Water system
Le-ax Regional Water District
EPA ID OH0501111 · Athens County · 19,311 people served
Le-ax Regional Water District treats its own water from Hocking River Valley aquifer (horizontal collector wells).
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Hocking River Valley aquifer
- Water bodies
- Hocking River
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 19,311 people · Athens County
- EPA ID
- OH0501111
Two horizontal collector wells ~200 ft south of the Hocking River in Dover Township, Athens County (same aquifer system as the City of Athens); no purchased water.
About this area's water
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.5 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Present in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 45766 · Waterloo Township and New Marshfield22% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 45701 · Athens0% 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
Le-ax Regional Water District does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Le-ax Regional Water District: Albany Village.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 ZIP codes 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
Le-ax Regional Water District's own pages: le-ax.com, le-ax.com