Water system
Wintersville Village
EPA ID OH4103003 · Jefferson County · 3,924 people served · owned by a local government
Wintersville Village buys its water from Jefferson Co. W and S District - M.
The system's record
- 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
- Wintersville's tap water changes hands twice before it arrives: the City of Toronto pulls and treats it from the Ohio River at mile marker 59.2, sells it to the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District, and the…
- The village treats nothing at all. Because it is purely a distribution system, Ohio EPA does not require it to run a plant; the water division's job is sampling, storage and pipes.
- The entire village is served from a single 250,000-gallon elevated tank, roughly two days of storage for about 1,900 customers.
- Wintersville reports zero lead, zero galvanized-requiring-replacement and zero unknown-material service lines, a rare clean sweep, established by eyeballing every service during the 2023 meter replacement.
- In 2025 the village tested for 29 different PFAS compounds plus lithium under UCMR5 and found none of them.
History3
- 2004EPA SDWIS records the village's purchased connection from the City of Steubenville deactivated December 16, 2004, leaving the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District as the sole active supplier.
- 2023The village completed a water meter replacement project; every service line was visually inspected on both the public and private side during the work, which is how the village established its…
- 2025All of the village's water was purchased from the Jefferson County Water District, which itself buys from the City of Toronto's Ohio River plant at mile marker 59.2.
Source: wintersvilleoh.usdata.epa.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Wintersville does not treat water. It is a distribution-only system: the village purchases its entire finished-water supply from the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District (PWSID OH4101103), which in turn purchases from the City of Toronto Water Department, whose intake is on the Ohio River at…
Source: wintersvilleoh.uswintersvilleoh.usdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the CCR nor the village services page states a system pressure; the only storage figure published is the 250,000-gallon elevated tank.
What it costs
Not published online. The village website has no rate schedule, no utility-rate page and no ordinance PDFs; its ordinances are hosted on American Legal's code library, which is…
Water quality & impurities7
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total chlorine Residual from the supplier's chlorination; Wintersville adds no treatment. | 0.965 (range… mg/L | MRDL 4 | 2025 |
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) The top of the detection range, 79.8 ppb, is within 0.2 ppb of the MCL. Long detention time in a purchased-water… | 50.58 (range… ppb | MCL 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) The running average is about 92 percent of the MCL and the high sample, 59.6 ppb, is just under it. This is the most… | 55.13 (range… ppb | MCL 60 | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 20 samples above the action level. The village reports no lead, no galvanized-requiring-replacement and no unknown… | <1.00 (range… ug/L | Action level 15… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 20 samples above the action level. The CCR's units column is internally inconsistent here, heading the row 'COPPER… | 2.23 (range… ug/L | Action level… | 2025 |
| PFAS and lithium Under UCMR5 the system tested for 29 PFAS constituents plus lithium; none were detected in finished water, so no table… | Not detected n/a | n/a | 2025 |
| TTHM and HAA5 monitoring (SDWIS record) EPA SDWIS carries major routine monitoring violations for TTHM (contaminant 2950) and HAA5 (2456) for the compliance… | Two routine… n/a | n/a | 2025 |
Source: wintersvilleoh.usdata.epa.gov
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.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 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
- Water meter replacement project, including visual inspection of every service line for the lead service line… · 2023 · completed
Source: wintersvilleoh.us
Supply stress
No local source and no local scarcity risk: the village buys all of its water and holds only 250,000 gallons of elevated storage, so its exposure is entirely to its two upstream suppliers. Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the Toronto Ohio River intake as highly susceptible to contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater…
Sewers
Sanitary
The village runs its own sanitary sewer. The Utilities Department has a sewer division of three employees whose lead operator holds a Class III Wastewater Works license, and EPA's facility registry lists the Wintersville A WWTP at 160 Marshall Rd Rear under NPDES permit OH0022144, currently administratively continued. Ohio EPA records…
Storm
The Wintersville Public Works (Street) Department is responsible for storm sewer maintenance and operation, alongside road, park and tree maintenance. No separate stormwater fee or system detail is published.
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 2 ZIP codes
- 43953 · Cross Creek Township and Steubenville42% of residents
- 43944 · Salem Township and Richmond21% 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
Wintersville 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 Wintersville Village.
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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
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History: wintersvilleoh.us, data.epa.gov
Water quality: wintersvilleoh.us, data.epa.gov
Water pressure: wintersvilleoh.us, wintersvilleoh.us
Capital projects: wintersvilleoh.us
Rates: wintersvilleoh.us, wintersvilleoh.us
Sewers: wintersvilleoh.us, data.epa.gov, echodata.epa.gov
Treatment: wintersvilleoh.us, wintersvilleoh.us, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: wintersvilleoh.us, wintersvilleoh.us