Little Hocking Water Association, Inc.

• Chemours' Washington Works plant sits just 1,300 feet across the Ohio River from Little Hocking's wellfield — and upstream of where the wells draw in river water.
• Little Hocking is the largest rural water system in Washington County, serving about 9,850 people over more than 250 miles of line from four wells.
• The water is very hard — about 385 mg/L as calcium carbonate, or 22.5 grains.
• The association intervened in a West Virginia federal lawsuit against Chemours and argued alongside the plaintiffs before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to defend a PFAS-discharge injunction.
• Its rate ladder has three usage tiers that are all priced at exactly $12.00 per 1,000 gallons — the tiers are a formality.

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• 2002Little Hocking Water Association first learned that PFOA (C8) from DuPont's Washington Works plant had contaminated its water supply and system.
• 2007-10-16Chemours (then DuPont) began testing Little Hocking's water for PFOA as part of the granular activated carbon operation — for PFOA only.
• 2007-11-02The granular activated carbon (GAC) treatment plant began operating to filter PFOA out of the water before it enters the distribution system.
• 2009LHWA filed suit against DuPont in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (case 2:09-cv-01081) over PFOA contamination of its roughly 45-acre wellfield, soil and groundwater.
• 2015LHWA and DuPont settled; terms were not made public, but the association describes the result as an ongoing federal court-enforceable settlement after roughly ten years of enforcement litigation.
• 2018-03LHWA advised its users that GenX — Chemours' PFOA replacement — had been detected in the wellfield.

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How it is treated

Groundwater from four wells in the Porterfield area drawing on the Ohio River Valley Aquifer, averaging 813,789 gallons per day of production in 2025. The entire supply passes through a granular activated carbon (GAC) filtration plant operating continuously since November 2, 2007, whose specific…

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Water pressure

Not published — the 2025 Water Quality Report gives no psi figure, though it discusses pressure drops from main breaks, hydrant flushing and fires in the context of backflow. The…

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$12.00 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $70 a month for water.

Rate schedule effective June 2025, published as a standalone PDF and reprinted in the 2025 CCR: minimum $34.00 per month covering 0-2,000 gallons on a 3/4-inch meter, then $12.00…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.2 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Recent and current work

• Granular activated carbon (GAC) PFAS treatment plant · 2007 · completed
  Operating continuously since November 2, 2007 to filter PFOA — and later GenX and other PFAS — from the wellfield before distribution. The 2025 CCR describes…
• Lead service line inventory · 2025 · completed
  Under the federal Lead and Copper Rule Revisions the association determined it has no lead, no galvanized-requiring-replacement and no lead-status-unknown…
• PFAS discharge litigation and Fourth Circuit appeal · 2025 · completed
  After finding Chemours was discharging PFOA and GenX to the Ohio River in violation of its Clean Water Act permits, the board authorized intervention in a…

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Planned or needed

• Waterline extensions to eliminate contaminated private wells · $8.5 million · 2026 · planned
  Funded by Little Hocking's roughly $8.5 million share of the $65 million DuPont Ohio River PFOA settlement distributed April 14, 2026 — the largest share of…
• Supplemental or replacement PFAS treatment technology · proposed
  The association says it is constantly reviewing research on treatments that could supplement or replace the existing GAC system, which is now roughly 18 years…

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High, and for an unusually specific reason. Ohio EPA rates the Ohio River Valley Aquifer wellfield HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE to contamination — depth to water in the buried valley aquifer is less than 50 feet below ground surface, only a thin protective layer of silt and clay separates the surface from the aquifer, and significant potential…

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Sanitary

Little Hocking Water Association is a water-only utility; no sanitary sewer service, rate, or plant appears in its rate schedule, CCR, or website. The CCR repeatedly names septic tanks as a nitrate and coliform source in the service area, consistent with rural households on individual on-site systems, but no source reviewed states this…

Storm

Not documented — no stormwater utility, fee, or program appears in any Little Hocking Water Association source reviewed. As a rural water association it has no stormwater role.

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