Ohio and Lee Twp Water Authority

• The Authority's name, 'Ohio and Lee Township Water Authority,' reflects that it serves two adjoining Monroe County townships.
• Hannibal was originally platted as 'Baresville' after founder Jacob Bare before being renamed for its post office.
• Hannibal sits directly beside the Hannibal Locks and Dam on the Ohio River.
• Hannibal's population fell nearly 24% between 2010 (411) and 2020 (314).
• The Authority's Duffy wastewater plant, opened in 2024, was the first fix in a 2011 legal settlement over decades of raw sewage discharge into the Ohio River — a problem local officials had discussed addressing for…

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• n/aHannibal was originally platted as 'Baresville,' named for founder Jacob Bare, then renamed Hannibal after its post office opened under that name.
• 2010Census recorded Hannibal's population at 411.
• 2020Census recorded Hannibal's population at 314, down 23.6% from 2010.
• 2011The Ohio and Lee Township Water and Sewer Authority signed an agreement with the Ohio Attorney General to address decades of raw/partially-treated sewage discharge into the Ohio River from Duffy…
• 2024The Authority's first new wastewater treatment plant, serving Duffy, began operating in December 2024 ($4.66 million; grand opening Jan. 28, 2025), funded largely by an Ohio Dept. of Development…

Source: en.wikipedia.orgglcap.org

How it is treated

Source is two groundwater wells located in Sardis between Ohio Rt. 7 and the Ohio River (not, as earlier guessed, an unspecified Ohio River alluvial well near Hannibal itself). Water is treated with a sodium hypochlorite (chlorine) solution and pumped to two storage tanks — one outside Hannibal on…

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Water pressure

Not published — no CCR, pressure-zone map, or engineering report gives a system pressure figure.

No published water rate schedule was located for the Authority.

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Duffy Wastewater Treatment Plant · $4.7 million · 2024 · completed
  New recirculating media filter plant with STEP collection system; first of three plants required under the 2011 AG agreement.
• Hannibal Wastewater Treatment Plant · 2026-2027 · under construction
  Second plant under the same program; village source said completion expected within 24 months of the Duffy plant's Dec. 2024 startup.
• Sardis Wastewater Treatment Plant · 2027-2028 · planned
  Third and final plant in the Ohio & Lee wastewater program; will serve Sardis only.

Source: glcap.orgnewsandsentinel.com

Not established from sources found. Hannibal sits on the Ohio River immediately adjacent to the Hannibal Locks and Dam, in an industrial stretch of the upper Ohio Valley, but no drought/capacity documentation for this specific groundwater system was located.

Sanitary

Historically inadequate: raw and partially-treated sewage was discharged into the Ohio River and tributaries from Duffy, Hannibal, and Sardis, prompting a 2011 consent agreement with the Ohio Attorney General. Under that program the Authority is building STEP (septic tank effluent pumping) collection systems feeding two new…

Storm

Not documented — no stormwater system information located for Hannibal/the Authority's service area.

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