Water system
Hopedale Village
EPA ID OH3400811 · Harrison County · 984 people served · owned by a local government
Hopedale Village buys its water from Jefferson Co. W and S District - M.
The system's record
Also connected to Cadiz Village (Tappan Lake), used as a secondary or emergency supply.
- Water bodies
- Ohio River
- Raw intakes
- Ohio River
- Serves
- 5,676 people · Jefferson County
- EPA ID
- OH4102811
Toronto's downstream_population (24,907) exceeds its own population, indicating it also sells water wholesale to nearby systems.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Hopedale's entire water supply passes through two purchasing intermediaries before reaching the village: it buys from Jefferson County Water & Sewer District, which itself buys from the City of Toronto's Ohio River…
- Toronto's Ohio River source tested positive for Cryptosporidium in 2 of 9 raw-water samples in 2019, though none was detected in the finished water reaching Hopedale, per the 2025 CCR.
- Hopedale's own 2025 CCR discloses it missed CCR delivery deadlines in 2017 and 2021, missed an October 2024 lead-service-line-inventory deadline, and went without disinfection-byproduct monitoring for the first half of…
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History5
- 1849Village platted (confirmed via Wikipedia).
- 1850Post office established (confirmed via Wikipedia).
- 1860Village of Hopedale formally incorporated, April 1 (confirmed via Wikipedia).
- 2024-2025Village began construction (summer 2024, ~16-month schedule) of a replacement 300,000-gallon concrete water storage tank and new booster pump station, funded via a $2,600,080 Ohio Dept. of…
- 2026Per its own 2025 CCR, Hopedale Village PWS did not monitor for disinfection byproducts (DBPs) during Q1-Q2 2026 and was cited for that reporting failure; the same CCR discloses the village previously…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgstorage.googleapis.comstorage.googleapis.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Hopedale buys 100% of its finished water. Its sole supplier, per the 2025 CCR and the May 2024 Ohio EPA environmental review, is Jefferson County Water & Sewer District, which itself buys from the City of Toronto's Ohio River treatment plant (filtration and chlorine disinfection). Neither primary…
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Water pressure
No psi figure is published, but the May 2024 Ohio EPA Limited Environmental Review directly substantiates a chronic pressure/capacity problem: it states Hopedale's existing…
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What it costs
Typical household bill about $46 a month for water.
No per-1,000-gallon volumetric rate was located. The May 2024 Ohio EPA environmental review states that under 2024 rates, a residential customer using 4,000 gal/month pays an…
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Water quality & impurities8
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 70.50-76.7; no violation. From the Hopedale-specific contaminant table in the 2025 CCR — supersedes the prior… | 76.7 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 28.9-31.4; no violation. From the 2025 CCR — supersedes the prior draft's outdated 14.3 ppb figure. | 31.4 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total Chlorine (residual) Range 0.4-1.2; no violation. From the 2025 CCR. | 0.84667 ppm | 4 MRDL | 2025 |
| Lead 0 of 10 samples exceeded the lead action level. From the 2025 CCR. | ND (<1.0) ppb | 15 AL | 2024 |
| Copper 0 of 10 samples exceeded the copper action level. From the 2025 CCR. | 0.0238 ppm | 1.3 AL | 2024 |
| Nitrate Well below MCL; no violation. From the 2025 CCR — supersedes the prior draft's outdated 1.31 ppm/2021 figure attributed… | 1.07 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| PFBS Detected at the system entry point during federal UCMR5 monitoring; no enforceable limit. From the 2025 CCR (not… | 0.0035 ppb | unregulated… | 2025 |
| PFPeA Detected at the system entry point during federal UCMR5 monitoring; no enforceable limit. From the 2025 CCR (not… | 0.0032 ppb | unregulated… | 2025 |
Source: storage.googleapis.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
8 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 7 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Toronto (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2018Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans1
Recent and current work
- 300,000-gallon water storage tank & booster pump station · $3.7 million · 2024-2025
Replaces existing 55,000-gal and 115,000-gal tanks and an undersized booster station. Per the May 2024 Ohio EPA Limited Environmental Review (loan…
Source: storage.googleapis.com
Supply stress
Hopedale has no water source of its own — it is entirely dependent on its single purchased supplier, Jefferson County Water & Sewer District, which is itself entirely dependent on the City of Toronto's Ohio River intake. Ohio EPA's source water assessment, quoted directly in Hopedale's own CCR, rates the Toronto/Ohio River source 'highly…
Sewers
Sanitary
Not confirmed in available sources — no wastewater treatment plant name, capacity, or receiving stream for Hopedale was found this session.
Storm
Not confirmed in available sources.
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
- 43976 · Hopedale57% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 43986 · Rumley Township and Jewett1% 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
Hopedale Village buys its water from Jefferson Co. W and S District - M, which buys from Toronto.
No other system is on record buying water from Hopedale Village.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 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
Hopedale Village's own pages: jcwatersewer.com, spectrumnews1.com
Notable facts: storage.googleapis.com
History: en.wikipedia.org, storage.googleapis.com, storage.googleapis.com
Water quality: storage.googleapis.com
Water pressure: storage.googleapis.com
Capital projects: storage.googleapis.com
Rates: storage.googleapis.com
Treatment: storage.googleapis.com, storage.googleapis.com
Supply stress: storage.googleapis.com, spectrumnews1.com