Odrc-pickaway Correction

• The 'community' anchoring ZIP codes 43126 Harrisburg and 43117 Derby is not a town at all: it is a state prison utility with 40 service connections serving about 3,376 inmates and staff from seven on-site wells.
• The prison's wastewater plant is permitted for 2.3 million gallons a day but averaged 0.724 MGD in 2024 - though it peaked at 3.474 MGD, above its design capacity.
• Its treated sludge is farmed: 22 authorized Class B biosolids sites covering 927.5 acres across Pickaway County, with a landfill contract as backup.
• When Ohio EPA inspected in April 2025 it found the plant's UV disinfection out of service, no certified operator of record since August 2024, and years of laboratory and land-application records lost when a previous…
• The prison occupies buildings originally built for an Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities facility; it became a prison in 1984.

Source: data.epa.govedocpub.epa.ohio.govedocpub.epa.ohio.gov

• 1984Pickaway Correctional Institution opened as a prison at 11781 State Route 762 near Orient, in buildings that had formerly housed an Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities facility.
• 2020The prison drew national attention as one of the largest single COVID-19 hotspots in the United States - an outbreak unrelated to the water supply, but the site's most significant recent…
• 2023The institution's NPDES wastewater permit 4PP00003 took effect on February 1, running to January 31, 2028.
• 2025Ohio EPA inspected the wastewater plant on April 9-10 and issued a 12-item Notice of Violation on May 19, placing the facility in significant non-compliance; a follow-up biosolids inspection report…
• 2026The state solicited bids in March to replace the end-of-life ultraviolet disinfection system at the institution, with a target completion date of May 1, 2026.

Source: en.wikipedia.orgedocpub.epa.ohio.govedocpub.epa.ohio.gov

How it is treated

A self-supplied community water system: seven on-site wells, treated at the institution's own water treatment plant, which is co-located with the wastewater plant and shares staff with it. Federal SDWIS lists the system as a community water system, state government owned, groundwater sourced…

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Water pressure

Not published. No consumer confidence report, engineering report or distribution study for this system was located.

Not applicable and not published. This is a state correctional institution supplying its own inmate and staff population through 40 service connections; it is not a rate-charging…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.2 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

14 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 13 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• PCI Water Treatment Plant UV Replacement (OhioBuys SRC0000037153) · 2026
  State of Ohio solicitation issued for Pickaway Correctional Institution (DRC231300), posted March 2, 2026, responses due March 17, 2026, target completion May…
• Secondary return-activated-sludge pump repair at the wastewater plant · 2025 · completed
  Recorded as completed in March 2025 on Ohio EPA's biosolids generator inspection checklist.

Source: highergov.comedocpub.epa.ohio.gov

Planned or needed

• Corrective plan to return wastewater plant components to service · 2025 · needed
  Ohio EPA's May 19, 2025 Notice of Violation directed the institution to submit a plan, with short- and long-term operation and maintenance procedures, to…
• Hire a certified wastewater operator of record and meet Class III staffing hours · 2025 · needed
  Ohio EPA cited the plant for having no certified operator of record since August 2024 and for failing minimum staffing hours for a Class III plant; by the…

Source: edocpub.epa.ohio.govedocpub.epa.ohio.gov

The stress here is institutional rather than hydrologic. Seven wells serve roughly 3,376 people through 40 connections, and no capacity, drawdown or wellfield condition data is published. What Ohio EPA did document in 2025 is a thin operating bench: the same two Class I operators cover both the wastewater plant and the co-located water…

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Sanitary

The institution runs its own Class III wastewater treatment plant at 11781 State Route 762, Orient, under NPDES permit 4PP00003 (effective February 1, 2023, expiring January 31, 2028). Design capacity is 2.3 MGD against a 2024 average flow of 0.724 MGD and a 2024 peak of 3.474 MGD. The train is headworks fine screening (under 1.59 cm…

Storm

Not documented. No storm sewer system, permit or stormwater program for the institution was located.

Source: edocpub.epa.ohio.govedocpub.epa.ohio.gov

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