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Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory; it is the seat of Belmont County." ], [ "2016", "An October drought forces the city to draw on the Provident Reservoir for a limited time — the only prior use officials could recall before 2019." ], [ "2019", "Drought drops the main reservoir 8 to 10 feet, roughly a 50% loss on a reservoir that holds about 27 million gallons and is not much more than 16 feet deep; the city prepares to take its full…" ], [ "2024", "A statewide drought that began in mid-June pushes the reservoir to the lowest level the service director had seen in ten years (longtime employees recalled lower levels in the late 1990s and early…" ], [ "2025", "An underdrain failure in the plant's second filter causes treatment-technique violations for inadequate filtration in October and December, with turbidity peaking at 12.83 NTU; the city operates on a…" ] ], "treat": "The city treats its own surface water from two small local-runoff impoundments: the main reservoir on Reservoir Road and the Provident Reservoir on Vineyard Road, north of the city. Conventional filtration and chlorination; fluoride is present at up to 1.41 ppm and free chlorine averaged 1.38 ppm…", "press": "Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the city's CCR, rate schedule or department pages.", "rate": { "g": 16.51, "n": "Rising-block schedule effective Sept. 5, 2025. Residential/commercial inside the city: $15.58 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $16.74 for the next 2,000; $17.89 for the next…", "m": 82.53 }, "imp": [ [ "Turbidity", "12.83", "NTU", "0.3 NTU in 95%…", "2025", "VIOLATION. Range 0.04-12.83 NTU; lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting the limit was 97%. Caused by an…" ], [ "Total organic carbon (removal ratio)", "0.81", "ratio…", "TT", "2025", "VIOLATION. Range of monthly ratios 0.81-1.42; a value below 1 means the required percentage of TOC was not removed." ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "52.83", "ppb", "60 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Range 46.7-59.3 ppb — the running average sits close to the limit and individual results reached 59.3. By-product of…" ], [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "55.78", "ppb", "80 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Range 30.70-73.5 ppb; by-product of chlorination." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.41", "ppm", "4 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Range 0.55-1.41 ppm." ], [ "Nitrate", "1.64", "ppm", "10 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Range 0.14-1.64 ppm; runoff from fertilizer and leaching from septic systems." ], [ "Total chlorine", "1.38", "ppm", "4 ppm (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.13-1.74 ppm." ], [ "Barium", "0.05", "ppm", "2 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits." ], [ "Selenium", "3.75", "ppb", "50 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Discharge from petroleum and metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits; mine discharge." ], [ "Chromium", "1.03", "ppb", "100 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Discharge from steel and pulp mills; erosion of natural deposits." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Belmont County backup water purchase agreement", null, "2019", "completed", "The city began buying up to its full contractual 325,000 gallons a day from the Belmont County Water and Sewer District during the 2019 drought; by 2024 the…" ], [ "Water Distribution Improvement Project (Phase I)", null, "2025", "under construction", "Referenced in the 2025 CCR: service line materials were verified by visual inspection by James White Construction as the distribution system replacement…" ], [ "Ohio EPA-mandated sanitary sewer smoke testing", null, "2026", "under construction", "Smoke testing of sanitary sewer lines resumed Sept. 8-11, 2026 on Orchard Drive, all of Spring Park, and East Main Street from Orchard Drive to Commons…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Filter No. 2 underdrain replacement and backwash pressure gauges", null, "2026", "needed", "Corrective action for the 2025 turbidity treatment-technique violation: the filter has been taken out of service, the failed underdrain system will be…" ], [ "Water Distribution Improvement Project - Phase II", null, "2026", "planned", "Ordinance 2026-30 (Aug. 18, 2026) directs the Director of Public Services to solicit competitive bids; no cost is published." ], [ "Efaw Lift Station Project (sanitary sewer)", null, "2026", "planned", "Ordinance 2026-29 authorizes execution of a notice of award and contract with the James White Construction Company; no contract amount is published on the city…" ], [ "Reservoir intake sediment removal", 1000000, "2019", "needed", "The plant's lower intake is plugged under an estimated 10 to 12 feet of sediment and would require a diver; the then-service director called it 'probably a…" ], [ "Broader water plant and distribution system upgrades", null, "2019", "needed", "Ohio EPA mandated upgrades after finding algal blooms capable of producing toxins; the mayor put plant and distribution upgrades 'in the tens of millions of…" ] ], "stress": "High. The city depends on two small, rain-fed local impoundments with no river or aquifer of its own — the main reservoir holds only about 27 million gallons and is barely 16 feet deep — and it has drawn down hard in the 2016, 2019 and 2024 droughts. Its only fallback is purchased Belmont County groundwater, capped by agreement (325,000…", "sew": { "s": "The city runs its own combined Water and Wastewater Department under Water Superintendent Mike Reed, treating its wastewater locally, with billing through the Municipal Utilities Office. Sewer rates effective Sept. 5, 2025, residential/commercial inside city: $14.07 per 1,000 gallons for the first 2,000; $14.91 for the next 2,000; $15.76…", "st": "Not published. The city publishes no stormwater utility fee, CSO inventory or flooding information; the Ohio EPA-mandated smoke testing implies an inflow-and-infiltration problem in the separate sanitary system, but no storm sewer detail is available." }, "fun": [ "The city's two reservoirs are named, plainly, 'Main' and 'Provident' — and when the main one runs low the city pumps water from Provident through a pipeline all the way across town into the main reservoir.", "Its drought insurance is somebody else's aquifer: the Belmont County Water and Sewer District's well water arrives already treated and goes straight into the city's water towers.", "The backup is turning into a habit — the county connection is normally used about 12 days a year, but in 2025 it ran 115 days and delivered 25.4 million of the roughly 172 million gallons the city put out.", "In 2019, with the reservoir down 8 to 10 feet, the mayor wanted to sell the whole system to Aqua Ohio; council members and two mayoral candidates pushed back, and the city still owns and runs it today." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://stclairsville.com/", "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/st-clairsville-to-begin-using-belmont-county-water-soon/", "https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2024/09/levels-dropping-receding-st-clairsville-reservoir-raises-concerns/", "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf", "https://stclairsville.com/city-government/departments/water-and-waste-water-departments/" ], "rates": [ "https://stclairsville.com/for-residents/municipal-utilities-office/rates-information/" ], "impurities": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf", "https://stclairsville.com/", "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/st-clairsville-to-begin-using-belmont-county-water-soon/", "https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2024/09/levels-dropping-receding-st-clairsville-reservoir-raises-concerns/" ], "planned": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf", "https://stclairsville.com/2026/08/18/ordinance-2026-30-an-ordinance-authorizing-and-directing-the-director-of-public-services-to-solicit-competitive-bids-for-the-phase-ii-of-the-water-distribution-improvement-project-and-declaring-an-eme/", "https://stclairsville.com/", "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/st-clairsville-to-begin-using-belmont-county-water-soon/" ], "water_stress": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf", "https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2024/09/levels-dropping-receding-st-clairsville-reservoir-raises-concerns/", "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/st-clairsville-to-begin-using-belmont-county-water-soon/" ], "sewer": [ "https://stclairsville.com/for-residents/municipal-utilities-office/rates-information/", "https://stclairsville.com/city-government/departments/water-and-waste-water-departments/", "https://stclairsville.com/" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://stclairsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-CCR.pdf", "https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2024/09/levels-dropping-receding-st-clairsville-reservoir-raises-concerns/", "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2019/09/st-clairsville-to-begin-using-belmont-county-water-soon/" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43950", "share": 0.7303, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43905", "share": 0.3038, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43912", "share": 0.002, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "43906", "share": 0.0019, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH0701516.jpg", "caption": "The two municipal water towers in St. Clairsville, Ohio, which draws from the Main and Provident Reservoirs.", "credit": "Cutlass", "license": "CC0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0701516/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH0701516.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"St. Clairsville, City Of · OH0701516\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0701516/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }