Water system
Trimble Village
EPA ID OH0501703 · Athens County · 480 people served · owned by a local government
Trimble Village 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
Did you know
- Trimble was originally platted as 'Oxford' before being renamed for Ohio Governor Allen Trimble.
- Its post office has operated continuously since 1839.
- Like neighboring Jacksonville, Trimble buys its drinking water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than running its own treatment plant, even though both villages grew up as independent coal-mining…
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History5
- early 1800sPlatted as 'Oxford' before being renamed Trimble to honor Ohio Governor Allen Trimble.
- 1839A post office named Trimble began operation and has run continuously since.
- 1920Population peaked at 806 during the Sunday Creek coal-mining boom, falling to 329 by the 2020 census.
- 1997Ohio EPA found the lower 13 miles of Sunday Creek, which runs through Trimble, could not support aquatic life ('irretrievably damaged') due to low pH from historic coal-mine acid drainage.
- 2018An 'Other' (SDWIS rule 420, public-notification/CCR-family) violation opened Dec. 14, 2018 and remains listed as open/unresolved in federal SDWIS as of this review (confirmed directly against the EPA…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Trimble buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own (confirmed: Ohio EPA SDWIS lists Trimble's primary source code as 'GWP' = purchased groundwater). The district's own source is the Hocking River buried-valley aquifer. Federal SDWIS's facility…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No facility-level pressure/PSI records exist in federal SDWIS for this system (facility table returns empty) and no CCR or engineering document with pressure data…
Source: data.epa.gov
What it costs
No published rate schedule, ordinance, or water-bill figure was found online for this 480-person village; Trimble does not appear to maintain an independent municipal website.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
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).
Supply stress
Trimble sits in the Sunday Creek watershed, historically affected by acid mine drainage from coal mining; Ohio EPA's 1997 study found the lower creek could not support aquatic life due to low pH. However, Trimble's drinking water is drawn from the separate Hocking River buried-valley aquifer via wholesale purchase from Burr Oak Regional…
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Not determined from available public sources whether Trimble has a municipal sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.
Storm
Not determined from available public sources.
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
- 45782 · Trimble94% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 45732 · Glouster0% 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
Trimble Village buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Trimble Village.
Photograph
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
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Water pressure: data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: en.wikipedia.org