Water system
Quaker City
EPA ID OH3001011 · Guernsey County · 750 people served · owned by a local government
Quaker City buys its water from Barnesville.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Barnesville Reservoir #1, Barnesville Reservoir #2, Slope Creek Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- Barnesville Reservoir#1
Barnesville Reservoir#2
Barnesville Slope Creek - Serves
- 6,500 people · Belmont County
- EPA ID
- OH0700011
All three are village-owned impoundments; Slope Creek Reservoir dams Slope Creek (a South Fork Captina Creek tributary) and is filled by local drainage/unnamed tributaries, not a named river.
About this area's water Barnesville
Did you know
- Barnesville's three reservoirs hold an estimated 840 million usable gallons of raw water — what Ohio EPA calls 2.6 years of uninterrupted supply — while the village's finished-water tanks hold only about 1.2 days' worth.
- The village doesn't just serve itself: it wholesales water at $5.70 per 1,000 gallons to the Switzerland of Ohio Water District and the Village of Quaker City, satellite systems that push the population served to…
- Barnesville has sold bulk raw water straight out of Slope Creek Reservoir for hydraulic fracturing when water levels allow; Ohio EPA describes it as a continuing source of village revenue that doesn't count against…
- The two reservoirs nearest town bloom with algae while the distant one doesn't, so the village budgeted $5.58 million to rebuild a five-mile main and pump station and pump the good water instead — the old…
- In December 2025 the village had to send a special public notice after missing the federal deadline to tell residents whether their water arrives through a lead, galvanized or unknown-material service line.
Source: barnesvilleohio.combarnesvilleohio.combarnesvilleohio.com
History6
- 1808Barnesville is laid out in November 1808 by first settler James Barnes; the village is incorporated in 1835.
- 1964The 93-acre Slope Creek Reservoir (Reservoir #3), about five miles south of the village, is created for flood control and water supply; it holds roughly 650 million usable gallons.
- 2007Reservoir #2 (13 acres, ~30 million usable gallons, on County Road 122) is added as a village water source.
- 2016The village adopts a Source Water Protection Plan covering Reservoirs #1 and #2 and Slope Creek Reservoir. (Ohio treats all surface water as highly susceptible to contamination as a matter of policy…
- 2021Ohio EPA issues a preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact (June 24, 2021) for the Barnesville 16-inch Raw Water Transmission Main, WSRLA loan FS390135-0010, with the 0% Harmful Algal Bloom…
- 2025The village misses the July 1, 2025 federal deadline to deliver annual notifications to consumers with lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or unknown-status service lines. It reported the…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgbarnesvilleohio.combarnesvilleohio.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Surface water from Reservoir #1 (Township Road 25), Reservoir #2 (County Road 122) and Slope Creek Reservoir (Somerset Township) is dosed with potassium permanganate, polymers and chlorine to promote coagulation and contaminant removal ahead of filtration; activated carbon gives the filtered water…
Source: barnesvilleohio.combarnesvilleohio.com
Water pressure
No distribution pressures or pressure zones are published. Ohio EPA records that Reservoirs #1 and #2 send water to the plant by gravity, while Slope Creek Reservoir water is…
Source: barnesvilleohio.com
What it costs
$6.65 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $38 a month for water.
Inside-village schedule, Barnesville Water Department Rates and Fees effective May 9, 2022 (identical figures also appear on tables headed 'effective with July 2021 bills'): $9.00…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride Range 0.70-1.13; no violation. Water additive plus erosion of natural deposits. | 0.98 ppm | 4 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range <0.10-0.79; no violation. Fertilizer runoff, septic leaching. | 0.79 ppm | 10 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Barium No violation. | 0.018 ppm | 2 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level. | 4.99 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level. | 0.037 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2025 |
| Turbidity Range 0.04-0.39; lowest monthly compliance was 97.7% of samples meeting the standard. No violation. | 0.39 (max) NTU | TT: 0.3 NTU in… | 2025 |
| Chlorine Range 0.7-1.1. Disinfectant residual. | 0.89 (max) ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| TTHM (total trihalomethanes) Range 56.0-69.3; chlorination byproduct, no violation. | 69.3 ppb | 80 (MCL) | 2025 |
| HAA5 (haloacetic acids) Range 18.3-26.9; chlorination byproduct, no violation. | 26.9 ppb | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nickel (unregulated) Unregulated contaminant monitoring; no MCL. | 6.48 ppb | none established | 2025 |
Source: barnesvilleohio.com
EPA compliance record · Quaker City
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Barnesville (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 5 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).
Projects & plans4
Recent and current work
- Barnesville 16-inch Raw Water Transmission Main and pump station replacement · $5.6 million · 2021-2023
Replaces 25,000 linear feet of 12-inch asbestos-cement raw water main with 16-inch PVC on a new alignment mostly along roads, plus a new prefabricated pump… - Service line inventory · 2025 · completed
Inventory of service line materials maintained under the federal Lead and Copper Rule; the CCR directs residents to view it at the Barnesville Water Office…
Source: barnesvilleohio.combarnesvilleohio.com
Planned or needed
- Lead / galvanized / unknown service line notification correction · 2025 · completed
After failing to certify delivery of the July 1, 2025 annual notifications, the village provided the required notices to affected consumers on December 15… - Possible extension to Fairview and Hendrysburg · proposed
Ohio EPA's 2021 assessment notes these two unincorporated communities may connect to the Barnesville system when construction becomes affordable, adding…
Supply stress
All three sources are village-owned surface impoundments. Ohio treats every surface water source as highly susceptible to contamination; the CCR lists agricultural runoff, oil and gas wells, and road crossings as the potential contaminant sources in the protection areas. The real operating pressure is algae: Reservoirs #1 and #2…
Sewers
Sanitary
The Village of Barnesville Water & Sewer Department runs the sanitary sewer and bills it alongside water: $14.25 minimum for 0-1,000 gal, $28.50 at 2,000, then $10.90 per 1,000 above 2,000 up to 40,000 and $10.50 above that; a 5,000-gallon month is $61.20. Sewer taps are $500 inside or outside the corporation. Ohio EPA's 2021 assessment…
Storm
not published
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43773 · Beaver Township and Quaker City12% 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
Quaker City buys its water from Barnesville.
No other system is on record buying water from Quaker City.
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