Water system
Powhatan Point Public Water System
EPA ID OH0701412 · Belmont County · 1,592 people served
Powhatan Point Public Water System treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 1,592 people · Belmont County
- EPA ID
- OH0701412
About this area's water
Did you know
- The name honors the Powhatan Native American tribe, with 'Point' referring to the confluence of Captina Creek and the Ohio River where the village sits.
- The village was first surveyed/laid out in 1849 by Franklin Knox.
- The village's population peaked in 1930 at 2,329 during the coal-mining era — nearly 60% above its 2020 population of 1,461.
- Many residents commute across the Ohio River to Moundsville and Wheeling, West Virginia, for work; the village is considered part of the Wheeling metro area.
Source: en.wikipedia.orghmdb.org
History4
- 1828A post office called Powhatan Point began operating.
- 1849The village was formally platted along the Ohio River at the confluence with Captina Creek, laid out by Franklin Knox.
- 1930Village population peaked at 2,329 residents (confirmed as the true historical peak across the full census table, exceeding even the 1980 figure of 2,181).
- 2020Census population was 1,461, down from 1,592 in 2010.
Source: en.wikipedia.orghmdb.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Village draws from three groundwater wells (two production wells plus a standby well, per system input). The 2024 CCR states the Village of Powhatan Point sampled for total coliform bacteria, lead, copper, nitrate, and synthetic organic chemicals (SOCs) in 2023; all bacteria samples were negative…
Source: ohioruralwater.org
Water pressure
Not published — no CCR, engineering report, or pressure-zone map with a pressure figure was located.
What it costs
No published water rate schedule or ordinance was located online; the village's rate/ordinance code is not published digitally.
Water quality & impurities2
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total coliform bacteria All samples negative, per 2024 CCR. | 0 positive… | n/a | 2023 |
| Lead, Copper, Nitrate, SOCs All below detectable levels, per 2024 CCR. | 0 detected | n/a | 2023 |
Source: ohioruralwater.org
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.8 ppb in 2024 (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).
Supply stress
The aquifer supplying Powhatan Point is officially rated 'highly susceptible to contamination' in the village's source water assessment, meaning conditions make contamination relatively likely under current conditions.
Source: ohioruralwater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Not verified from a primary source — no sewer system documentation for the village was located in this session.
Storm
Not verified from a primary source.
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
- 43942 · Powhatan Point76% 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
Powhatan Point Public Water System does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Powhatan Point Public Water System: York Township Water Authority.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code 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, hmdb.org
History: en.wikipedia.org, hmdb.org
Water quality: ohioruralwater.org
Treatment: ohioruralwater.org
Supply stress: ohioruralwater.org