{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH4103003", "name": "Wintersville Village", "county": "Jefferson", "population": 3924, "producer": false, "source_class": "ohio", "label": "Ohio River", "bodies": [ "Ohio River" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH4103003", "OH4101103", "OH4102811" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "2004", "EPA SDWIS records the village's purchased connection from the City of Steubenville deactivated December 16, 2004, leaving the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District as the sole active supplier." ], [ "2023", "The village completed a water meter replacement project; every service line was visually inspected on both the public and private side during the work, which is how the village established its…" ], [ "2025", "All of the village's water was purchased from the Jefferson County Water District, which itself buys from the City of Toronto's Ohio River plant at mile marker 59.2." ] ], "treat": "Wintersville does not treat water. It is a distribution-only system: the village purchases its entire finished-water supply from the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District (PWSID OH4101103), which in turn purchases from the City of Toronto Water Department, whose intake is on the Ohio River at…", "press": "Not published. Neither the CCR nor the village services page states a system pressure; the only storage figure published is the 250,000-gallon elevated tank.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published online. The village website has no rate schedule, no utility-rate page and no ordinance PDFs; its ordinances are hosted on American Legal's code library, which is…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total chlorine", "0.965 (range…", "mg/L", "MRDL 4", "2025", "Residual from the supplier's chlorination; Wintersville adds no treatment." ], [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "50.58 (range…", "ppb", "MCL 80", "2025", "The top of the detection range, 79.8 ppb, is within 0.2 ppb of the MCL. Long detention time in a purchased-water…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "55.13 (range…", "ppb", "MCL 60", "2025", "The running average is about 92 percent of the MCL and the high sample, 59.6 ppb, is just under it. This is the most…" ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "<1.00 (range…", "ug/L", "Action level 15…", "2025", "0 of 20 samples above the action level. The village reports no lead, no galvanized-requiring-replacement and no unknown…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "2.23 (range…", "ug/L", "Action level…", "2025", "0 of 20 samples above the action level. The CCR's units column is internally inconsistent here, heading the row 'COPPER…" ], [ "PFAS and lithium", "Not detected", "n/a", "n/a", "2025", "Under UCMR5 the system tested for 29 PFAS constituents plus lithium; none were detected in finished water, so no table…" ], [ "TTHM and HAA5 monitoring (SDWIS record)", "Two routine…", "n/a", "n/a", "2025", "EPA SDWIS carries major routine monitoring violations for TTHM (contaminant 2950) and HAA5 (2456) for the compliance…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Water meter replacement project, including visual inspection of every service line for the lead service line…", null, "2023", "completed", "" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "No local source and no local scarcity risk: the village buys all of its water and holds only 250,000 gallons of elevated storage, so its exposure is entirely to its two upstream suppliers. Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the Toronto Ohio River intake as highly susceptible to contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater…", "sew": { "s": "The village runs its own sanitary sewer. The Utilities Department has a sewer division of three employees whose lead operator holds a Class III Wastewater Works license, and EPA's facility registry lists the Wintersville A WWTP at 160 Marshall Rd Rear under NPDES permit OH0022144, currently administratively continued. Ohio EPA records…", "st": "The Wintersville Public Works (Street) Department is responsible for storm sewer maintenance and operation, alongside road, park and tree maintenance. No separate stormwater fee or system detail is published." }, "fun": [ "Wintersville's tap water changes hands twice before it arrives: the City of Toronto pulls and treats it from the Ohio River at mile marker 59.2, sells it to the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District, and the…", "The village treats nothing at all. Because it is purely a distribution system, Ohio EPA does not require it to run a plant; the water division's job is sampling, storage and pipes.", "The entire village is served from a single 250,000-gallon elevated tank, roughly two days of storage for about 1,900 customers.", "Wintersville reports zero lead, zero galvanized-requiring-replacement and zero unknown-material service lines, a rare clean sweep, established by eyeballing every service during the 2023 meter replacement.", "In 2025 the village tested for 29 different PFAS compounds plus lithium under UCMR5 and found none of them." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH4103003/JSON" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH4103003/JSON", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH4103003/JSON" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/" ], "rates": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/", "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/village-ordinances/" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4103003/JSON" ], "projects": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/FRS_PROGRAM_FACILITY/CITY_NAME/WINTERSVILLE/STATE_CODE/OH/JSON", "https://echodata.epa.gov/echo/cwa_rest_services.get_facility_info?p_pid=OH0022144&output=JSON" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/wp-content/uploads/go-x/u/6a124928-4ed2-452a-95bd-5ee506ed127a/2025-Village-of-Wintersville-CCR.pdf", "https://www.wintersvilleoh.us/services/" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43953", "share": 0.4159, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43944", "share": 0.2096, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH4103003.jpg", "caption": "Historic postcard view of the Ohio River at Steubenville, Ohio, Wintersville Village's water source", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4103003/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH4103003.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Wintersville Village · OH4103003\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4103003/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }