Erie Co Perkins District

Water Quality Snapshot: Erie Co Perkins District

Erie Co Perkins District is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 17,241 residents in Huron, Ohio (Erie County) through 7,496 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 35 total violations for this system , of which 13 (37%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 13 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2020.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Coliform (TCR), recorded in 13 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Ohio, EPA tracks 4,181 public water systems serving 11,085,226 people, with 288,388 cumulative violations and 52,412 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 69 violations. Statewide, 204 of 346 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (59%).

Erie Co Perkins District's 35 violations sit below the Ohio average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.