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
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.
- 2018A violation for an inadequate yearly water quality report (the Consumer Confidence Report) opened Dec. 14, 2018 and remains listed as open in federal records.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Trimble buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own (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 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
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.
What the records show about Trimble Village
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Trimble Village as owned by a local government. It has 198 service connections and serves 480 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
Its office telephone on EPA's record is 740-767-2341.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
Trimble Village buys water that Burr Oak Regional Water District treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Burr Oak Regional Water District: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, ion-exchange softening, and sand or media filtration.
The list is what each system registered with EPA for treatment plants EPA still shows as active, and it can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Violations
EPA's record shows no health-based violations for Trimble Village since 2015.
EPA logs no violations of any kind for Trimble Village since 2020.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) violation records: health-based violations with compliance periods beginning in 2015 or later, all violations from 2020 or later (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Lead and copper at the tap
In the sampling period ending December 2024, the 90th-percentile lead result at Trimble Village was 1 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 3 sampling periods on file for Trimble Village since 2016, the first ending in 2018; no period was above 10 ppb.
Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Trimble Village sent EPA, 189 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 189 |
| All lines | 189 |
Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder. The 90th-percentile result is the level nine in ten of the sampled homes were at or below. Lead comes mostly from service lines and house plumbing, not the source water, so a low result for the system does not clear an old house.
EPA's dashboard status for this inventory: reported all required service line types.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) lead and copper 90th-percentile results (EPA Envirofacts), sampling periods ending 2016 or later; EPA's service line inventory dashboard, Ohio's 2026 Q2 submission.
PFAS
The water Trimble Village buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Burr Oak Regional Water District (latest sample June 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Burr Oak Regional Water District as sampled, most recently June 2026.
PFAS are the 'forever chemicals' from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026); Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling, 2019 to 2021, and its sampling status map.
Disinfection byproducts
Chlorine that disinfects water also reacts with organic matter to form byproducts. Two groups have federal limits: total trihalomethanes (TTHM, 80 µg/L) and five haloacetic acids (HAA5, 60 µg/L), judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site.
For TTHM, the average of Trimble Village's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 30.1 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 37.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 45.9 µg/L, from 9 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 8.4 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 11.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 13.3 µg/L, from 9 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 30.1 µg/L (2019) | 37.6 µg/L | 45.9 µg/L | 9 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 8.4 µg/L | 11.7 µg/L | 13.3 µg/L | 9 |
A yearly average of 0 means nothing was detected in that year's samples. EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system samples (non-detects counted as zero).
Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity
The water Trimble Village buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
Nitrate: the highest of 10 samples was 0.48 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2013; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 10 | 0.48 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
Measured in finished water: at the plant's entry points and in the distribution system; raw well and intake samples are left out. Non-detects count as zero.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Solvents and fuels
The water Trimble Village buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
EPA's file holds results for all six solvent and fuel compounds it checked. Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and vinyl chloride were not detected in 9 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
"Not detected" means the lab's result was below what its method can measure, not that the compound is absent. Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Farm chemicals and metals
The water Trimble Village buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 53.8 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 2 samples, alachlor in 2 samples, chromium in 3 samples, cadmium in 3 samples, mercury in 3 samples, selenium in 3 samples, thallium in 3 samples.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 53.8 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 1 of 96 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Trimble Village tested positive (1.04%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 1 sample tested for it.
A positive coliform test is a warning sign, not a violation by itself. E. coli is a sign that human or animal waste may have reached the water. Coliform counts are routine samples only; E. coli counts include repeat samples.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system presence/absence tests for total coliform and E. coli.
Fluoride
The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says Trimble Village buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, a system that adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Burr Oak Regional Water District, which treats the water Trimble Village buys.
Measured fluoride: 1 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Burr Oak Regional Water District, which supplies Trimble Village, in 2017 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.92 to 1.04 mg/L across 3 samples in 2012 to 2019.
The recommended level for preventing tooth decay is 0.7 mg/L; the federal limit is 4 mg/L. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched September 2026); EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, entry-point fluoride samples.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Trimble Village with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.
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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH0501703 (EPA ECHO).
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
