Water system
Ironton
EPA ID OH4400711 · Lawrence County · 11,129 people served
Ironton treats its own water from Ohio River.
The system's record
Also purchases some water from Hecla Water Association (Ohio River).
- Water bodies
- Ohio River
- Raw intakes
- Ironton Ohio River
- Serves
- 11,129 people · Lawrence County
- EPA ID
- OH4400711
Own intake draws from the Ohio River; matches SDWIS SW hypothesis. Ironton also has a small interconnection with Hecla Water Association (mutual backup ties), but treats its own Ohio River water as primary source.
About this area's water
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
13 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 12 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
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 1 ZIP code
- 45638 · Ironton60% 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
Ironton does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Ironton: Hecla Water Association.
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
Ironton's own pages: irontonohio.org
Notable facts: gemgrp.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov, en.wikipedia.org
History: gemgrp.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov, yahoo.com, wsaz.com
Water quality: gemgrp.com
Planned work: wsaz.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov
Water pressure: irontonohio.org, gemgrp.com
Capital projects: dam.assets.ohio.gov, content.govdelivery.com, content.govdelivery.com
Rates: yahoo.com, irontontribune.com, codelibrary.amlegal.com
Sewers: dam.assets.ohio.gov, yahoo.com
Treatment: gemgrp.com
Supply stress: gemgrp.com, wwwapp.epa.ohio.gov