Water system
Shawnee, Village Of
EPA ID OH6401003 · Perry County · 605 people served · owned by a local government
Shawnee, Village Of buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Hocking River buried valley aquifer (sand and gravel)
- Active wells
- 6
- Serves
- 1,994 people · Athens County
- EPA ID
- OH0501311
About this area's water
Did you know
- Shawnee was a genuine coal boomtown: it had roughly 4,000 residents around 1900 but only about 500-600 today, an over 85% population collapse.
- The Cincinnati Reds played a demonstration game in Shawnee in 1906, a sign of the village's regional prominence at its peak.
- Shawnee's 1881 Knights of Labor Opera House and 1907-08 Tecumseh Theater (restored starting 1976) reflect its early organized-labor and immigrant mining history.
- Shawnee today relies entirely on purchased water: it has no wells or treatment plant of its own, buying finished water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, which has served the region since 1959.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History4
- 1872Railroad reached the site and investor T.J. Davis platted the town on the former Israel Gordon farm.
- 1874Shawnee was incorporated as a village, at the start of a coal, clay, and oil boom.
- 1890s-1900sPopulation peaked near 3,000-4,000 as Welsh, Irish, and Eastern European immigrant miners arrived; the 1890 census recorded 3,266 residents.
- 1890-2020Population fell about 85%, from 3,266 to 505, as coal mining declined through the 20th century.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Shawnee has no wells or treatment plant of its own; it buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District (PWSID OH0501311). Burr Oak has operated since 1959, drawing on six groundwater wells that feed a single treatment plant with 4-million-gallon-per-day capacity, four booster…
Source: burroakwater.org
Water pressure
Not published for Shawnee or Burr Oak Regional Water District.
What it costs
No rate schedule specific to Shawnee customers was found; Perry County's water/wastewater office handles billing but its site does not name Shawnee or list rates. Burr Oak…
Source: burroakwater.org
Water quality & impurities
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.4 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · above the legal limit on average · measured 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 2 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.
EPA compliance record · Burr Oak Regional Water District (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020: 1 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
Supply stress
Burr Oak Regional Water District's single 4-MGD groundwater plant supplies 17 satellite systems and 38,000+ people across four counties; this scale gives Shawnee a buffer against a local well failure, but also means a regional supply disruption would affect Shawnee along with many other communities. No specific contamination, drought, or…
Source: burroakwater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Perry County splits its water and wastewater services into Northern and Southern Perry County divisions along a boundary at Sheridan Schools; the county's page does not name Shawnee.
Source: perrycountyohio.gov
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 1 ZIP code
- 43782 · Shawnee51% 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
Shawnee, Village Of buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Shawnee, Village Of.
What the records show about Shawnee, Village Of
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Shawnee, Village Of as owned by a local government. It has 225 service connections and serves 605 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
Its office telephone on EPA's record is 740-621-0502.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
Shawnee, Village Of buys water that Burr Oak Regional Water District treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Burr Oak Regional Water District: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, ion-exchange softening, and sand or media filtration.
The list is what each system registered with EPA for treatment plants EPA still shows as active, and it can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Violations
EPA counts 2 health-based violations for Shawnee, Village Of since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. They fall into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.
EPA logs a violation for each compliance period a problem lasts, so the count of 2 includes 1 repeat entry of the problems listed.
EPA logs no violations of any kind for Shawnee, Village Of since 2020.
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) | above the legal limit on average | 0.085 mg/L | 0.08 mg/L | returned to compliance |
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) violation records: health-based violations with compliance periods beginning in 2015 or later, all violations from 2020 or later (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Lead and copper at the tap
In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Shawnee, Village Of was 1.4 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
The highest result on file is 2.8 ppb, in the period ending December 2024.
EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Shawnee, Village Of since 2016, the first ending in 2018; no period was above 10 ppb.
Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Shawnee, Village Of sent EPA, 230 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 230 |
| All lines | 230 |
Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder. The 90th-percentile result is the level nine in ten of the sampled homes were at or below. Lead comes mostly from service lines and house plumbing, not the source water, so a low result for the system does not clear an old house.
EPA's dashboard status for this inventory: reported all required service line types.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) lead and copper 90th-percentile results (EPA Envirofacts), sampling periods ending 2016 or later; EPA's service line inventory dashboard, Ohio's 2026 Q2 submission.
PFAS
The water Shawnee, Village Of buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 1 plant of Burr Oak Regional Water District (latest sample June 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
Ohio EPA's current sampling status map lists 1 plant of Burr Oak Regional Water District as sampled, most recently June 2026.
PFAS are the 'forever chemicals' from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026); Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling, 2019 to 2021, and its sampling status map.
Disinfection byproducts
Chlorine that disinfects water also reacts with organic matter to form byproducts. Two groups have federal limits: total trihalomethanes (TTHM, 80 µg/L) and five haloacetic acids (HAA5, 60 µg/L), judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site.
For TTHM, the average of Shawnee, Village Of's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 46.2 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 86.3 µg/L and the highest single sample was 99.2 µg/L, from 53 samples taken from 2012 to 2019. A yearly average over 80 is not itself a violation, because compliance is judged site by site.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 14.1 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 22.1 µg/L and the highest single sample was 28.4 µg/L, from 53 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 46.2 µg/L (2019) | 86.3 µg/L | 99.2 µg/L | 53 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 14.1 µg/L | 22.1 µg/L | 28.4 µg/L | 53 |
A yearly average of 0 means nothing was detected in that year's samples. EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system samples (non-detects counted as zero).
Nitrate, arsenic and radioactivity
The water Shawnee, Village Of buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
Nitrate: the highest of 10 samples was 0.48 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2013; in 2019, the last year sampled, nitrate was not detected. No sample was over the limit of 10 mg/L. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants.
Arsenic was not detected in 3 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 10 | 0.48 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 3 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
Measured in finished water: at the plant's entry points and in the distribution system; raw well and intake samples are left out. Non-detects count as zero.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Solvents and fuels
The water Shawnee, Village Of buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
EPA's file holds results for all six solvent and fuel compounds it checked. Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and vinyl chloride were not detected in 9 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 9 | 0 of 9 | not detected | 0 |
"Not detected" means the lab's result was below what its method can measure, not that the compound is absent. Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Farm chemicals and metals
The water Shawnee, Village Of buys is treated by Burr Oak Regional Water District, so the results below are Burr Oak Regional Water District's.
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 3 of 3 samples, highest 53.8 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 2 samples, alachlor in 2 samples, chromium in 3 samples, cadmium in 3 samples, mercury in 3 samples, selenium in 3 samples, thallium in 3 samples.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 2 | 0 of 2 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 3 | 3 of 3 | 53.8 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
Non-detects count as zero in the highest-result column.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, finished water of Burr Oak Regional Water District.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 0 of 90 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Shawnee, Village Of tested positive (0%); in 2019, the last year on file, 0 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 1 sample tested for it.
A positive coliform test is a warning sign, not a violation by itself. E. coli is a sign that human or animal waste may have reached the water. Coliform counts are routine samples only; E. coli counts include repeat samples.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system presence/absence tests for total coliform and E. coli.
Fluoride
The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says Shawnee, Village Of buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, a system that adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists fluoridation among the steps at Burr Oak Regional Water District, which treats the water Shawnee, Village Of buys.
Measured fluoride: 1 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Burr Oak Regional Water District, which supplies Shawnee, Village Of, in 2017 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.92 to 1.04 mg/L across 3 samples in 2012 to 2019.
The recommended level for preventing tooth decay is 0.7 mg/L; the federal limit is 4 mg/L. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched September 2026); EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, entry-point fluoride samples.
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Shawnee, Village Of with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.
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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH6401003 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org
Rates: burroakwater.org
Sewers: perrycountyohio.gov
Treatment: burroakwater.org
Supply stress: burroakwater.org
