Water system
Piketon Village
EPA ID OH6600712 · Pike County · 2,181 people served · owned by a local government
Piketon Village treats its own water from Groundwater wells (3 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 3
- Serves
- 2,181 people · Pike County
- EPA ID
- OH6600712
About this area's water
Did you know
- Piketon's old plant had no softening at all, and Ohio EPA reported that some residents were spending upwards of $40 a month on private household water softeners - so the new plant was built partly to make those private…
- The village financed the roughly $8M plant with a zero-percent Ohio EPA loan plus up to $3,994,717 in disadvantaged-community principal forgiveness - about half the project cost - saving an estimated $9,930,000 over a…
- Piketon's own 2025 water report voluntarily itemizes its past reporting failures from 2017 through 2020, including the year it left an individual lead result of 19.5 ppb - over the action level - out of the published…
- The 1972 pipe connecting Piketon to Pike Water, Inc. was built so Pike Water could buy Piketon's water. The flow has since reversed: it is now the emergency line through which Pike Water rescues Piketon.
- Ohio EPA seriously evaluated simply abandoning Piketon's plant and buying water from Pike Water instead, but rejected it - partly because Pike Water does not soften its water either, so the hardness complaint driving…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
History6
- 1953Piketon's water treatment plant was constructed at 224 West Second Street.
- 1972Interconnection built between Piketon and Pike Water, Inc., originally so that Pike Water could purchase water from Piketon. It now functions in the opposite direction, as an emergency connection…
- 1973The water treatment plant received various process upgrades.
- 1986The 300,000-gallon single-pedestal Lucas Street Water Tower was constructed, serving downtown Piketon and the fairgrounds area.
- 2007The water treatment plant received electrical and control upgrades.
- 2013The 400,000-gallon glass-lined bolted-steel Pike Hill standpipe was constructed at the end of Skyline Drive, serving residents east of US Highway 23.
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater from three wells located within the village at 224 West Second Street, averaging 70 feet deep and drawing from the Teays River Valley Aquifer; each well is rated at 500 gallons per minute, though recent testing showed some pumps operating below rating. Daily production in 2025 averaged…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
Water pressure
Not published. No psi figures or pressure-zone descriptions appear in the CCR or the Ohio EPA Environmental Assessment. Storage and service areas are documented instead: the…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
What it costs
Typical household bill about $54 a month for water.
PROJECTION, NOT A PUBLISHED TARIFF. Piketon publishes no rate ordinance or schedule online (the village site's utilities and projects pages return 404). Ohio EPA's May 2023…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic Well below the MCL. Erosion of natural deposits; industrial activity. | 0.6 ppb | 10 ppb (MCL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride No violation. | 0.14 ppm | 4 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Barium CCR lists level found 0.118 with range of detection 0.122. No violation. | 0.118 ppm | 2 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrate No violation. | 1.07 ppm | 10 ppm (MCL) | 2025 |
| Nitrite No violation. Monitored less often than annually. | 0.04 ppm | 1 ppm (MCL) | 2022 |
| Gross alpha (excluding uranium and… Erosion of natural deposits. No violation. | 4.07 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L (MCL) | 2022 |
| Total Chlorine Range 1.19-1.49 ppm. Disinfectant residual; no violation. | 1.348 ppm | 4 ppm (MRDL) | 2024-202… |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Locational running annual average across 2021-2025 samples. Individual results ranged widely, 3.9-88.3 ppb, so single… | 40.08 (LRAA) ppb | 80 ppb (MCL) | 2021-202… |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Locational running annual average; individual results ranged 0-18.0 ppb. No violation. | 6.325 (LRAA) ppb | 60 ppb (MCL) | 2021-202… |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero out of 10 samples over the action level. Separately, the CCR discloses that a 2017 sample result of 19.5 ppb -… | 0.90 ppb | 15 ppb (Action… | 2025 |
Source: piketonohio.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0.9 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
10 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 10 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Piketon Water Treatment Plant replacement · $8 million · 2023-2025 · completed
New gravity-filtration plant with ion-exchange softening and two 200,000-gallon clearwells on village-owned property on Piketon Road, southwest of the 1953…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
Planned or needed
- New Piketon wastewater treatment plant · planned
Ohio EPA's 2023 Environmental Assessment states the new WTP and a future WWTP will be built on the same Piketon Road site, so that treatment byproduct can be…
Source: piketonohio.gov
Supply stress
Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the Teays River Valley Aquifer supplying Piketon's three wells (average depth 70 feet) as having a high susceptibility to contamination, due to the sensitive nature of the aquifer and the potential contaminant sources identified - with the standard caveat that this describes conditions, not actual…
Source: piketonohio.govpiketonohio.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Village-operated. An existing wastewater treatment plant appears on Ohio EPA's 2023 planning map, with a new WWTP planned on the Piketon Road site adjacent to the new water plant. Capacity, receiving stream, and any consent-decree status are not published.
Storm
Not published.
Source: piketonohio.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
- 45661 · Piketon32% 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
Piketon Village does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Piketon Village.
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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
Notable facts: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
History: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
Water quality: piketonohio.gov
Planned work: piketonohio.gov
Water pressure: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
Capital projects: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
Rates: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
Sewers: piketonohio.gov
Treatment: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov
Supply stress: piketonohio.gov, piketonohio.gov