Rayland Village

• Tiltonsville sits on land purchased in 1796 by John Tilton, for whom the village is named.
• The village is home to Hodgen's Cemetery Mound, a burial mound built by the prehistoric Adena culture.
• Tiltonsville is referenced in poet James Wright's poem 'Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,' about the neighboring Ohio River town.
• Population peaked around 2,360 in 1940 and has declined by nearly half since, to about 1,259 in 2020 — typical of Ohio River valley steel-belt towns.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

• 1796John Tilton purchases roughly 900 acres at a federal land auction in Pittsburgh (Nov. 25, 1796, for $3,623.76) that would become the village.
• 1806Tilton lays out the village along the Ohio River in Jefferson County.
• 1852Post office opens as 'Tiltonville'.
• 1875Post office/village name changes to 'Tiltonsville'.
• unknownNo published date found for when the village's two-well municipal water system was constructed or last upgraded; the village's water-department website was unreachable during this review.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

How it is treated

Tiltonsville treats its own water drawing from 2 groundwater wells, consistent with a typical small Ohio groundwater system, but no CCR or plant description could be located this session (the village water-department site did not load).

Water pressure

Not published — no CCR or engineering document for OH4102712 was found.

EPA compliance record · Rayland Village

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb); copper 1.66 mg/L (action level 1.3).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

11 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 10 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Tiltonsville (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.5 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb); copper 2.09 mg/L (action level 1.3).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

4 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

No system-specific water-stress findings located. General regional context: Jefferson County Ohio River valley communities have historically faced groundwater contamination concerns tied to legacy steel/coal industry and river-adjacent aquifers, but nothing PWSID-specific was confirmed.

Sanitary

Not determined this session — no source located identifying Tiltonsville's wastewater treatment plant, capacity, receiving stream, or any consent decree.

Storm

Not determined this session; no flooding or stormwater information found, though the village's low-lying Ohio River location makes river flooding plausible.

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.