Manchester Village

• Manchester was founded in 1790 as 'Massie's Station,' the first permanent settlement in the Virginia Military District, and renamed after Manchester, England the following year -- it is also commonly cited as the fourth…
• The village's water comes from just 2 wells tapping the Ohio River aquifer beneath the town, not the river itself.
• A 2000 federal appeals court case, Adams County Regional Water District v. Village of Manchester, pitted the village against a regional rural water utility over the right to serve customers in the area.
• Amazon Web Services is evaluating a roughly 1,000-acre, 1,300-megawatt data center site near Manchester on the grounds of a former coal-plant landfill -- a project still in the proposal stage, not yet built.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgwvxu.orglaw.justia.com

• 1790Founded by Nathaniel Massie as 'Massie's Station,' the first permanent settlement in the Virginia Military District; renamed Manchester (after Massie's ancestral Manchester, England) in 1791.
• 20006th Circuit decided Adams County Regional Water District v. Village of Manchester, Ohio, 226 F.3d 513, a dispute between the village and a federally indebted rural water utility over water service…
• 2010Village completed its Drinking Water Source Protection Plan, identifying a nearby trailer park's sewer lines (within 300 ft of Well #6) as a groundwater contamination risk. (Not independently…
• 2017-2024Manchester's annual CCR was reportedly cited nearly every year for content errors -- omitting or misreporting barium, copper, lead, chlorine, cyanide, fluoride, or HAA5 results. (Not independently…
• 2024-2025Reportedly failed to monitor disinfection byproducts from July-Sept 2024 (compliance restored Aug 2025) and missed the Oct 2024 federal deadline for a lead service line inventory (compliance restored…

Source: en.wikipedia.orglaw.justia.com

How it is treated

Groundwater from 2 wells drawing on the Ohio River aquifer; researcher's draft describes chlorine disinfection plus potassium permanganate for iron/manganese removal, pressure filtration through coal and silicate sand, a secondary chlorine dose, and a corrosion inhibitor before storage. This…

Water pressure

Not published -- no psi figures found in any accessible source.

Current residential rate schedule not published in any source located; village bills water and sewer online but no per-1,000-gallon rate or fixed charge could be found.

Source: purewaterguys.com

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.5 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

11 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 10 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Planned or needed

• Lead service line inventory · 2025 · completed
  Reportedly missed the Oct 16, 2024 federal deadline; village reportedly returned to compliance Sept 18, 2025 (no lead/galvanized/unknown lines identified).…

Manchester draws groundwater from wells in the Ohio River aquifer rather than the river itself. Amazon Web Services is evaluating roughly 1,000 acres in nearby Sprigg Township, Adams County for a 1,300-megawatt data center (about 30x the county's current annual electricity use); this is a proposed/evaluated project, not yet built, and…

Source: wvxu.org

Sanitary

The village's own Water/Sewage Department reportedly runs sanitary sewer service; published details on the wastewater plant's capacity, receiving stream, and any CSO or consent-decree status were not found.

Storm

Not published.

Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.