Water system
Sunday Creek Valley Water
EPA ID OH0501503 · Athens County · 5,451 people served
Sunday Creek Valley Water buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Hocking River buried valley aquifer (sand and gravel)
- Active wells
- 6
- Serves
- 1,994 people · Athens County
- EPA ID
- OH0501311
6 wells pump ~4 MGD from a sand-and-gravel aquifer within the Hocking River buried valley system; serves Athens/Hocking/Morgan/Perry county customers.
About this area's water Burr Oak Regional Water District
Did you know
- The district has grown from its 1959 founding into a network of 6 wells, a 4-MGD plant, 4 booster stations, and 8 storage tanks, supplying (directly and wholesale) over 38,000 people across Athens, Hocking, Morgan, and…
- The district draws from the Hocking River buried-valley aquifer, a sand-and-gravel formation adjacent to the river rather than the river itself.
- Its current capital program pairs a GAC treatment upgrade for disinfection byproducts with a roughly 120,000-foot rural waterline expansion into Morgan County, funded partly by Ohio BUILDS (HB 168) and Appalachian…
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
History4
- 1959Burr Oak Regional Water District founded; now supplies water (directly and via 17 wholesale satellite systems - 8 villages, 7 rural systems, and Burr Oak State Park) across Athens, Hocking, Morgan…
- 2020EPA SDWIS records a non-health-based 'Other' (monitoring/reporting-category) violation with compliance period opening 1/10/2020; still shown unresolved (no compliance-period end date) in the current…
- 2024District began planning/design in October for a Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) treatment addition, engineered by Verdantas LLC with Kirk Brothers Co., Inc. as contractor, aimed at reducing…
- 2025District held an unconditioned Ohio EPA license to operate, per its CCR page.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Water is drawn from 6 wells tapping the Hocking River buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer and treated at a roughly 4-million-gallon-per-day plant; distribution runs through 4 booster pump stations, 8 elevated storage tanks, and 6"-18" mains. A GAC (granular activated carbon) stage is being added…
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
Water pressure
Not published/could not be independently verified. A pressure range (35-100+ psi, with a PRV recommended above 80 psi) surfaced in search summaries but could not be confirmed on…
What it costs
$11.10 per 1,000 gallons
Burr Oak system: $28.60 minimum monthly charge (covers first 2,000 gal), then $11.10 per 1,000 gallons above that; Satellite/large-volume rate is $5.70 per 1,000 gallons. Separate…
Source: burroakwater.org
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring/reporting violation (Other… Non-health-based violation, compliance period opened 1/10/2020, still open per EPA federal SDWIS/ECHO record; no… | N/A violation | N/A | 2020 |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record · Sunday Creek Valley Water
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 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).
EPA compliance record · Burr Oak Regional Water District (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 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).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Morgan County Waterline Expansion Project · 2024-2025 · under construction
Approximately 120,000 feet of new 2"-8" waterline with hydrants, valves, and services along SR-78, Drake Rd, Nichols Rd, Buck Run Rd, Finley Rd and others.…
Source: burroakwater.org
Planned or needed
- Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) treatment addition · 2024- · planned
Adds a GAC stage to reduce disinfection byproducts and meet Ohio EPA TTHM/HAA5 standards. Engineered by Verdantas LLC; contractor Kirk Brothers Co., Inc.…
Source: burroakwater.org
Supply stress
The buried-valley aquifer supply (about 4 MGD plant capacity) is not described anywhere as capacity-constrained for this population; the district's active capital spending is instead aimed at water-quality risk from disinfection byproducts, prompting the GAC addition, rather than raw-water scarcity.
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Burr Oak Regional Water District is a water-only district. No sewer service is described anywhere on its website; served villages/rural areas most likely rely on individual septic systems or separate municipal sewer utilities, but this was not separately confirmed for each community.
Storm
No storm-sewer role found; district's public materials cover only water distribution.
Source: burroakwater.org
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 4 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Sunday Creek Valley Water on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 4 more ZIP codes
- 45732 · Glouster6% of residents
- 45761 · Dover Township and Millfield6% of residents
- 45711 · Bern Township and Amesville1% of residents
- 45701 · Athens1% 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
Sunday Creek Valley Water buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Sunday Creek Valley Water.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 4 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