Water system
Murray City Village
EPA ID OH3700803 · Hocking County · 449 people served · owned by a local government
Murray City Village buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Hocking River buried valley aquifer (sand and gravel)
- Active wells
- 6
- Serves
- 1,994 people · Athens County
- EPA ID
- OH0501311
6 wells pump ~4 MGD from a sand-and-gravel aquifer within the Hocking River buried valley system; serves Athens/Hocking/Morgan/Perry county customers.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Murray City was platted in 1873 and named for landowner John Murray Brown, who built a hotel there in 1875; it was incorporated in 1891.
- At its early-20th-century peak (1920 census: 1,493 residents) it supported a hotel, saloons, churches, and a train depot as a coal-mining boomtown; major mine closures in 1937 triggered a steep decline, to 341 residents…
- Like nearby Trimble, Murray City buys its drinking water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than operating its own treatment plant.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History6
- 1873Murray City was platted.
- 1875John Murray Brown, the original landowner for whom the town is named, built a hotel in the area.
- 1891Murray City was incorporated as a village.
- 1920Population peaked (1920 census: 1,493) as a coal-mining boomtown supporting a hotel, saloons, churches, and a train depot.
- 1937Major coal-mine closures triggered a steep economic and population decline, to 341 residents by the 2020 census.
- 2019-2022Three 'Other' (SDWIS rule 420, public-notification/CCR-family) violations opened (Jan. 2019, Feb. 2020, Aug. 2022) and remain listed as open in federal SDWIS as of this review; a fourth, opened Oct.…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Murray City purchases finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own (confirmed: Ohio EPA SDWIS lists the village's primary source code as 'GWP' = purchased groundwater, consistent with the buried-valley aquifer sourcing given in the input). Federal…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published. Federal SDWIS's facility table is empty for this PWSID and no CCR was located.
Source: data.epa.gov
What it costs
No published rate schedule was found online for this ~449-person Hocking County village; it does not appear to maintain an independent municipal website.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.2 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 · Burr Oak Regional Water District (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 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).
Supply stress
Not established from public sources for Murray City's actual drinking-water supply (buried-valley aquifer purchased via Burr Oak Regional Water District). The village sits along Snow Fork, a tributary of Monday Creek -- a Hocking/Perry County watershed also historically affected by acid mine drainage from coal mining -- but this is a…
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Not determined from available public sources whether Murray City has a municipal sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.
Storm
Not determined from available public sources.
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
- 43144 · Murray City92% 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
Murray City Village buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Murray City Village.
Photograph
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
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org, data.epa.gov
Water pressure: data.epa.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: en.wikipedia.org