Water system
Pataskala City
EPA ID OH4502512 · Licking County · 9,900 people served · owned by a local government
Pataskala City treats its own water from South Fork Licking River Buried Valley Aquifer.
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Pataskala City as buying its water from Licking Regional Water District; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Licking Regional Water District as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Aquifer
- South Fork Licking River Buried Valley Aquifer
- Active wells
- 6
- Serves
- 9,900 people · Licking County
- EPA ID
- OH4502512
Six groundwater wells draw from the South Fork Licking River buried-valley aquifer.
About this area's water
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.6 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
No ZIP code has Pataskala City on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 43062 · Pataskala17% 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
Pataskala City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Pataskala City.
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
Pataskala City's own pages: waterzen.com