Water system
Aqua Ohio - Mohawk
EPA ID OH1000812 · Carroll County · 2,376 people served
Aqua Ohio - Mohawk treats its own water from Groundwater wells (8 wells).
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Aqua Ohio - Mohawk as buying its water from Malvern Village; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Malvern Village as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Active wells
- 8
- Serves
- 2,376 people · Carroll County
- EPA ID
- OH1000812
About this area's water
Did you know
- Malvern's ZIP code (44644) is shared by Lake Mohawk, reportedly one of Ohio's larger privately owned man-made lakes.
- Malvern was home to some of the first paving bricks made in Ohio: in 1893, the Malvern Clay Company and the Canton &
- Lake Mohawk was created in 1963 by damming Middle Run, a tributary of Sandy Creek, for a planned gated community rather than as a public water-supply reservoir.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
History4
- 1834Settlement platted by Rev. William Hardesty as the village of Troy.
- 1840Renamed Malvern.
- 1869Incorporated as a village on May 31, 1869.
- 1963Lake Mohawk community and reservoir established by American Realty Service Corporation on 1,728 acres, damming Middle Run (a tributary of Sandy Creek) to form a 507-acre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The system reportedly draws from eight groundwater wells split between two wellhouses (Plants 1 and 2) around Lake Mohawk, blended into one distribution system.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 6.8 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
Lake Mohawk itself (0.79 sq mi / 507 acres, max depth 23 ft, fed by Middle Run) is a private recreational impoundment, not the water system's actual source -- the Mohawk PWS draws from separate groundwater wells near the lake.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44644 · Brown Township and Malvern33% 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
Aqua Ohio - Mohawk does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Aqua Ohio - Mohawk.
What the records show about Aqua Ohio - Mohawk
Who runs it
EPA's record says Aqua Ohio - Mohawk has 978 service connections and serves 2,376 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 330-832-5764.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Aqua Ohio - Mohawk: aeration, chlorine disinfection, and iron and manganese removal.
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 Aqua Ohio - Mohawk since 2015.
EPA logs 1 violation of any kind 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).
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 November 2026).
Lead and copper at the tap
In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Aqua Ohio - Mohawk was 6.8 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 11 ppb, in the period ending December 2019.
EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Aqua Ohio - Mohawk since 2016, the first ending in 2017; 1 of the 9 periods went above 10 ppb.
Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Aqua Ohio - Mohawk sent EPA, 1,013 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 1,013 |
| All lines | 1,013 |
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
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 2 plants of Aqua Ohio - Mohawk (latest sample July 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 2 plants of Aqua Ohio - Mohawk as sampled, most recently May 2025.
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 Aqua Ohio - Mohawk's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 11.6 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 28 µg/L and the highest single sample was 45.9 µg/L, from 14 samples taken from 2013 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 0 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 3.6 µg/L and the highest single sample was 5.8 µg/L, from 14 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 11.6 µg/L (2019) | 28 µg/L | 45.9 µg/L | 14 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 0 µg/L | 3.6 µg/L | 5.8 µg/L | 14 |
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
Nitrate: the highest of 18 samples was 0.65 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2018; in 2019, the last year sampled, the highest was 0.62 mg/L. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 4 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 18 | 0.65 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 4 | 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.
Solvents and fuels
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 4 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | 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.
Farm chemicals and metals
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 4 of 4 samples, highest 210 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine, alachlor, chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, and thallium, in 4 samples each.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 4 | 4 of 4 | 210 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 4 | 0 of 4 | 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.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 290 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Aqua Ohio - Mohawk tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 36 did.
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 Aqua Ohio - Mohawk buys its water from Malvern Village, a system that has fluoride from natural sources, but at a level below what is recommended for preventing tooth decay, and does not adjust it. The level it reports is 0.25 mg/L.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Aqua Ohio - Mohawk.
Measured fluoride: 0.24 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2017 (too little to protect teeth); samples ran at 0.24 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
The service area drawn on the map for Aqua Ohio - Mohawk comes from the utility's own map.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 1,459 residents are inside the boundary, 61% of the 2,376 people Aqua Ohio - Mohawk reports serving.
The resident count is an estimate from 2020 Census ZIP-code populations, not a count of customers.
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 — 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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH1000812 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
Rates: occ.ohio.gov
Supply stress: en.wikipedia.org