Water system
Aqua Ohio - Aurora E
EPA ID OH6700512 · Portage County · 766 people served
Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys its water from Portage County Water Resources.
The system's record
- Aquifer
- Buried valley aquifer (upper sandstone/glacial buried valley system)
- Active wells
- 7
- Serves
- 8,606 people · Portage County
- EPA ID
- OH6702812
Operates 12 groundwater wells; maintains emergency interconnections with Cleveland, Ravenna, and Tallmadge surface-water systems for backup supply only, not routine source.
About this area's water Portage County Water Resources
Did you know
- Portage County Water Resources is a county utility that behaves like a regional one: 12 wells, 78 miles of water main and four plants averaging 3.12 million gallons a day serve the equivalent of a city of 30,000, while…
- The county sells treated groundwater wholesale: Streetsboro gets most of its domestic water from PCWR's Shalersville plant, and the county's rate sheet carries bulk rates for Aurora, Streetsboro and Aqua America.
- PCWR's 2025 water quality report opens by correcting its own 2024 report - two missing trihalomethane results, a chromium detection that never happened, and a lithium detection left out entirely.
- Every meter in the county service area is being swapped out starting in September 2026, the first systematic replacement in years.
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.govcityofstreetsboro.com
History6
- 2009Portage County commissioners established a county Storm Water District covering all unincorporated areas, to meet Ohio EPA's NPDES Phase II stormwater requirements.
- 2024Mantua Village water distribution replacement Phase 1 announced, along with notices to Mantua property owners about galvanized service laterals requiring replacement (Mantua is PWS OH6702212, a…
- 2025Ohio EPA revised the source water assessment reports for all three PCWR public water systems (OH670281, OH6702212 Mantua, OH6705312 Rivermoor).
- 2025Chinn Regional Sewer Improvements project commenced (notice of commencement February 2025; tree removal March 2025).
- 2026In its 2025 report PCWR publicly corrected four errors in the 2024 CCR: missing TTHM results for the Mantua and Rivermoor systems, chromium listed as detected when it was not detected in any system…
- 2026Sanitary sewer construction on the Chinn Regional project began March 9, with completion still planned for January 2027; a countywide water meter replacement program was announced to begin in…
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.gov
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
All supply is groundwater from 12 wells spread across the Shalersville, Brimfield, Mantua and Suffield areas, plus a connection to the City of Ravenna's surface-water system. Raw water goes to an aeration tank to oxidize high iron, then to a mixing tank dosed with polyaluminum chloride and soda ash…
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.gov
Water pressure
Not published; no psi figure appears in PCWR's water quality reports, facilities pages or rate documents.
What it costs
$7.31 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $30 a month for water.
2026 user rates, updated 3-11-2026. Water accounts are billed QUARTERLY (only Mantua Village and bulk accounts are monthly). For the metered Portage County water service area…
Source: portagecounty-oh.gov
Water quality & impurities9
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) range 39.0-39.6 ppb in the Portage County PWS; no violation | 39.6 ppb | 80 ppb MCL | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) range 10.0-10.5 ppb; no violation | 10.5 ppb | 60 ppb MCL | 2025 |
| Barium range 0.033-0.120 ppm; erosion of natural deposits | 0.120 ppm | 2 ppm MCL | 2025 |
| Total chlorine range 0.92-1.27 ppm | 1.13 ppm | 4 ppm MRDL | 2025 |
| Fluoride range 0.946-0.996 ppm; added to prevent tooth decay | 0.966 ppm | 4 ppm MCL | 2025 |
| Nitrate + Nitrite range ND-2.14 ppm | 2.14 ppm | 10 ppm MCL | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) range ND-1.2 ppm, 0 of 20 sites above the action level - but the 90th percentile is high for a system with corrosion… | 0.90 ppm | 1.3 ppm action… | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) not detected; 0 of 20 sites above the action level. The OH6702812 and Rivermoor distribution systems have no lead… | ND ppb | 15 ppb action… | 2025 |
| Lithium (unregulated, UCMR) naturally occurring; the detection was inadvertently omitted from the 2024 report and disclosed in the 2025 report | 11 ppb | no standard | 2024 |
Source: portagecounty-oh.gov
EPA compliance record · Aqua Ohio - Aurora E
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
EPA compliance record · Portage County Water Resources (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2025Lead and Copper Rule · treatment technique violation · known
- 2017Lead and Copper Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
EPA's count of 3 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.
5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans4
Recent and current work
- Chinn Regional Sewer Improvements · 2025-2027 · under construction
Notice of commencement February 2025; contractor United Earthworks began installing new sanitary sewers March 9, 2026; completion planned January 2027 with… - Sanitary sewer inflow and infiltration reduction projects · 2025 · under construction
Announced January 2025; no cost published. - Mantua water distribution replacement, Phase 1 · 2024 · under construction
Serves the separate Mantua Village PWS (OH6702212) that PCWR also operates; no cost published.
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.gov
Planned or needed
- Countywide water meter replacement program · 2026 · planned
Beginning September 2026, PCWR will systematically replace aging meters throughout the service area; Utility Service Company contracted to install. No cost…
Source: portagecounty-oh.gov
Supply stress
The Ohio EPA source water assessments for PCWR's systems, revised in 2025, find the county's drinking water sources have HIGH susceptibility to contamination - there is no protective clay layer over the aquifers, the water in the aquifer is shallow, and there are potential contaminant sources inside the protection areas. Supply…
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.govcityofstreetsboro.com
Sewers
Sanitary
PCWR runs the sewer side too: roughly 1,650,000 linear feet (312 miles) of sewer line, more than 100 pump stations, and 12 county-operated treatment plants (Streetsboro 4 MGD, Franklin Hills 1.5 MGD, Twin Lakes 458,000 gpd, Randolph 300,000 gpd, Atwater 200,000 gpd, Red Fox 160,000 gpd, Bolingbrook 120,000 gpd, Rivermoor 42,500 gpd, West…
Storm
Handled outside Water Resources: the Portage County Board of Commissioners established a county Storm Water District in 2009, covering all unincorporated areas of the county, to comply with Ohio EPA's NPDES Phase II permit program and implement a six-measure…
Source: portagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.govportagecounty-oh.gov
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 1 ZIP code
Serves
No ZIP code has Aqua Ohio - Aurora E on record as its main water supplier.
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 44241 · Streetsboro4% 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
Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys its water from Portage County Water Resources.
No other system is on record buying water from Aqua Ohio - Aurora E.
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