Byesville

Water system

EPA ID OH3001212 · Guernsey County · 5,104 people served · owned by a local government

local wells (mine-pool/groundwater under influence of surface water)

Groundwater

Byesville treats its own water from local wells (mine-pool/groundwater under influence of surface water).

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The system's record

local wells (mine-pool/groundwater under influence of surface water)

Groundwater

Wells: EPA lists 4 active wells. ODNR well logs locate 4 public-supply wells inside Byesville's wellhead protection zone, 43 to 240 ft deep, in sandstone and shale. Zoom in to see them as dots.

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Active wells: 4
Serves: 5,104 people · Guernsey County
EPA ID: OH3001212

Village of Byesville draws from wells associated with underground mine pools (treated at the Wetzler/Haynes microfiltration plant), consistent with its GU (groundwater under the influence of surface water) SDWIS code.

byesvilleoh.gov ewg.org

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Water quality & impurities

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.9 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb); copper 1.416 mg/L (action level 1.3).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

2024Surface Water Treatment Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2024Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2019Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.132 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
2018Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.128 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
2018Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.105 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
2017Ground Water Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

1 more problem in this period not listed. EPA's count of 16 includes 7 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

31 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 28 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Main supplier in 1 ZIP code

43723

Serves

Main water supplier in 2 ZIP codes

43723 · Jackson Township and Byesville93% of residents
43780 · Richland Township and Senecaville3% of residents

Also present in 1 more ZIP code

43725 · Cambridge3% 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

Byesville does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.

No other system is on record buying water from Byesville.

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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

Byesville's own pages: byesvilleoh.gov, ewg.org