Water system
Flushing Village
EPA ID OH0700912 · Belmont County · 803 people served · owned by a local government
Flushing Village buys its water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Alluvial aquifer along the Ohio River, north of Bellaire
- Water bodies
- Ohio River (via alluvial aquifer)
- Active wells
- 1
- Serves
- 26,822 people · Belmont County
- EPA ID
- OH0700412
Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 sources from a shallow, high-susceptibility well/aquifer north of Bellaire tied to the Ohio River valley.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Flushing was platted in 1813, making it one of the older village sites in Belmont County.
- Its tap water travels from an aquifer well field near the Ohio River north of Bellaire rather than from any source within the village itself.
- Population peaked in 1980 at 1,266 residents (not 1940 as previously stated) and had fallen to 830 by 2020.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History5
- 1813The town site of Flushing was platted.
- 1849Flushing was incorporated as a village.
- 1980CORRECTED: Village population peaked at 1,266 residents (Wikipedia's full census table shows 1980, not 1940, as the actual high point; 1940 was 1,217).
- 2020Census recorded 830 residents, down about a third from the 1980 peak (2023 estimate 807).
- 2024-2025NEW: EPA SDWIS shows an open, non-health-based violation (rule 410, contaminant code 7500, consistent with a Consumer Confidence Report reporting/certification lapse) on Flushing's own system…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Flushing has no treatment plant of its own (its own wells and WTP were deactivated 2005-2007); it buys finished water via an active interconnect from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 (PWSID OH0700412), a groundwater system serving about 26,800 people from a well field and 'Belmont County WTP,' with…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published; no pressure-zone or tank-elevation data found for the village system.
What it costs
Current residential rate not published in sources reviewed for either Flushing or Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3; an earlier unsourced claim about rate increases reported 'on…
Water quality & impurities6
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Disinfection byproduct; within federal limit. Figure traceable to EWG Tap Water Database (site returned 403 on re-check… | 41.7 ppb | 80 | 2021-202… |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Within federal limit; same sourcing caveat as TTHM above. | 14.7 ppb | 60 | 2021-202… |
| Nitrate From supplying utility (Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3); well below limit. | 0.623 ppm | 10 | 2021-202… |
| Radium, combined (-226/-228) From supplying utility; within limit. | 0.67 pCi/L | 5 | 2018-202… |
| Chromium (hexavalent) Unregulated contaminant monitoring, from supplying utility. | 0.593 ppb | no federal limit | 2021-202… |
| Consumer Confidence Report / reporting Open, non-health-based SDWIS violation (rule 410) since 8/15/2024 on Flushing's own system; previously omitted from the… | N/A violation | N/A | 2024-pre… |
Source: ewg.orgdata.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 6.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
10 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 10 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
Not source-stressed in the drought/depletion sense: relies on a purchased Ohio River valley aquifer supply via Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 rather than a standalone well or surface intake. Disinfection byproducts (TTHM, HAA5) are present but within legal limits. The one open compliance issue found is administrative (a CCR-type…
Source: data.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not independently confirmed; the village's water supplier (Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3) is part of the county sanitary engineer's office, which also runs county sewer districts, but no dedicated Flushing sewer plant or consent decree was found.
Storm
Not published.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
Main water supplier in 3 ZIP codes
- 43951 · Union Township and Lafferty59% of residents
- 43977 · Flushing47% of residents
- 43983 · Flushing Township and Piedmont5% 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
Flushing Village buys its water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3.
No other system is on record buying water from Flushing Village.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 3 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, data.epa.gov
Water quality: ewg.org, data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov