Water system
Ashland City
EPA ID OH0300112 · Ashland County · 20,648 people served · owned by a local government
Ashland City treats its own water from Jerome Fork Basin sand-and-gravel aquifer (wells).
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Jerome Fork Basin aquifer
- Active wells
- 13
- Serves
- 20,648 people · Ashland County
- EPA ID
- OH0300112
12 wells (70-300 ft) in Pleistocene sand-and-gravel aquifer of the Jerome Fork Basin, north of the treatment plant; no purchased water.
About this area's water
What it costs
No per-1,000-gallon or per-ccf schedule could be retrieved. Ashland bills by metered cubic feet, with the monthly charge depending on usage and service-line size; the rate table…
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans7
Recent and current work
- Lead and Copper Rule service line inventory · 2024 · completed
Inventory completed and published online; identifies lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement and unknown-material service lines. - SLIM notification compliance · 2025 · completed
Signed Service Line Inventory Material verification form returned to Ohio EPA 5/13/2025, resolving the reporting violation. - Water softener #1 replacement · $800,000 · 2023
Council authorized a not-to-exceed $800,000 purchase in November 2023 to replace a softener installed in 1970 and refurbished in 2008. Completion was not… - Well #7 rehabilitation · $75,000 · 2023
New pump, new lining and stainless steel drop pipe; contractor Moody's of Dayton Inc. Council approved November 2023; completion not confirmed in the sources… - Well #14 repair · $198,600 · 2025
Council approved roughly $198,600 in May 2025 to repair a collapsed well casing rather than $400,000-$600,000 for a replacement well. Completion not confirmed…
Source: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.comashlandsource.comashlandsource.com
Planned or needed
- Lead, galvanized and unknown service line replacement · 2025 onward · needed
Federal Lead and Copper Rule Improvements require annual notification and eventual replacement of lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement and unknown-material… - Wastewater plant overflow remedy / plant replacement · $70 million · 2023… · needed
Wastewater side, not drinking water. The city engineer said fixes would cost millions, with a new treatment plant potentially $60 million to $80 million (the…
Source: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.comashlandsource.com
Sewers
Sanitary
City-operated separate sanitary sewer system (not combined) with a wastewater plant on about 25 acres discharging to Lang Creek, a tributary of the Jerome Fork. The plant dates to 1939-40 with original buildings and tanks from 1939 and 1957, and treats roughly 4 million gallons a day. A 5-million-gallon equalization basin built in 2005…
Storm
The city's sewers are described as a separate sanitary system rather than combined, but no storm sewer detail, stormwater utility, or stormwater fee was found for Ashland in the sources reviewed.
Source: ashlandsource.com
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44805 · Ashland61% of residents
Population-weighted resident shares; a ZIP code can have more than one system on record. Recomputed from each ZIP's own system list, not from the map's cached footprint.
Buys from · Sells to
Ashland City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Ashland City.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code in all.
Sources
U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Ashland City's own pages: members.ashlandoh.com, ashland-ohio.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov
Notable facts: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, members.ashlandoh.com, ashlandsource.com, ashlandsource.com
History: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, ashlandsource.com, ashlandsource.com, ashlandsource.com
Water quality: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com
Planned work: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, ashlandsource.com
Capital projects: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, ashlandsource.com, ashlandsource.com
Rates: ashlandsource.com, ashlandutility.com
Sewers: ashlandsource.com
Treatment: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, members.ashlandoh.com, ashlandsource.com
Supply stress: files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com, ashlandsource.com, members.ashlandoh.com