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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH0200811",
  "name": "Lima City",
  "county": "Allen",
  "population": 65619,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Auglaize River and Ottawa River, stored in city upground reservoirs",
  "bodies": [
    "Auglaize River",
    "Ottawa River",
    "Bresler Lake Reservoir",
    "Williams Reservoir",
    "Ferguson Reservoir",
    "Metzger Lake Reservoir"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Ferguson Lake Reservoir",
    "Bresler Reservoir",
    "Auglaize River",
    "Lost Creek Reservoir",
    "Ottawa River",
    "Twin Lakes Reservoir"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "West-side reservoirs (Bresler, Williams) are filled from the Auglaize River; east-side reservoirs (Ferguson, Metzger, Lost Creek, Twin Lakes) are filled from the Ottawa River; no wells or purchased water.",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.limaohio.gov/345/Water-Treatment-Process",
    "https://www.limaohio.gov/249/Water-Supply-Treatment"
  ],
  "chain": [
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  ],
  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Lima Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "1100 E. Wayne St, Lima, OH 45804",
      "la": 40.7437,
      "lo": -84.0877,
      "pt": "plant",
      "wb": "Auglaize River and Ottawa River (via upground reservoirs)",
      "src": "Auglaize River water fills the Bresler and Williams upground reservoirs west of Lima; Ottawa River water fills the Ferguson, Metzger Lake and Lost Creek reservoirs east of Lima; both feed the East Wayne Street treatment plant",
      "cls": "river",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Auglaize River pump stations (west side)",
          "wb": "Auglaize River",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Two river pump stations on the Auglaize River west of Lima that lift river water into the Bresler and Williams reservoirs; exact location not published",
          "la": 40.74,
          "lo": -84.212,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Bresler Reservoir",
          "wb": "Auglaize River (stored, upground reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "4.92-billion-gallon upground reservoir at Kemp and Grubb Roads in Amanda Township, about 8 miles west of Lima; filled by pumping from the Auglaize River; built 1970",
          "la": 40.74,
          "lo": -84.2332,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Williams Reservoir",
          "wb": "Auglaize River (stored, upground reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "5.2-billion-gallon upground reservoir just west of Bresler in Amanda Township, Lima's largest; filled from the Auglaize River; completed 2012",
          "la": 40.7362,
          "lo": -84.2519,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Ottawa River pump stations (east side)",
          "wb": "Ottawa River",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Two river pump stations on the Ottawa River east of Lima that lift river water, at times of high flow, into the Ferguson, Metzger and Lost Creek reservoirs; exact location not published",
          "la": 40.7457,
          "lo": -84.048,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Ferguson Reservoir",
          "wb": "Ottawa River (stored, upground reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "2.2-billion-gallon, 305-acre upground reservoir off Mumaugh Road in Bath Township east of Lima, joined to Metzger by a mile-long causeway; built 1958",
          "la": 40.7387,
          "lo": -84.0405,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Metzger Lake Reservoir",
          "wb": "Ottawa River (stored, upground reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "1.2-billion-gallon, 154-acre upground reservoir on Reservoir Road in Bath Township, next to Ferguson; filled from the Ottawa River; built 1946",
          "la": 40.742,
          "lo": -84.0492,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Lost Creek Reservoir",
          "wb": "Ottawa River (stored, upground reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "893-million-gallon, 130-acre upground reservoir on Reservoir Road on Lima's east edge; ODNR confirms water is pumped in from the Ottawa River at high flow; built 1918, the oldest of the group",
          "la": 40.7411,
          "lo": -84.0669,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Twin Lakes Reservoir",
          "wb": "Ottawa River (stored; on-site reservoir fed from Lost Creek Reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "Small reservoir built in 1887 next to the treatment plant on Reservoir Road, the original receiving basin for water piped from Lost Creek Reservoir; now also site of Lima's floating solar array",
          "la": 40.7412,
          "lo": -84.0833,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1918-1958",
        "Lima built its east-side upground reservoirs off the Ottawa River: Lost Creek (1918), Metzger Lake (1946) and Ferguson (1958)."
      ],
      [
        "1970",
        "Bresler Reservoir opened west of the city, fed from the Auglaize River, adding about 4.92 billion gallons of storage."
      ],
      [
        "2012",
        "Williams Reservoir was completed next to Bresler, adding about 5.2 billion gallons and becoming the system's largest."
      ],
      [
        "2014",
        "Lima signed a federal Clean Water Act consent decree over Ottawa River combined sewer overflows, with work that could exceed $147 million."
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "A January 2026 service line inventory listed 1,991 lead service lines and 2,221 of unknown material still in the system."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Reservoir water enters a 2.5-MG primary basin for clarification and softening, then 1.3-MG secondary basins; carbon dioxide stabilization and polyphosphate; ten rapid sand/anthracite filters plus four optional GAC filters; then chlorine, fluoride and polyphosphate.",
    "press": "Not published. The plant is rated about 15 MGD; storage is 4.4 MG of underground clearwells plus roughly 4 MG in five elevated tanks.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 5.03,
      "n": "2026 inside-city first tier $37.59 per 1,000 cu ft (~$5.03 per 1,000 gal) after a $21.38 monthly minimum covering 300 cu ft; top tier $26.33. Rises again Jan 2027.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "TTHM (total trihalomethanes)",
        "73.025",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb",
        "2025",
        "Running annual average; range 21.7-80.6 ppb, so single samples touched the MCL. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "HAA5 (haloacetic acids)",
        "18.975",
        "ppb",
        "60 ppb",
        "2025",
        "Running annual average. The CCR prints a range of 7.1-16.0, inconsistent with its own average."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "2.05",
        "ppm",
        "10 ppm",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.31-2.05; farm runoff and septic leaching into the Auglaize and Ottawa Rivers."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.98",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.81-1.21; natural erosion plus dental-health additive."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "<2.0",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb (AL)",
        "2025",
        "0 of 69 samples Jan-Jun and 0 of 62 Jul-Dec exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.047",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm (AL)",
        "2025",
        "Jan-Jun result; Jul-Dec was 0.040 ppm. No sample exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.21",
        "NTU",
        "0.3 NTU in 95%…",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.04-0.44; 100% of samples met the limit."
      ],
      [
        "PFAS (PFBA, unregulated)",
        "0.0053",
        "ppb",
        "no federal MCL",
        "2023",
        "UCMR5: PFBA 0.0053, PFPeA 0.0039, PFHxA 0.0033 ppb. No PFOA or PFOS detected."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Ottawa River CSO control program (2014 consent decree)",
        147000000,
        "2014-",
        "under construction",
        "Raises wet-weather treatment capacity from about 30 to 70 MGD and adds a 13-million-gallon CSO storage tank."
      ],
      [
        "Williams Reservoir",
        null,
        "2012",
        "completed",
        "Upground reservoir on the Auglaize River next to Bresler; about 5.2 billion gallons, the system's largest."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Lead service line replacement",
        null,
        "2026",
        "needed",
        "The January 2026 inventory lists 1,991 lead lines plus 2,221 of unknown material; no funded replacement program was found."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Lima has no wells and buys no water, so five upground reservoirs are the entire supply and summer drawdown is the standing concern. Disinfection byproducts are the sharper problem: the 2025 TTHM running annual average was 73 of an 80 ppb MCL, with one sample at 80.6 ppb.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Lima's wastewater plant discharges to the Ottawa River under a 2014 federal consent decree covering combined and sanitary sewer overflows across seven basins over 24 years. It must reach 70 MGD peak wet-weather capacity and build a 13-million-gallon storage tank; Lima paid a $49,000 penalty.",
      "st": "Older parts of Lima are served by combined sewers, which the consent decree targets at five or fewer overflows in a typical year. The city publishes an annual Combined Sewer Overflow activity report."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Lima draws no groundwater and buys no water. Every drop comes from five upground reservoirs that are pumped full from the Auglaize and Ottawa Rivers.",
      "Those five reservoirs hold roughly 14.3 billion gallons - enough to run the roughly 15-MGD plant for years without a drop of new river water.",
      "The 2014 Clean Water Act settlement runs 24 years and could top $147 million, more than doubling the sewage plant's wet-weather capacity from about 30 to 70 MGD.",
      "Lima's 2025 trihalomethane running annual average was 73 ppb against an 80 ppb limit, and one individual sample measured 80.6 ppb."
    ]
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