, pop 1803 (Belmont)
Fireside Lake A PWS, pop 44 (Columbiana)
Flying Finn Family Campground, pop 203 (Columbiana)
Fohl Village Mobile Home Park, pop 450 (Stark)
Freeport Village PWS, pop 400 (Harrison)
Frontier Campground, pop 100 (Warren)
Funagins*, pop 75 (Lucas)
Grandview Heights Civic Association, pop 120 (Champaign)
Hiram Village PWS, pop 1406 (Portage)
Ironton*, pop 11129 (Lawrence)
Lake View Village Mobile Home Park*, pop 56 (Shelby)
Lakeside Mobile Home Community*, pop 465 (Licking)
Lakewood City PWS, pop 52,131 (Cuyahoga)
Laura Village*, pop 487 (Miami)
Milford City PWS, pop 6700 (Clermont)
New Paris Village PWS*, pop 1681 (Preble)
Newport Water and Sewer District PWS*, pop 1582 (Washington)
Northern Perry Co Water #1, pop 1567 (Perry)
Northwestern Water and Sewer District - McComb Village, pop 1650 (Hancock)
Oak Hills Mobile Home Park, pop 505 (Franklin)
ODNR - Hocking Hills - Cedar Falls*, pop 331 (Hocking)
Ohio Motel, pop 25 (Summit)
Peggy Js Restaurant*, pop 50 (Stark)
Perry Chapel Baptist Church*, New Church P*, pop 200 (Coshocton)
Pine Lake Trout Club*, pop 130 (Geauga)
Pleasant Hill Outdoor Center*, pop 75 (Richland)
Pomeroy Village PWS*, pop 1800 (Meigs)
Resco Products, Inc.*, pop 75 (Stark)
Richwood Village PWS*, pop 2316 (Union)
Roberts Trailer Park*, pop 50 (Perry)
Rock Creek Village, pop 529 (Ashtabula)
South Lebanon City PWS, pop 6541 (Warren)
Terrace Glen Mobile Home Park LLC*, pop 217 (Geauga)
The Cutting Board, pop 200 (Geauga)
Thompson Raceway Park PWS, pop 300 (Geauga)
Thurston Village Public Water System*, pop 604 (Fairfield)
Triad Middle School*, pop 675 (Champaign)
Waterford Water and Sewer Association*, pop 770 (Washington)
Wauseon City*, pop 7425 (Fulton)
West Lake Village Mobile Home Park PWS*, pop 83 (Shelby)
Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park, pop 62 (Pickaway)
*indicates a new listing in the current reporting period
facilities in bold also have drinking water advisories issued by Ohio EPA
Facilities removed from the Serious Violators list in April 2024:
- Carvel Manor Mobile Home Park*, pop 148 (Pickaway)
- Deer Creek Golf Course, pop 124 (Trumbull)
- Glandorf Village, pop 1001 (Putnam)
- Hamler Village, pop 627 (Henry)
- J.M. Smucker Company Store and Cafe PWS, pop 200 (Wayne)
- Lake Sherman Village PWS*, pop 563 (Stark)
- Liberty Baptist Temple PWS, pop 30 (Clark)
- Marblehead Village*, pop 865 (Ottawa)
- Mountainview Mobile Village, pop 300 (Logan)
- Riley Creek Baptist Church*, pop 60 (Hancock)
- Troy C Club Halfway House*, pop 40 (Miami)
- Van Wert City, pop 10,846 (Van Wert)
- Willow Run Golf Course*, pop 170 (Licking)
- Woodland Hills Estates II, pop 70 (Morgan)
Facilities removed from January 2024 Serious Violators list:
- Apple Creek Village Public Water Supply, pop 1190 (Wayne)
- Dillonvale, pop 665 (Jefferson)
- Frontier Campground*, pop 100 (Warren)
- Galion City*, pop 10089 (Crawford)
- Holden Arboretum*, pop 398 (Lake)
- Homestead Golf Course*, pop 200 (Miami)
- Honda Wetland Education Area*, pop 40 (Union)
- Lake Wapusun North Well Public Water System, pop 453 (Wayne)
- Laura Village PWS, pop 487 (Miami)
- Lews Tavern*, pop 25 (Richland)
- McDonalds Restaurant - Bainbridge*, pop 1530 (Geauga)
- Oasis of Love Community Church, pop 120 (Franklin)
- Pleasant Hill Outdoor Center*, pop 75 (Richland)
- Silver Top Sports Bar and Grill*, pop 45 (Sandusky)
- South Vienna Village Public Water System, pop 393 (Clark)
- Suburbans Community Mobile Home Park*, pop 655 (Madison)
- Terrace Lakes Camping, pop 100 (Columbiana)
- West Farmington Village PWS*, pop 908 (Trumbull)
- Westview Mobile Home Park, pop 450 (Wayne)
Facilities removed from Serious Violators list in previous reporting periods
- Casa Steak Seafood and Smoke House, pop 87, (Columbiana)
- Fairbridge Inn Express, pop 50 (Madison)
- Hayden Heights Mobile Home Park*, pop 188 (Franklin)
- Hidden Valley Campground, pop 50 (Portage)
- Hollansburg Park/Ball Diamond Public Water System, pop 100 (Darke)
- Holloway Public Water System*, pop 360 (Belmont)
- Joe's Place II, pop 100 (Shelby)
- Lithopolis Village PWS, pop 1573 (Fairfield)
- Majestic Oaks Lodge Public Water System, pop 32 (Hocking)
- Maysville Regional Water, pop 6540 (Muskingum)
- Salem – Lisbon KOA, pop 78 (Columbiana)
- South Lebanon Village*, pop 4115 (Warren)
- The Church of God at Newark, pop 60 (Licking)
- The Virtues Golf Club Clubhouse Public Water System, pop 150 (Licking)
- Zane Shawnee Caverns, pop 40 (Logan)
Facilities removed in previous reporting periods:
Ayersville Water and Sewer, pop 1660 (Defiance)
Beth Mobile Home Park, pop 188 (Stark)
Bill Hwangs Restaurant, pop 100 (Summit)
Blue Iguana PWS, pop 200 (Summit)
Brunersburg WD - Airport, pop 40 (Defiance)
Brunersburg – Evansport WD, pop 268 (Defiance)
Brush Creek Church of God, pop 50, Miami
Clover Valley Golf Club PWS, pop 90 (Licking)
Cuttys Sunset Camp PWS, pop 219 (Stark)
Debs Family Restaurant*, pop 64 (Carroll)
Delta Village PWS, pop 3518 (Fulton)
Dollar General #20756 Mount Sterling, pop 223 (Madison)
Dollar General #20694 Dunkirk, pop 204 (Hardin)
Fohl Village Mobile Home Park, pop 450 (Stark)
Geneva Hills – Geneva Lodge, pop 72 (Fairfield)
Global Compression Services*, pop 33 (Knox)
Holgate Village, pop 1150 (Henry)
London City PWS, pop 9394, (Madison)
Nelsonville PWS, pop 6656 (Athens)
Northeast Water System, pop 1250 (Fulton)
Put-in-Bay Village*, pop 700 (Ottawa)
Rayland Village, pop 417 (Jefferson)
South Solon Village Public Water System*, pop 395 (Madison)
Walt’s Tavern, pop 65 (Seneca)
Willow Lake Park, pop 110 (Trumbull)
From EPA definitions
“A Serious Violator (in the Safe Drinking Water Act program) is the most serious level of violation noted in EPA databases. This designation provides an indication of whether violations or noncompliance events at a given facility may pose a more severe level of concern for the environment or program integrity.”
*Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
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