Coshocton

• Coshocton bills water by the 1,000 cubic feet rather than the 1,000 gallons, and its 2022 rate ordinance locked in a raise every June from 2022 through 2029 — so a resident can look up what their 2029 bill will be today.
• The water plant runs a 24/7 self-serve bulk station at a penny a gallon, with volume breaks down to $0.006 a gallon for anyone hauling more than 2 million gallons a month.
• The city's stormwater fee is a quarter a month for a house and a dollar for a business.
• The wells sit in a buried sand-and-gravel valley where Mill Creek meets the Walhonding, just upstream of the point in town where the Walhonding and Tuscarawas join to form the Muskingum.
• A 2020 statewide PFAS survey and the 2024 UCMR 5 round both came back non-detect for Coshocton's finished water.

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• 2008Water treatment plant expansion completed; on Ohio EPA criteria the plant is rated to deliver up to 15 million gallons per day.
• 2008Wastewater treatment plant renovated: all three trickling filters rebuilt and a new high-strength BOD removal system installed.
• 2020System sampled under Ohio's statewide drinking water PFAS Sampling Initiative; six PFAS compounds tested, none detected in finished water.
• 2021Waterline expansion carried city water out to West Lafayette, the template later cited for the Warsaw extension.
• 2022Revised Ordinance 12-22 set an eight-year schedule of annual water and sewer rate increases from the June 2022 billing through June 2029, along with trash, stormwater, tap, bulk water and…
• 2024System participated in the fifth round of the federal Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5); all samples came back non-detect.

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How it is treated

Water comes from a well field just off State Route 83 N near the junction of Mill Creek and the Walhonding River, in a submersed valley geology tapping a large saturated sand-and-gravel aquifer. At the plant the water goes through lime softening, stabilization by recarbonation, filtration…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor the utilities department page gives a distribution pressure figure.

$8.77 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $59 a month for water.

Coshocton bills by the 1,000 CUBIC FEET, not the 1,000 gallons; 1,000 CF = 7,480 gallons. Inside city limits for the June 2026 billing (Revised Ordinance 12-22): $29.78 minimum…

Source: cityofcoshocton.com

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Water treatment plant expansion · 2008 · completed
  Left the plant rated to deliver up to 15 MGD on Ohio EPA criteria. No cost is published in the sources reviewed.
• Wastewater treatment plant trickling-filter renovation · 2008 · completed
  All three trickling filters rebuilt and a high-strength BOD removal system added. No cost is published in the sources reviewed.
• West Lafayette waterline expansion · 2021 · completed
  Extended city water service out to West Lafayette; cited in 2024 as the model for the Warsaw project. No cost is published in the sources reviewed.
• Lead service line inventory · 2025 · completed
  Citywide inventory of service line materials required under the Lead and Copper Rule, dated 5/20/2025 and linked from the city's water quality report.
• Wastewater plant digester improvements · $11 million · 2024 · planned
  Water Pollution Control Loan Fund agreement, first reading May 2024, repaid through sewer usage charges. The two primary digesters and one secondary digester…
• Well field equipment and power supply upgrade · $1.1 million · 2024 · planned
  Revised estimate of $1.1 million to replace well field equipment and systems dating to the 1960s, including an electrical refeed by American Electric Power…

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Planned or needed

• Coshocton-to-Warsaw waterline extension · $5 million · 2024 · planned
  About 44,000 linear feet of waterline along U.S. Route 36 from Coshocton to the Village of Warsaw, plus a new water storage tank and replacement of all service…

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Ohio EPA's drinking water source assessment classifies Coshocton as a High Susceptibility PWS based on high sensitivity: the aquifer is sensitive in nature and potential contaminant sources have been identified nearby. The city stresses this does not mean the well field will be contaminated, only that conditions allow it. There is no…

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Sanitary

City-operated wastewater treatment plant at 2742 County Road 271, a trickling-filter facility with 4.4 MGD total capacity and about 2.7 MGD still available; all three filters were rebuilt and a high-strength BOD removal system added in 2008. An $11.25 million digester improvement project financed through Ohio EPA's Water Pollution…

Storm

The city bills a stormwater charge under Revised Ordinance 12-22 of $0.25 per month per residential unit and $1.00 per commercial unit — among the smallest published stormwater fees in Ohio and, unlike water and sewer, not on an escalation schedule. Whether…

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.