Licking Regional Water District

• The aquifer LRWD pumps from sits less than 10 feet below the ground surface with no protective clay layer above it, which is why Ohio EPA rates it highly susceptible to contamination.
• LRWD softens its water with nano-filtration membranes, a step more often associated with bottled-water plants than with small municipal systems.
• The district kept the name Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District for 35 years, until a Licking County judge approved the rename on November 7, 2024.
• The district's new test wells in St. Albans Township target the same Raccoon Creek Valley aquifer that already supplies Granville and Alexandria, which is why those villages have fought the expansion.
• LRWD holds three emergency interconnections (Fairfield County Utilities, Jefferson Water and Sewer District and the City of Pataskala) but reported drawing no water through any of them in the reported year.

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• 1989District established as the Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District to address environmental problems in Etna, Harrison and Lima townships (Lima Township is now part of the City of…
• 2001 and…Phase 1A and Phase 1B expansions of the Gale Road Environmental Control Facility completed, adding pumping, screening, aeration and solids-processing capacity.
• 2010District enters the State Route 161 corridor agreement with the Licking County Commissioners covering water and sewer service in the growth corridor.
• 2022Commissioners amend the 2010 SR 161 agreement, expanding the district's service area from 8,769 to 18,223 acres (11,702 acres in Jersey Township, 3,439 in St. Albans, 3,041 in Monroe). Officials from…
• 2024Licking County Court of Common Pleas approves the renaming to Licking Regional Water District on November 7 and expands the Board of Trustees with a Jersey Township representative and an at-large…
• 2026District solicits drilling bids and begins test wells on Reeves family farmland northwest of Alexandria in St. Albans Township, seeking new utility-scale groundwater in the Raccoon Creek Valley…

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How it is treated

One treatment plant at 8675 York Road, Pataskala, serving Etna Township, Harrison Township and parts of Pataskala, rated at 3 million gallons per day and delivering about 1.4 MGD to roughly 6,700 water customers. Groundwater comes from six wells located adjacent to the plant. Chlorine is added to…

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Water pressure

No psi figure or pressure-zone map is published. The district states that two 1,000,000-gallon elevated tanks and one 400,000-gallon tank, plus a booster station, provide system…

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$6.57 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $35 a month for water.

Effective March 1, 2026 (a 6.5% increase on water and sewer): water minimum $22.29/month covering 0-2,000 gallons; $6.57 per 1,000 gallons for 2,001-40,000 gallons; $8.59 per…

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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.

Recent and current work

• SR 161 corridor water and sewer extension · 2010 · completed
  Agreement with Licking County commissioners letting the district extend water and sewer along the State Route 161 growth corridor; amended and greatly enlarged…
• Gale Road Environmental Control Facility, Phases 1A and 1B · 2001 and… · completed
  Wastewater plant expansions adding pumping capacity, screening, aeration and solids processing. No cost published.
• Lead service line inventory · 2024 · completed
  Federally required inventory submitted by October 2024; the district reports no lead, no galvanized-requiring-replacement, and no unknown-material service…

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Planned or needed

• New groundwater wells, St. Albans Township · 2026 · under construction
  Test wells being drilled on farmland northwest of Alexandria after a preliminary site investigation; engineers will run continuous high-volume pump tests to…
• St. Albans Township water treatment facility · 2026 · proposed
  District has plans for a water treatment facility in St. Albans Township, south of Alexandria and west of Granville. No cost or design capacity published.
• Raccoon Creek Wastewater Treatment Center · 2026 · planned
  Wastewater (not drinking water) plant west of Granville. The district states an Ohio EPA permit has already cleared the way for its construction, and that the…
• Pet Run Wastewater Treatment Plant · 2026 · proposed
  Smaller wastewater plant in St. Albans Township near Alexandria, described by the district as proposed rather than under construction. The Ohio Environmental…

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Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the district's aquifer as HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE to contamination, on three grounds stated in the 2025 CCR: no protective clay layer over the aquifer, a shallow water table less than 10 feet below ground surface, and significant potential contaminant sources inside the protection area. On the supply…

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Sanitary

LRWD is also the sanitary sewer utility for its service area. It operates the Gale Road Environmental Control Facility at 8720 Gale Road, permitted at 4.3 million gallons per day, discharging to the South Fork of the Licking River. The collection system runs more than 160 miles of sanitary sewer with 43 pump stations; the plant uses an…

Storm

Not published. The district's materials describe a sanitary (not combined) collection system; no stormwater utility or fee was found for LRWD.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.