Water system
New Athens
EPA ID OH3401103 · Harrison County · 367 people served · owned by a local government
New Athens buys its water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Alluvial aquifer along the Ohio River, north of Bellaire
- Water bodies
- Ohio River (via alluvial aquifer)
- Active wells
- 1
- Serves
- 26,822 people · Belmont County
- EPA ID
- OH0700412
Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 sources from a shallow, high-susceptibility well/aquifer north of Bellaire tied to the Ohio River valley.
About this area's water
Did you know
- New Athens was home to Franklin College, one of Ohio's early 19th-century institutions of higher learning, founded in 1818 by abolitionist John Walker and operating for over 100 years until it closed in 1919.
- EPA infrastructure records show the village's water system includes a 100,000-gallon storage tank.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
History4
- 1817/1818New Athens was platted in 1817; a post office has operated there since 1818. The village was home to Franklin College, founded in 1818 by abolitionist John Walker and operating for over 100 years…
- 2006-2007EPA facility records show New Athens operated its own water treatment plant (facility type TP) until it was deactivated between October 2006 and February 2007, after which the village began…
- 1995-2000New Athens logged three monitoring/reporting violations (compliance periods starting 1995, 1996, and 1999), all resolved by 2000, per EPA SDWIS.
- 2021-presentNew Athens has an open, unresolved Public Notification Rule ('Other', rule 420) violation dating to October 26, 2021, and a second, separate one dating to December 18, 2024 — neither shows a…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
New Athens buys finished groundwater from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 (PWSID OH0700412), a local-government-owned groundwater system serving roughly 26,800 people across the county, per EPA SDWIS. New Athens itself previously ran its own treatment plant, deactivated around 2006-2007 (see…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published anywhere found.
What it costs
No rate schedule, ordinance, or council minutes could be located for New Athens or for its wholesale supplier, Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3. The county government's own website…
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
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 · Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Supply stress
New Athens depends entirely on purchased water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3. EPA SDWIS records show New Athens' own system currently carries two open, unresolved 'Other'/Public Notification Rule violations (since Oct. 26, 2021 and Dec. 18, 2024), and its wholesale supplier separately carries its own open Public Notification Rule…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Not documented on any source located.
Storm
Not documented on any source located.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources. Little is published about this system, so details are thin.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43981 · New Athens63% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 43907 · Cadiz1% 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
New Athens buys its water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3.
No other system is on record buying water from New Athens.
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
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
History: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov