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  "name": "East Liverpool City",
  "county": "Columbiana",
  "population": 12586,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "ohio",
  "label": "Ohio River",
  "bodies": [
    "Ohio River"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Liverpool Ohio River I"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Single named intake confirms the Ohio River as sole raw water source.",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1916",
        "East Liverpool's surface water treatment plant was constructed to draw from the Ohio River at river mile 40.2; the plant is at 2220 Michigan Avenue and remains the city's sole source."
      ],
      [
        "2022",
        "Ohio EPA identified plant deficiencies - deteriorating concrete in settling basins, leaks in filter pools, and filter media needing replacement - that went unresolved."
      ],
      [
        "2025-01",
        "City received a formal Ohio EPA notification letter and a 'Tier 2 offender' designation for the unaddressed 2022 deficiencies; a notice describing the repair plan went to residents on Feb. 12, 2025."
      ],
      [
        "2025-09",
        "System failed to continuously record individual filter effluent turbidity every 15 minutes as required by OAC 3745-81-74(B)(1) - operators had been logging manually every 4 hours. Equipment was…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "The system operated in 2025 under a conditioned license to operate, with conditions requiring it to address ongoing violations."
      ],
      [
        "2026-06",
        "Ohio Water Development Authority approved two Fresh Water Loan Fund loans to the city - $772,695 for a preliminary engineering report on aging water system infrastructure and $1,467,117 for a PER on…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Conventional surface water treatment of Ohio River water at the 1916 plant at 2220 Michigan Avenue, drawing at river mile 40.2. The CCR documents filtration (individual filter effluent turbidimeters, turbidity treatment technique), TOC removal (2025 removal ratio 1.10), chlorine disinfection (1.34…",
    "press": "Not published. The city does not publish distribution pressure, storage volumes or tank inventory.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No current rate schedule is published on the city website or in the online code. Ohio EPA's 2022 Sewer and Water Rate Survey is the last unambiguous figure: an annual residential…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "76.3",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Range 28-104.2 ppb; no violation (compliance is on a locational running annual average), but the highest single result…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "23.9",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Range 12.8-24.7 ppb; chlorination by-product."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "1.72",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.64-1.72 ppm; fertilizer runoff and septic leaching."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.01",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.81-1.29 ppm; natural plus additive."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "1.34",
        "ppm",
        "MRDL 4",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.05-1.60 ppm; disinfectant residual."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.0329",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2025",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries."
      ],
      [
        "Combined Radium",
        "1.07",
        "pCi/L",
        "5",
        "2023",
        "Monitored less than annually; erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.26",
        "NTU",
        "TT (treatment…",
        "2025",
        "Highest single result; 100% of monthly samples met the limit."
      ],
      [
        "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)",
        "1.10",
        "ratio",
        "TT (must exceed…",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.02-1.31; in compliance with TOC removal requirements."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "1.84",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2025",
        "Second monitoring period; range ND-6.90 ppb; 0 of 30 sites above the action level."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Water treatment plant deficiency repairs (settling basins, filter pools, filter media)",
        1700000,
        "2025-2027",
        "under construction",
        "Ordered after Ohio EPA cited unresolved 2022 deficiencies and gave the plant a Tier 2 designation; contractor started summer 2025. Board of Public Utilities…"
      ],
      [
        "Individual filter effluent turbidimeter recording upgrade",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Equipment installed so IFE turbidity records every 15 minutes as of Oct. 3, 2025, resolving the 2025 monitoring violation. No cost published."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Preliminary engineering report - aging water system infrastructure",
        772695,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "OWDA Fresh Water Loan Fund loan at 4.50% for five years, announced June 2026. Funds a study of alternatives, not construction; no construction project or cost…"
      ],
      [
        "Preliminary engineering report - wastewater treatment plant process improvements",
        1467117,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Second OWDA Fresh Water Loan Fund loan at 4.50% for five years, announced June 2026."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "The 2025 CCR states the source water protection plan gives the system a HIGH susceptibility rating. The Ohio River at mile 40.2 is the sole source - the CCR names no wells, no interconnection and no backup supply - so the system depends entirely on a heavily industrialized navigable river shared with Pennsylvania and West Virginia.…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City-run wastewater department (elwwtp@eastliverpool.com, 330-386-5525). Ohio EPA's 2022 rate survey lists an annual residential sewer bill of $300 at 4,000 gal/month (about $25/month), based on a reported average usage of 4,000 gal/month. In June 2026 the city took a $1,467,117 OWDA loan for a preliminary engineering report on WWTP…",
      "st": "The city operates a separate stormwater utility with an MS4 program. Ohio EPA's 2022 rate survey lists a residential stormwater charge of $84 per year. The prior draft's 'Ordinance No. 3 (2019)' citation could not be verified and has been dropped.…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "The intake is a street address as much as a river mile: East Liverpool draws the Ohio River at mile marker 40.2, at 2220 Michigan Avenue, through a plant that has been running since 1916.",
      "In 2025 the plant treated an average of 2.8 million gallons a day for roughly 12,600 people - and its source water protection plan rates the system's susceptibility to contamination as 'high.'",
      "East Liverpool once held about 85 pottery firms producing on the order of two-thirds of the nation's pottery, an industry that sat along the same Ohio River stretch the city still drinks from. (Reported by Wikipedia and…"
    ],
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      "history": [
        "https://eastliverpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf",
        "https://www.yahoo.com/news/next-violations-east-liverpool-water-230944446.html",
        "https://www.wfmj.com/news/local-news/east_liverpool/east-liverpool-receives-multiple-loans-for-water-system-upgrades/article_f991fd5d-8c13-40d9-9ee2-4a2257bfee09.html"
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      "rates": [
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        "https://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2023/12/east-liverpool-residents-to-see-5-water-rate-increase/",
        "https://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2023/12/east-liverpool-water-rates-to-increase-by-5-in-new-year/",
        "https://eastliverpool.com/city-department/water-dept/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://eastliverpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://eastliverpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://www.wfmj.com/news/local-news/east_liverpool/east-liverpool-receives-multiple-loans-for-water-system-upgrades/article_f991fd5d-8c13-40d9-9ee2-4a2257bfee09.html",
        "https://www.wytv.com/news/local-news/east-liverpool-approved-to-receive-over-2-2m-in-waste-infrastructure-loans/"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://eastliverpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://eastliverpool.com/city-department/waste-water/",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/43/Rate%20Reports/Ohio_EPA_2022_Sewer_and_Water_Rate_Survey.pdf",
        "https://eastliverpool.com/city-department/stormwater-utility/",
        "https://www.wfmj.com/news/local-news/east_liverpool/east-liverpool-receives-multiple-loans-for-water-system-upgrades/article_f991fd5d-8c13-40d9-9ee2-4a2257bfee09.html"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://eastliverpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Liverpool,_Ohio"
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