Water system
Middleport Village
EPA ID OH5300112 · Meigs County · 2,446 people served · owned by a local government
Middleport Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
The Ohio Department of Health's fluoridation report (CDC My Water's Fluoride) lists Middleport Village as buying its water from Pomeroy Village; EPA's inventory shows its own sources as primary with Pomeroy Village as an emergency connection. The two records may reflect a blend or a recent switch.
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 2,446 people · Meigs County
- EPA ID
- OH5300112
About this area's water
Did you know
- The name Middleport refers to the town's spot on the Ohio River roughly halfway between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; the site went by Sheffield, Coalport and Salisbury before that.
- The village keeps a standing back-up water connection to neighboring Pomeroy - and reported in its 2024 CCR that it never had to open it that year.
- Middleport's 2024 gross alpha result, 15.8 pCi/L, came in numerically above the 15 pCi/L MCL, yet the CCR's Violations column for that row reads 'No.'
- The village still runs combined sewers, so heavy rain sends untreated stormwater and sewage into the Ohio River - the problem a 2025 Appalachian Regional Commission grant on Third Street is meant to chip away at.
- Middleport publishes essentially nothing about what water costs: no rate ordinance, no schedule, just a link to a third-party payment portal.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgmiddleportohio.commiddleportohio.com
History5
- 1798Village history dates the original Leading Creek Settlement to 1798, settled by New Englanders and Revolutionary War veterans arriving by flatboat from Marietta, followed by German immigrants.
- 1820sThe village itself was laid out during the 1820s. It carried three earlier names - Sheffield, Coalport and Salisbury - and absorbed nearby settlements including Vinton and Tarker's Landing.
- 1920Population peaks at 3,772, then declines through the century to 2,530 in 2010 and 2,208 in 2020.
- 2024Village operated its three-well groundwater system (Wells #4, #7, #8, all in use) with no violations in any category of the CCR table and a current unconditional License to Operate.
- 2025Environmental assessment for the ARC-funded Third Street Sanitary Sewer Improvements signed Aug. 12, 2025 with a Finding of No Significant Impact; combined FONSI / notice of intent to request release…
Source: middleportohio.comen.wikipedia.orgmiddleportohio.com
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from three production wells (#4, #7 and #8) in the Ohio River Valley aquifer, all in service. The CCR reports a total chlorine running annual average of 1.066 ppm, confirming chlorination, and disinfection by-products are detected; the report does not otherwise describe the treatment…
Source: middleportohio.com
Water pressure
Not published. The 2024 CCR and the village website give no system pressure figures and no pressure-zone map.
What it costs
Not published. The village homepage, FAQ and water-quality pages carry no water or sewer rate schedule; customers are directed to the AuthorityPay portal…
Source: middleportohio.commiddleportohio.commiddleportohio.com
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate CCR shows range 0.7-4.49 ppm (as printed, the level found exceeds the stated range top). Runoff from fertilizer… | 4.69 ppm | 10 ppm MCL | 2024 |
| Barium Range 0.0515-0.0644. Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries. | 0.065 ppm | 2.0 ppm MCL | 2024 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 11.6-14.3 ppb. By-product of chlorination. | 14.3 ppb | 80 ppb MCL | 2024 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range <2.4-4.8 ppb. By-product of chlorination. | 4.8 ppb | 60 ppb MCL | 2024 |
| Total chlorine (running annual average) Range 1.09-2.19 ppm as printed in the CCR. | 1.066 ppm | MRDL 4 ppm | 2024 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero of 10 samples exceeded the action level. | 1.5 ppb | 15 ppb action… | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero of 10 samples exceeded the action level. | 0.151 ppm | 1.3 ppm action… | 2024 |
| Gross alpha / radon Confirmed verbatim in the CCR table: level found 15.8 pCi/L, range 15.8 pCi/L, MCL 15 pCi/L, Violations column 'No'.… | 15.8 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L MCL | 2024 |
| Radium 226-228 Erosion of natural deposits. | 3.62 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L MCL | 2024 |
| PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl… Sampled under Ohio's statewide PFAS Sampling Initiative; the CCR reports detection below the Ohio EPA action level with… | detected below… not stated | Ohio EPA action… | 2024 |
Source: middleportohio.com
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 · open
7 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 6 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Water system upgrades - Grant, Beech, Lincoln and South 5th Avenue · 2025
The only public record is an April 2025 service-interruption notice announcing a roughly four-hour shutoff on those streets 'due to water system upgrades.' No…
Source: middleportohio.commiddleportohio.com
Planned or needed
- Third Street Sanitary Sewer Improvements · 2025 · planned
ARC Grant No. 25 OH-22073. Approximately 170 feet of 8-inch sanitary sewer main in the Third Street right-of-way, plus six 6-inch lateral lines totaling 260…
Supply stress
Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the Middleport well field HIGH SUSCEPTIBILITY to contamination - it is a shallow alluvial aquifer in the Ohio River valley. Quantity is not the constraint: average daily use in 2024 was 140,800 gallons across three wells, and the Pomeroy interconnection was not needed at all during the year. The…
Source: middleportohio.com
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-operated sanitary collection. The 2025 federal environmental assessment for the ARC-funded Third Street project states plainly that 'Middleport has combined sewer and storm collections systems, which causes the combined sewers to often exceed their capacity, especially during heavy rain events. This results in discharges of…
Storm
Not separate. Per the same 2025 environmental assessment, storm collection is combined with the sanitary system, and the combined sewers overflow to the Ohio River in heavy rain. No standalone stormwater utility or fee 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
- 45760 · Middleport67% of residents
- 45620 · Cheshire Township and Cheshire8% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 45769 · Pomeroy0% 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
Middleport Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Middleport Village.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 3 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
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
History: middleportohio.com, en.wikipedia.org, middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Water quality: middleportohio.com
Planned work: middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Water pressure: middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Capital projects: middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Rates: middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Sewers: middleportohio.com, middleportohio.com
Treatment: middleportohio.com
Supply stress: middleportohio.com