Water system
Village of Bloomingburg
EPA ID OH2400012 · Fayette County · 878 people served · owned by a local government
Village of Bloomingburg treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 878 people · Fayette County
- EPA ID
- OH2400012
About this area's water
Did you know
- Bloomingburg's own water plant uses old-school 'slat-tray aeration' -- cascading water over open slat trays to let iron and gases escape before filtration -- still used at this small Ohio system per EPA SDWIS treatment…
- The village was a documented Underground Railroad stop in the 19th century, long before it had any piped water system.
- Unlike wholesale-customer systems, Bloomingburg is fully self-supplied: it draws, treats (its own plant), and distributes groundwater from 3 of its own wells with no purchased backup.
Source: data.epa.goven.wikipedia.org
History4
- 1815Village laid out; local tradition holds it was named for the abundant flower gardens kept by residents (per Wikipedia).
- 1819Village post office established.
- 19th centuryCommunity served as a documented Underground Railroad stop, per Wikipedia.
- presentVillage operates its own groundwater treatment plant drawing on 3 active wells (Well 1, 2, 3), confirmed via EPA SDWIS facility and treatment records.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Bloomingburg treats its own groundwater from 3 active village wells (confirmed via SDWIS WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY) using spray aeration and slat-tray aeration (to strip dissolved gases/iron), a reaction/detention step, rapid sand filtration, and pre-chlorination via hypochlorination for disinfection…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
No published service-pressure (psi) figure found in EPA records, a CCR, or elsewhere in this pass. Village sits at approximately 994 ft elevation (confirmed via Wikipedia) and is…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
What it costs
No current residential water rate schedule was found published online for the Village of Bloomingburg in this pass; the village does not appear to maintain an accessible utility…
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile, Lead and Copper… Most recent monitoring round (Jan 1-Dec 31, 2025) per EPA SDWIS LCR_SAMPLE/LCR_SAMPLE_RESULT tables; well below the EPA… | 0.0017 mg/L | 0.015 | 2025 |
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 ppb in 2025 (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
No health-based violations on record. SDWIS shows only administrative/public-notification violations; one (code 71, contaminant 7000) opened July 1, 2025 remains open with no return-to-compliance date recorded as of this review (Sept. 2026) -- confirmed directly against the EPA VIOLATION table. Bloomingburg relies entirely on its own 3…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
No wastewater/sanitary sewer provider or treatment-plant details found; EPA SDWIS covers drinking water only and no other source located in this pass documents Bloomingburg's sewer system.
Storm
Not published; no source located.
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
- 43106 · Bloomingburg55% 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
Village of Bloomingburg does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Village of Bloomingburg.
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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: data.epa.gov, en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Water quality: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Water pressure: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov