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
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 · water quality limits for corrosion control not met · known
- 2017Lead and Copper Rule · water quality limits for corrosion control not met · 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: 1 for required testing that was missed or reported late; 2 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records); 2 health-based.
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.
What the records show about Aqua Ohio - Aurora E
Who runs it
EPA's record says Aqua Ohio - Aurora E has 317 service connections and serves 766 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 330-832-5764.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys water that Portage County Water Resources treats first, so the steps that count are the seller's. EPA's treatment table registers these steps for Portage County Water Resources: aeration, corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, fluoridation, and ion-exchange softening.
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's record shows no health-based violations for Aqua Ohio - Aurora E since 2015.
EPA logs no violations of any kind for Aqua Ohio - Aurora E since 2020.
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 Aqua Ohio - Aurora E was 0 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027. A result of 0 means at least nine in ten of the homes sampled had no lead detected.
EPA has 8 sampling periods on file for Aqua Ohio - Aurora E 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 Aqua Ohio - Aurora E sent EPA, 315 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 0 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 0 |
| Unknown material | 0 |
| Not lead | 315 |
| All lines | 315 |
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
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 2 samples of the water entering the pipes of Aqua Ohio - Aurora E in 2024 and measured 29 PFAS. No PFAS was detected, PFOA and PFOS (federal limit 4 ng/L each) among them.
Ohio EPA's own statewide sampling tested 2 plants of Portage County Water Resources (latest sample September 2020). Not one of the six PFAS tested (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, GenX and PFBS) was detected.
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 Aqua Ohio - Aurora E's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 49.9 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 55.9 µg/L and the highest single sample was 66.9 µg/L, from 34 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 10.7 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 10.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 13.1 µg/L, from 34 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 49.9 µg/L (2019) | 55.9 µg/L | 66.9 µg/L | 34 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 10.7 µg/L | 10.7 µg/L | 13.1 µg/L | 34 |
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 Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys is treated by Portage County Water Resources, so the results below are Portage County Water Resources's.
Nitrate: the highest of 12 samples was 0.12 mg/L (as nitrogen) in 2017; 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 5 samples (limit 10 µg/L).
| Contaminant | Samples | Highest result | Limit | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) | 12 | 0.12 mg/L | 10 mg/L | 0 |
| Arsenic | 5 | not detected | 10 µg/L | 0 |
| Combined radium | 1 | not detected | 5 pCi/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 Portage County Water Resources.
Solvents and fuels
The water Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys is treated by Portage County Water Resources, so the results below are Portage County Water Resources'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 5 samples each.
| Compound | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| 1,2-dichloroethane | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Vinyl chloride | 2 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | 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 Portage County Water Resources.
Farm chemicals and metals
The water Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys is treated by Portage County Water Resources, so the results below are Portage County Water Resources's.
EPA's file holds results for 8 of the nine herbicides and metals it checked. Detected: barium in 5 of 5 samples, highest 100 µg/L (limit 2,000). Not detected: atrazine in 3 samples, alachlor in 3 samples, chromium in 5 samples, cadmium in 5 samples, mercury in 5 samples, selenium in 5 samples, thallium in 5 samples.
| Substance | Kind | Limit | Samples | Detected in | Highest result | Samples over limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrazine | Farm chemical | 3 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Alachlor | Farm chemical | 2 µg/L | 3 | 0 of 3 | not detected | 0 |
| Chromium | Metal | 100 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Cadmium | Metal | 5 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Barium | Metal | 2,000 µg/L | 5 | 5 of 5 | 100 µg/L | 0 |
| Mercury | Metal | 2 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Selenium | Metal | 50 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | not detected | 0 |
| Thallium | Metal | 2 µg/L | 5 | 0 of 5 | 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 Portage County Water Resources.
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 2 of 275 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Aqua Ohio - Aurora E tested positive (0.73%); in 2019, the last year on file, 1 of 12 did. E. coli was never found in the 7 samples 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 Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys its water from Portage County Water Resources, 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 Portage County Water Resources, which treats the water Aqua Ohio - Aurora E buys.
Measured fluoride: 1.04 mg/L on average leaving the plants of Portage County Water Resources, which supplies Aqua Ohio - Aurora E, in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.9 to 1.09 mg/L across 5 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.
Lithium
Lithium was not detected in 2 UCMR 5 samples at Aqua Ohio - Aurora E, last sampled in 2024 (the method reports from 9 µg/L).
Lithium is not regulated. EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026), samples from 2023 to 2025.
How well the service area is mapped
The service area drawn on the map for Aqua Ohio - Aurora E comes from the utility's own map.
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 OH6700512 (EPA ECHO).
