Water system
Tiltonsville
EPA ID OH4102712 · Jefferson County · 1,372 people served · owned by a local government
Tiltonsville treats its own water from Groundwater wells (2 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 2
- Serves
- 1,372 people · Jefferson County
- EPA ID
- OH4102712
About this area's water
Did you know
- 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
History5
- 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
Treatment & pressure
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.
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
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).
Supply stress
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.
Sewers
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.
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
- 43963 · Tiltonsville100% 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
Tiltonsville does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
3 systems on record buy water from Tiltonsville: Jefferson Co.san.dist.-g, Rayland Village, Yorkville Village.
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