Water system
Belpre City
EPA ID OH8400012 · Washington County · 6,441 people served · owned by a local government
Belpre City treats its own water from Groundwater wells (5 wells).
The system's record
- Active wells
- 5
- Serves
- 6,441 people · Washington County
- EPA ID
- OH8400012
About this area's water
Did you know
- Belpre's GAC filtration system for removing C8 (PFOA) was built and is maintained by DuPont at no cost to the city, under a class-action settlement; the contamination was found after discovery of C8 in the Lubeck, WV…
- The city's name comes from the French phrase 'Belle Prairie,' meaning 'beautiful meadow' — a name French trappers gave the valley before American settlers arrived in 1788.
- The B&O Railroad's Parkersburg Bridge across the Ohio River at Belpre, completed in 1870, was reportedly the longest bridge in the world at 7,140 feet.
Source: cityofbelpre.comen.wikipedia.org
History6
- 1788Belpre settled; the name comes from 'Belle Prairie' (French for 'beautiful meadow'), a name French trappers gave the valley before American settlement.
- 1964Belpre's wastewater treatment plant built, designed for 1.5 MGD with a 5 MGD maximum flow.
- 2002Ohio EPA completed a Source Water Assessment for the City of Belpre in August 2002.
- 2006On March 1, 2006 a Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) remediation system for removal of C8 (ammonium perfluorooctanoate/PFOA) went on-line, provided by DuPont at no cost to the city under a class-action…
- 2024Water rates set by Ordinance 8 (2024-25): residential inside city $13.14 base plus $2.32 per 1,000 gallons, effective 10/01/2024.
- 2025Ordinance 33 (2024-25), passed November 24, 2025, adopted a new Exhibit B to Code Section 939.04 imposing a 20% water rate increase effective October 1, 2025.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Groundwater drawn from wells fed by the Ohio River Valley aquifer; the system produces an average of 1 million gallons per day. Water is chlorinated (chlorine residual 1.9 ppm in 2024) and, since March 1, 2006, runs through a DuPont-provided Granular Activated Carbon system for C8/PFOA removal…
Source: cityofbelpre.comcityofbelpre.com
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the 2024 CCR nor the Public Works Department page gives system pressure or pressure-zone figures.
Source: cityofbelpre.comcityofbelpre.com
What it costs
$2.78 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $30 a month for water.
Effective 10/01/2025 (Ordinance 33, 2024-25, Exhibit B — a 20% increase over the prior schedule): residential customers inside Belpre city limits pay a $15.77 monthly base rate…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate Level found 4.00 ppm; the CCR prints the range as 4.33-4.33. The city cites the regular presence of nitrate as evidence… | 4.00 ppm | 10 | 2024 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Disinfection byproduct; range 0.5-2.2 ppb. | 1 ppb | 80 | 2024 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Disinfection byproduct; range 0-2.5 ppb. | 1 ppb | 60 | 2023 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries. | 0.0876 ppm | 2 | 2022 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 25 samples exceeded the action level. The CCR states the distribution system has no lead… | 3.4 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2024 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Well below the action level; the CCR's sample-count line reads '0 of the 0 samples' exceeded. | 0.16 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2024 |
| PFAS (6 compounds) Sampled under the State of Ohio's PFAS Sampling Initiative; none of the six compounds detected in finished water. | ND n/a | n/a | 2020 |
| Chlorine Residual disinfectant; range 1.80-1.90 ppm. | 1.9 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2024 |
| Fluoride Well below the optimal fluoridation range, indicating naturally occurring fluoride rather than active fluoridation. | 0.12 ppm | 4 | 2022 |
| Atrazine Runoff from herbicide used on row crops; simazine also detected at 0.16 ppb the same year. | 0.17 ppb | 3 | 2021 |
Source: cityofbelpre.com
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- DuPont-funded Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) C8 removal system · 2006 · completed
On-line March 1, 2006. Provided by DuPont at no cost to the city for construction or maintenance under the C8 class-action settlement; Belpre Public Works… - Lead service line inventory · 2024 · completed
Completed using potholing of service lines, visual inspections, a lead line survey, mailings to homeowners for self-inspection, and door-to-door visual… - Water storage facility and water capital improvement program · under construction
Funded by the $4.00 and $2.00 monthly water improvement charges carried on every water bill; the city's bill explainer labels these lines 'STORAGE FAC & WATER…
Supply stress
Ohio EPA classifies Belpre as a high-susceptibility system based on high aquifer sensitivity. The 2024 CCR states the aquifer has a high sensitivity to contamination 'as indicated by the regular presence of nitrate and the past presence of 1,1,1 trichloroethane in the treated water,' which indicates a man-made source of pollution reached…
Source: cityofbelpre.com
Sewers
Sanitary
City of Belpre Public Works operates its own wastewater treatment plant, built in 1964 and designed for 1.5 million gallons per day with a maximum flow of 5 MGD. Average daily flow is 760,000 gallons. It uses an activated sludge process with screens, grit removal, clarification tanks, aeration and chlorination, staffed by 5 licensed…
Storm
No separate storm sewer utility or rate was found. The city's CCR carries storm water education from the Washington Soil and Water Conservation District, whose storm water coordinator serves the area, and notes that some runoff infiltrates to the aquifer…
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
- 45714 · Belpre69% 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
Belpre City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
No other system is on record buying water from Belpre City.
Photograph
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: cityofbelpre.com, en.wikipedia.org
History: cityofbelpre.com, en.wikipedia.org, cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Water quality: cityofbelpre.com
Water pressure: cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Capital projects: cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Rates: cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Sewers: cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Treatment: cityofbelpre.com, cityofbelpre.com
Supply stress: cityofbelpre.com