Water system
Southern Perry Co-millertown
EPA ID OH6401903 · Perry County · 146 people served
Southern Perry Co-millertown 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
6 wells pump ~4 MGD from a sand-and-gravel aquifer within the Hocking River buried valley system; serves Athens/Hocking/Morgan/Perry county customers.
About this area's water Burr Oak Regional Water District
Did you know
- The district has grown from its 1959 founding into a network of 6 wells, a 4-MGD plant, 4 booster stations, and 8 storage tanks, supplying (directly and wholesale) over 38,000 people across Athens, Hocking, Morgan, and…
- The district draws from the Hocking River buried-valley aquifer, a sand-and-gravel formation adjacent to the river rather than the river itself.
- Its current capital program pairs a GAC treatment upgrade for disinfection byproducts with a roughly 120,000-foot rural waterline expansion into Morgan County, funded partly by Ohio BUILDS (HB 168) and Appalachian…
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
History4
- 1959Burr Oak Regional Water District founded; now supplies water (directly and via 17 wholesale satellite systems - 8 villages, 7 rural systems, and Burr Oak State Park) across Athens, Hocking, Morgan…
- 2020EPA SDWIS records a non-health-based 'Other' (monitoring/reporting-category) violation with compliance period opening 1/10/2020; still shown unresolved (no compliance-period end date) in the current…
- 2024District began planning/design in October for a Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) treatment addition, engineered by Verdantas LLC with Kirk Brothers Co., Inc. as contractor, aimed at reducing…
- 2025District held an unconditioned Ohio EPA license to operate, per its CCR page.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Water is drawn from 6 wells tapping the Hocking River buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer and treated at a roughly 4-million-gallon-per-day plant; distribution runs through 4 booster pump stations, 8 elevated storage tanks, and 6"-18" mains. A GAC (granular activated carbon) stage is being added…
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
Water pressure
Not published/could not be independently verified. A pressure range (35-100+ psi, with a PRV recommended above 80 psi) surfaced in search summaries but could not be confirmed on…
What it costs
$11.10 per 1,000 gallons
Burr Oak system: $28.60 minimum monthly charge (covers first 2,000 gal), then $11.10 per 1,000 gallons above that; Satellite/large-volume rate is $5.70 per 1,000 gallons. Separate…
Source: burroakwater.org
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring/reporting violation (Other… Non-health-based violation, compliance period opened 1/10/2020, still open per EPA federal SDWIS/ECHO record; no… | N/A violation | N/A | 2020 |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record · Southern Perry Co-millertown
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
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 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Morgan County Waterline Expansion Project · 2024-2025 · under construction
Approximately 120,000 feet of new 2"-8" waterline with hydrants, valves, and services along SR-78, Drake Rd, Nichols Rd, Buck Run Rd, Finley Rd and others.…
Source: burroakwater.org
Planned or needed
- Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) treatment addition · 2024- · planned
Adds a GAC stage to reduce disinfection byproducts and meet Ohio EPA TTHM/HAA5 standards. Engineered by Verdantas LLC; contractor Kirk Brothers Co., Inc.…
Source: burroakwater.org
Supply stress
The buried-valley aquifer supply (about 4 MGD plant capacity) is not described anywhere as capacity-constrained for this population; the district's active capital spending is instead aimed at water-quality risk from disinfection byproducts, prompting the GAC addition, rather than raw-water scarcity.
Source: burroakwater.orgburroakwater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Burr Oak Regional Water District is a water-only district. No sewer service is described anywhere on its website; served villages/rural areas most likely rely on individual septic systems or separate municipal sewer utilities, but this was not separately confirmed for each community.
Storm
No storm-sewer role found; district's public materials cover only water distribution.
Source: burroakwater.org
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 0 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Southern Perry Co-millertown on record as its main water supplier.
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
Southern Perry Co-millertown buys its water from Burr Oak Regional Water District.
No other system is on record buying water from Southern Perry Co-millertown.
On the map
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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