Water system
Pickerington City
EPA ID OH2301512 · Fairfield County · 19,141 people served · owned by a local government
Pickerington City treats its own water from local buried-valley aquifer (wells near Diley Road).
The system's record
- Aquifer
- local wells (buried-valley aquifer, Diley Rd well field, Fairfield Co.)
- Active wells
- 5
- Serves
- 19,141 people · Fairfield County
- EPA ID
- OH2301512
Five wells at the water plant site west of Diley Road; CCR references an aquifer name that did not clearly resolve in available text extraction, kept as generic buried-valley/local wells designation. City also has emergency interconnects with Fairfield County Utilities, unused in normal operation.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Pickerington was laid out in 1815 under the name Jacksonville, honoring Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans; the townspeople petitioned in 1827 to rename it after the man who founded it, Abraham Pickering.
- Pickerington treats its well water with reverse osmosis — membrane treatment more associated with seawater than with central Ohio groundwater — and the salty reject stream is piped over to the sewage plant and blended…
- Water and sewer rates rise 3% automatically every April 1, so bills climb without a council vote.
- The four 'emergency' interconnects with Fairfield County Utilities are not decorative: in August 2025 the city pulled 512,000 gallons through one of them over four days.
Source: themunicipal.comdam.assets.ohio.govci.pickerington.oh.us
History6
- 1815Abraham Pickering has the town surveyed and laid out on September 15, 1815, naming it Jacksonville after Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans; by 1820 it had 49 residents.
- 1827Residents petition the Ohio legislature to rename the town Pickerington in Pickering's honor.
- 1881Pickerington incorporated as a village.
- 1988Pickerington's wastewater treatment plant constructed.
- 1991Pickerington certified as a city.
- 2009Wastewater treatment plant last upgraded.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Five wells at the water plant site west of Diley Road draw from the Newark River buried-valley aquifer. The city treats the water at a reverse-osmosis plant that came online in 2011: iron and manganese are removed by aeration, detention and filtration, hardness is reduced by membrane treatment, and…
Source: dam.assets.ohio.govci.pickerington.oh.uscityscenecolumbus.com
Water pressure
Not published. No CCR, city budget document or Ohio EPA record reviewed states a system psi figure or maps pressure zones.
What it costs
$5.07 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $25 a month for water.
City of Pickerington utility billing schedule (current as of 2026). Water: $4.50 monthly service charge plus $5.07 per 1,000 gallons through 12,000 gallons in a month, and $7.30…
Source: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Chlorine Range 0.90-1.23 ppm. | 1.11 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 10.4-11.2 ppb; about 14% of the standard. | 11.2 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 0-3.4 ppb. | 3.4 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.87-0.97 ppm. | 0.92 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate From the 2024 CCR; not re-reported in 2025. | 0.33 ppm | 10 | 2024 |
| Barium Reported in the 2024 CCR under reduced monitoring. | 0.027 ppm | 2 | 2023 |
| Gross alpha (excluding radon and… Reported in the 2024 CCR; radiologicals are on a reduced monitoring cycle. | 4.2 pCi/L | 15 | 2020 |
| Combined Radium 226/228 Reported in the 2024 CCR. | 1.1 pCi/L | 5 | 2020 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero of 30 samples above the action level; carried forward unchanged in the 2025 CCR. The city reports no lead… | 0.6 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero of 30 samples above the action level; carried forward in the 2025 CCR. | 0.327 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2024 |
Source: ci.pickerington.oh.usci.pickerington.oh.us
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.6 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).
Projects & plans6
Recent and current work
- Columbus interconnect · $150,000 · 2026 · planned
Construction funded in the adopted FY2026 budget, Water Department, Fund 509. Would add a City of Columbus connection alongside the four existing Fairfield… - Water Plant Capacity Plan / Improvement (Phase II design) · $600,000 · 2026 · planned
FY2026 budget line 509.503.55692; $900,000 was budgeted for the same line in 2025. Design only — no construction cost is published. - Sanitary sewer lining · $200,000 · 2026 · planned
Construction funded in the FY2026 budget, Sewer Department, Fund 511. - Tertiary disc filter replacement at the wastewater plant · $75,000 · 2026 · planned
Design funded in the FY2026 budget, Fund 511. Replaces the cloth-media disk filters in the plant's tertiary stage. - Sycamore Creek bank stabilization · $50,000 · 2026 · planned
Design/construction funded in the FY2026 budget, Stormwater Fund 513. Sycamore Creek is also the wastewater plant's receiving stream.
Source: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Planned or needed
- Water plant capacity expansion (construction phase following the 2025-2026 design work) · planned
Implied by two consecutive years of design funding ($900,000 in 2025, $600,000 for Phase II in 2026) under the 'Water Plant Capacity Plan/Improvement' line. No…
Source: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Supply stress
The city's CCRs rate the Newark River aquifer's susceptibility to contamination as moderate — the aquifer is sensitive and there are several potential contaminant sources inside the wellhead protection zone, which the Ohio EPA-approved Wellhead Protection Plan is meant to manage. The sharper pressure is capacity, not quality: the water…
Source: ci.pickerington.oh.usci.pickerington.oh.usci.pickerington.oh.us
Sewers
Sanitary
City-owned Pickerington WWTP at 525 Hill Road South, built in 1988 and last upgraded in 2009, with an average design flow of 3.2 MGD; recent annual median flows run about 2.5 MGD. It discharges to Sycamore Creek at river mile 4.5 (Great Miami-independent; Scioto basin, HUC 05060001-17-04). Treatment train: influent pumping, bar screen…
Storm
Ohio EPA states the City of Pickerington has 100% separate sewers — no combined sewers. The city runs its own storm water utility, billed at $4.50 a month for residential customers, with an Engineering Department storm water management program. The FY2026…
Source: dam.assets.ohio.govci.pickerington.oh.usci.pickerington.oh.us
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
- 43147 · Pickerington43% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 43110 · Columbus and Canal Winchester0% 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
Pickerington City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Pickerington City: Canal Pointe Industrial Park.
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
Pickerington City's own pages: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Notable facts: themunicipal.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov, ci.pickerington.oh.us, ci.pickerington.oh.us
History: themunicipal.com, en.wikipedia.org, dam.assets.ohio.gov, ci.pickerington.oh.us
Water quality: ci.pickerington.oh.us, ci.pickerington.oh.us
Planned work: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Capital projects: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Rates: ci.pickerington.oh.us
Sewers: dam.assets.ohio.gov, ci.pickerington.oh.us, ci.pickerington.oh.us
Treatment: dam.assets.ohio.gov, ci.pickerington.oh.us, cityscenecolumbus.com, wwdmag.com
Supply stress: ci.pickerington.oh.us, ci.pickerington.oh.us, ci.pickerington.oh.us