Water system
Canal Pointe Industrial Park
EPA ID OH2346603 · Fairfield County · 1,721 people served · owned by a local government
Canal Pointe Industrial Park buys its water from Pickerington City.
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 Pickerington City
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 · Canal Pointe Industrial Park
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
EPA compliance record · Pickerington City (treats the water)
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.
Present in 0 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Canal Pointe Industrial Park on record as its main water supplier.
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
Canal Pointe Industrial Park buys its water from Pickerington City.
No other system is on record buying water from Canal Pointe Industrial Park.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 0 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