Gallia Co. Rural Water Association

• One rural water association covers roughly 500 square miles and 19 townships across five counties -- Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Lawrence and Vinton -- with about 700 miles of pipe and 10,200 taps serving an estimated…
• Its 37 tanks hold more than 7.7 million gallons between them -- over four days of the system's average daily production of 1.873 million gallons.
• During the 2023 East Palestine derailment scare the utility had to publicly reassure customers that its 10 wells draw from a buried aquifer, not the Ohio River flowing past Gallipolis.
• The 2025 water quality report shows PFOA at 7.52 ng/L, nearly double the 4.0 ng/L federal limit that takes effect in 2031 -- though under current rules the system recorded no violation or action-level exceedance for the…
• The 'high susceptibility' rating on Well Field #1 traces to a real event: volatile organic chemicals were found in the raw water there in the early 1990s.

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• early 1990sOhio EPA's source water assessment records that ground water contamination by volatile organic chemicals was detected in the raw water at Gallia Rural Water's #1 Well Field -- the basis for that…
• February…After the East Palestine train derailment, the Gallia County Health Department published statements from local water providers; GCRWA told concerned customers its 10 wells draw groundwater from the…
• May 2, 2025GCRWA completed its remaining PFAS sampling event under the 2024 federal PFAS drinking water rule, analyzing for the six regulated PFAS. All results were non-detect except PFOA at 7.52 ng/L.
• May 29, 2025The Ohio Water Development Authority board approved a Drinking Water Assistance Loan Fund agreement with the Gallia County Rural Water Association for $4,454,012.80.
• 2025GCRWA participated in the fifth round of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5), which detected PFOA (7.52 ng/L, range 4-7.52) and lithium (9.65 ug/L). The association held an…

Source: galliah2o.comgalliacohealth.govowda.org

How it is treated

Groundwater from 10 wells in Gallipolis and Addison Townships, drawing on the Ohio River Valley Aquifer, is treated at an Ohio EPA Class II water treatment plant that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The CCR does not itemize the process train, but chlorine and fluoride are both…

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Water pressure

Not published. No CCR, engineering report or pressure-zone map giving a psi figure was found.

$9.70 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $46 a month for water.

Declining-block schedule published by the association. On a 5/8-inch meter the minimum bill is $27.00, covering the first 2,000 gallons ($13.50 per 1,000). Above that: $9.70 per…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.8 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

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

Planned or needed

• OWDA Drinking Water Assistance Loan Fund improvements · $4.5 million · 2025 · planned
  Loan agreement approved by OWDA board resolution dated 05-29-2025. The resolution index names only the borrower and amount; the project scope is not itemized…

Source: owda.org

Ohio EPA rates the aquifer supplying Well Field #1 as HIGH susceptibility to contamination, on the strength of a documented ground water contamination by volatile organic chemicals in the raw water in the early 1990s. Well Field #2 is rated MODERATE, because of the aquifer's sensitivity and several potential contaminant sources inside…

Source: galliah2o.comgalliacohealth.gov

Sanitary

Gallia County Rural Water Association is a drinking-water-only association; it operates no sanitary sewer system, and the Ohio EPA 2022 Sewer and Water Rate Survey lists no sewer usage or sewer bill for it. Sanitary service in its five-county area is provided, where it exists at all, by separate municipal systems such as the City of…

Storm

No stormwater utility or drainage program is associated with GCRWA, and none was found in the sources reviewed.

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