Water system
Holloway Public Water System
EPA ID OH0701112 · Belmont County · 360 people served
Holloway Public Water System treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 360 people · Belmont County
- EPA ID
- OH0701112
About this area's water
Did you know
- Despite serving only about 360 people through 136 connections, Holloway's water plant runs a full multi-barrier treatment train — permanganate oxidation, sedimentation, rapid sand filtration, and packed-tower aeration —…
- EPA's SDWIS database lists Holloway's water system as privately owned and operated out of a single named contact rather than a conventional village utility office.
- One of the system's two water storage tanks has sat inactive since 2017, and EPA compliance records for the system stretch back to a 1997 treatment-technique violation.
History6
- 1997EPA SDWIS records a health-based treatment-technique violation (code 65) opened January 1997, resolved February 1998 — the earliest entry on file for this system.
- 2016-2018Two major monitoring/reporting violations opened October 2016 were not returned to compliance until September 2018, per EPA SDWIS.
- 2018-2022A string of administrative ('Other') violations was opened between September 2018 and January 2022; several remain listed as outstanding in EPA records.
- 2022-2023Monitoring violations (code 3A) opened October 2022 through January 2023 were resolved by March 2023; a separate 'Other' violation from July 2022 was resolved that November.
- 2024Ohio EPA opened a health-based treatment-technique violation (code 2E, tied to the federal Lead and Copper Rule's lead-service-line-inventory deadline) plus a reporting violation (4G) on October 17…
- 2025A further administrative ('Other') violation was opened October 29, 2025 and remains outstanding, per EPA SDWIS.
Source: data.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from two wells (Well 0001, Well 0002) is treated at the Holloway WTP with a multi-barrier process — permanganate oxidation, sedimentation, rapid sand filtration, and packed-tower aeration — followed by post-treatment hypochlorination (chlorination) before entering the distribution…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published — no pressure-zone or engineering data found for this system in EPA SDWIS or elsewhere.
What it costs
Current residential water rate not published in any source found. EPA SDWIS lists the system's ownership as 'private' with a single named contact (Anita Schaeffer, 309 Ashton St.…
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
14 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 13 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
No specific stress indicators found in sources reviewed. This is a small 2-well groundwater system serving about 360 people through 136 connections in rural Belmont County; one of its two storage tanks (Tank 001) has been inactive since June 2017, leaving a single active tank and limited redundancy typical of a system this size.
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not identified in sources reviewed; not confirmed whether Holloway has a public sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.
Storm
Not published.
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
- 43985 · Holloway100% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 43977 · Flushing3% 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
Holloway Public Water System does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Holloway Public Water System.
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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: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
History: data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov