Water system
Coolville Village
EPA ID OH0500603 · Athens County · 859 people served · owned by a local government
Coolville Village buys its water from Tuppers Plains/chester Water District.
The system's record
- Active wells
- 6
- Serves
- 16,087 people · Meigs County
- EPA ID
- OH5300612
District's WTP in Long Bottom draws from 6 wells (~1.2 MGD combined); the specific named aquifer is not documented in available sources beyond "groundwater/wells" near the Ohio River in Meigs County.
About this area's water Tuppers Plains/chester Water District
Did you know
- The district's treatment plant is built to strip C-8 (PFOA) and other 'forever chemicals' out of the water along with iron and manganese - an unusual capability for a small rural system, and a legacy of PFAS…
- The source is the Ohio Valley Aquifer, tapped by seven wells at Long Bottom; the treatment plant sits on Sand Hill Cemetery Road, directly across SR 124 from the wellfield.
- Twenty-one storage tanks holding over 3.1 million gallons and more than 600 miles of water line serve roughly 5,700 homes across a hilly, sparsely populated two-county area.
- The board is five directors elected by the district's own customers to three-year terms - the founding trustees are still named in every annual water quality report.
- It keeps emergency interconnects with Leading Creek Conservancy District, the Villages of Racine and Syracuse, and the City of Athens, but reports that on average these connections are not used in a given year.
History3
- 1966Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District created December 31, 1966 as a nonprofit government entity of Ohio under ORC Chapter 6119; original water board trustees were Lindsey L. Lyons Jr., Carl J.…
- 2024Ohio River crested above 41 feet on April 5, putting part of the Long Bottom wellfield underwater; a raw untreated sample taken April 6 tested positive for E. coli and customers were notified that…
- 2026Ohio EPA announced April 7 that the district would receive $4 million from the DuPont PFAS settlement distribution to install waterline extensions serving homeowners with PFOA-contaminated private…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Water is drawn from seven wells at Long Bottom in the Ohio River valley, tapping the Ohio Valley Aquifer, and treated at the district's plant on Sand Hill Cemetery Road, across SR 124 from the wellfield. The district states its treatment process removes C-8 (PFOA) and other 'forever chemicals'…
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Water pressure
Not published. The district's CCR mentions 'normal water pressures of around 50 psi' only as a generic illustration in a warning about thermal expansion damage in home plumbing…
Source: tpcwd.org
What it costs
$7.50 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $36 a month for water.
Rates differ by service area, and only the monthly minimum differs -- the volumetric tiers are identical across all three. Original system: $28.30 per month minimum including the…
Source: tpcwd.org
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as N) Runoff from fertilizer use; erosion of natural deposits. | 1.52 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.76-1.07 ppm; natural deposits plus the additive the district doses at the plant. | 0.91 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium Mineral deposits, drilling waste. Monitored less than annually. | 0.050 ppm | 2 | 2024 |
| Total Chlorine Range 0.87-1.71 ppm; disinfection residual. | 1.13 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range as printed 16.2-16.5 ppb; no violation. Well under the MCL, as expected for a groundwater system with low organic… | 16.0 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Gross alpha particle activity Natural background sources and decay of radionuclides; monitored less than annually. | 0.19 pCi/L | 15 | 2021 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 30 sampled homes over the action level. The district samples 30 homes each year. | 1.3 ppb | 15 (action… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 30 sampled homes over the action level. Equivalent to 0.121 ppm against a 1.3 ppm action level. | 121 ppb | 1300 (action… | 2025 |
| Hardness (calcium, finished water) Reported by the district after softening; it warns customers to flush hot water heaters every 6-12 months to control… | 110-150 mg/L | no standard… | 2025 |
Source: tpcwd.org
EPA compliance record · Coolville Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.8 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
10 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 9 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Tuppers Plains/chester Water District (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans4
Recent and current work
- Phase 10 Water System Improvements · $6.8 million · completed
Roughly 45,600 feet of 12-inch, 10-inch, and 8-inch waterline replacement, a new 250,000-gallon elevated storage tank, a new above-grade 500 gpm booster…
Source: verdantas.com
Planned or needed
- DuPont settlement waterline extensions to PFAS-contaminated private wells · $4 million · 2026 · planned
Announced by Ohio EPA on April 7, 2026 as part of a $65 million distribution from the DuPont PFAS settlement. The extensions will connect homeowners in Meigs… - SR 248 and Bashan Road Water Line Replacement · planned
Replacement of approximately 17,800 feet of outdated and undersized water main with new 12-inch and 10-inch PVC C900 waterline plus 41 service replacements in… - Water Line Improvements 2025 (Athens and Meigs Counties) · 2026 · planned
Waterline improvements to be financed through Ohio EPA's Water Supply Revolving Loan Account; an Ohio EPA Limited Environmental Review was issued and the…
Source: wsaz.comtpcwd.orgciviciq.com
Supply stress
The most substantiated risk is contamination, not scarcity. Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Source Assessment determined the district's aquifer has HIGH susceptibility to contamination, and the district has built a source water protection plan around it. The Long Bottom wellfield sits in the Ohio River floodplain: when the river passed 41 feet…
Sewers
Sanitary
The district supplies water only and provides no sewer service. Households across its Meigs and Athens County service area are generally on individual septic systems; the district's own PFAS waterline extension work is aimed at homes on private wells, and its customer materials repeatedly address septic-system topics. No district-owned…
Storm
Not applicable - the district operates no storm sewer system and publishes nothing on stormwater.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
No ZIP code has Coolville Village on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 45723 · Troy Township and Coolville10% 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
Coolville Village buys its water from Tuppers Plains/chester Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Coolville Village.
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