Pomeroy Village

• The Meigs County Courthouse in Pomeroy is built into a cliffside with three stories, each having its own ground-level entrance — distinctive enough to be featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
• The steam towboat Condor, built at Pomeroy in 1836, was among the first coal- rather than wood-fired boats on the Ohio River, reflecting the village's 19th-century role as a coal-shipping hub.
• The village peaked at roughly 5,000 residents around 1870 and has been in population decline ever since coal and salt production failed to resume after World War II.
• Pomeroy has weathered repeated disasters beyond flooding, including major fires in 1851, 1856, 1884, 1927, and 1976.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

• 1819Coal mining began in the Pomeroy area, which came to dominate the local economy for over a century.
• 1836The steam towboat Condor — one of the first coal-fired (rather than wood-fired) boats on the Ohio River — was built at Pomeroy, reflecting the village's emergence as a 19th-century coal-shipping hub.
• 1884One of the village's most disastrous floods struck (also a major fire year).
• 1913A major flood hit Pomeroy, among the worst in its history.
• 1937The Ohio River flood of 1937, one of the most disastrous on record for the village.
• 1945Coal and salt production in the area was not resumed after World War II ('when the war was over, coal and salt production was not resumed' — Wikipedia), leading to sustained economic and population…

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How it is treated

Pomeroy draws from 2 groundwater wells (underground aquifer, per the village's CCR summary) and disinfects before distribution; the full treatment train (filtration steps, specific disinfectant) is not published in any source located — the village's actual CCR document could not be retrieved during…

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Water pressure

Not published in any source located.

Only the meter-size-based minimum monthly charge could be reliably confirmed: $55.14/month for a standard 5/8"–3/4" residential meter, rising by meter size to $743.53/month for a…

Source: villagepomeroy.us

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · open

20 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 19 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• SR 833 sanitary sewer extension · $3.7 million · 2019
  $500,000 H2Ohio grant (announced Nov. 2019) toward a ~$3.7M project extending ~15,000 ft of 8-inch sanitary sewer, 92 manholes, and a new lift station to…

Source: wtap.com

EPA SDWIS shows a pattern of monitoring/reporting compliance issues (numerous recorded violations 2015–2026, mostly administrative rather than health-based), including open disinfection-byproduct monitoring gaps in 2020–2025 and an open, health-based-classified Treatment Technique violation (Lead and Copper Rule, code 5200) since October…

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Sanitary

Pomeroy operates its own wastewater treatment plant, discharging under an Ohio EPA NPDES permit to the Ohio River. In 2019 the village received a $500,000 H2Ohio grant toward a ~$3.7M, ~15,000-ft sanitary sewer extension along SR 833 serving ~80 previously septic-served homes.

Storm

The village sits along the Ohio River and has a documented history of severe flooding (1884, 1913, 1937); current storm sewer/drainage arrangements are not confirmed from a source read.

Source: wtap.com

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