Water system
Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County
EPA ID OH4400803 · Lawrence County · 8,130 people served
Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County buys its water from West Virginia American Water - Huntington.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Ohio River, Guyandotte River (emergency backup)
- Raw intakes
- Ohio River
- Serves
- 98,647 people · West Virginia
- EPA ID
- WV3300608
WV American Water's Huntington system draws from the Ohio River; a secondary Guyandotte River intake was built and used temporarily in Feb 2023 during the East Palestine, OH train-derailment chemical plume, but the Ohio River remains the normal/primary source.
About this area's water
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.082 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 0 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Present in 2 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 2 more ZIP codes
- 45619 · Union Township and Chesapeake41% of residents
- 45680 · Fayette Township and South Point23% 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
Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County buys its water from West Virginia American Water - Huntington.
No other system is on record buying water from Aqua Ohio - Lawrence County.
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