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  "notes": "Four intakes (Baldwin, Crown, Morgan, Nottingham) are Cleveland Water's Lake Erie crib/intake facilities feeding its four treatment plants.",
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      "a": "11216 Stokes Blvd (at Martin Luther King Jr. Dr), Cleveland, OH 44104",
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    "hist": [
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        "1856",
        "Cleveland's first waterworks: a single pump station and 13 miles of mains delivering untreated Lake Erie water; a fountain on Public Square opened Sept. 24."
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        "1918",
        "Division Avenue Filtration Plant and Pump Station opens near W. 45th St.; rededicated in 1991 as the Garrett A. Morgan Water Treatment Plant."
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        "1925",
        "Baldwin Filtration Plant opens on the old Fairmount Reservoir site, delivering filtered water to all Cleveland Water customers for the first time."
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        "1951-1958",
        "Nottingham plant (1951) opens for east/southeast customers and Crown plant (1958) on Clague Rd. in Westlake for west/southwest customers."
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        "2023",
        "Cleveland Water launches a proactive Lead Service Line Replacement Program using federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding."
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    "press": "No average psi published. Four elevation-based pressure zones also set rates; 5 primary and 13 secondary pump stations, 22 towers/tanks, ~5,400 mi of main.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 3.13,
      "n": "2025 Cleveland residential: $9.85/mo fixed (5/8-1in meter); $23.44/MCF first 0.2 MCF, then $39.84/MCF. 1 MCF = 7,480 gal, so $3.13-$5.33 per 1,000 gal.",
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        "Same LRAA at all four plants; range 9.8-65.4. Below MCL, no violation."
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        "60",
        "2025",
        "Same at all four plants; range 6.0-14.7. Well below MCL."
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        "ppb",
        "15",
        "2024",
        "Below action level, but 1 of 52 samples hit 1,997 ppb from household plumbing."
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        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.06",
        "ppm",
        "1.3",
        "2024",
        "0 of 52 samples above the action level."
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        "0.45",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Baldwin plant; very low, typical of a Lake Erie source."
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        "ND",
        "ppt",
        "UCMR5 monitoring",
        "2024-202…",
        "646 tests across all four plants; nothing detected."
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        "Lead Service Line Replacement Program",
        null,
        "2023-present",
        "under construction",
        "Federal BIL funding; ~4,000 lines/yr via the program plus ~2,000 with main work, about 6,000/yr total."
      ],
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        "2021-2022",
        "completed",
        "H2Ohio funding replaced all lead service lines at licensed childcare facilities."
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    "plan": [
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        "System-wide lead service line replacement",
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        "planned",
        "~178,000 possible lead connections, 142,000 city-owned; at ~6,000/yr the utility expects a 25-year effort."
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    "stress": "Lake Erie supply is ample. Cleveland draws from the central basin, less affected than the western basin where Toledo's 2014 microcystin crisis cut off ~400,000 people, but harmful algal blooms remain the regional treatment risk. UCMR5 found no PFAS at any of the four plants.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD), not Cleveland Water, provides sanitary sewer service and wastewater treatment across greater Cleveland; NEORSD operates under a federal consent decree to reduce combined sewer overflows into the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie.",
      "st": "NEORSD runs a regional stormwater management program funded by a stormwater fee; much of Cleveland's older sewer system is combined sanitary/storm, the key driver of the CSO consent decree work."
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    "fun": [
      "The Baldwin plant sits on the site of the 80-million-gallon open-air Fairmount Reservoir, in use 1885-1904 at Stokes Blvd. and MLK Jr. Dr.",
      "Baldwin's own reservoir held 135 million gallons and was the largest in the world when it was built in the 1920s.",
      "The Morgan plant honors Garrett A. Morgan, the Black inventor of the gas mask and traffic signal, who used his gas mask to rescue workers in Cleveland's 1916 waterworks tunnel disaster.",
      "In 2024-25 Cleveland Water ran 646 tests for lithium and 29 PFAS compounds across all four plants and detected none of them."
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