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McCartney & Associates had been selected as project engineer for the Kelleys Island Sanitary Improvements Project, with GPS and aerial LiDAR drone surveying…" ], [ "2025", "Ohio EPA issued a Notice of Violation dated May 13, 2025 for an HAA5 monitoring violation in Q1 2025: the samples froze and there was no flying weather to ship a replacement sample off the island in…" ], [ "2025", "The raw water intake pipe failed and the village bypassed it with a portable pump, drawing a Notice of Violation dated September 18, 2025 and a further raw-water-intake Notice of Violation dated…" ], [ "2025", "Village administrator reported to council on October 11, 2025 that the village had received final approval from OPWC to begin the water intake project. The water department also reported two water…" ], [ "2025", "Council took up a resolution in November 2025 selecting Simonson Construction Services, Inc. as best-value construction manager at risk for the sanitary collection system and WWTP project, with…" ] ], "treat": "Surface water is drawn from an intake 600 feet out in Lake Erie and treated at the Kelleys Island Water Treatment Plant, with filtration performance tracked by turbidity (highest 2025 result 0.11 NTU against the 0.3 NTU limit, 100% of monthly samples compliant) and by Total Organic Carbon removal…", "press": "Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor the water department's Policies & Procedures sheet gives a service pressure or describes pressure zones, and none of the council minutes…", "rate": { "g": 19.43, "n": "Kelleys Island Water Department Policies & Procedures, updated 10/24/2024. Bills go out quarterly in January, April, July and October, due 30 days after the end of the cycle. Base…", "m": 101.87 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "57.8", "ppb", "MCL 80", "2025", "Range of detections 32.70-78.9 ppb; disinfection by-product. No violation." ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "20.55", "ppb", "MCL 60", "2025", "Range 7.4-27.4 ppb. Subject to a Q1 2025 monitoring violation (a paperwork/sampling failure, not an exceedance) after…" ], [ "Total Chlorine", "1.49", "ppm", "MRDL 4", "2025", "Range 1.17-1.89 ppm; residual disinfectant. Omitted from the earlier draft." ], [ "Nitrate (as Nitrogen)", "0.47", "ppm", "MCL 10", "2025", "Range 0-1.41 ppm; well below the MCL." ], [ "Barium", "0.014", "ppm", "MCL 2", "2025", "Range 0.014-0.014 ppm. Omitted from the earlier draft." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.1", "ppm", "MCL 4", "2025", "Range 0.1-0.1 ppm. Notably low -- roughly a tenth of the level at fluoridating systems like New London and Millersport.…" ], [ "Turbidity", "0.11", "NTU…", "TT: 0.3 NTU in…", "2025", "The CCR's table gives level found 0.08 NTU with a range of 0.02-0.11; the narrative box gives the highest result as…" ], [ "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)", "1.52", "ratio…", "TT: value…", "2025", "Range 1.2-2.1. In compliance." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0", "ppb", "AL 15", "2025", "0 of 10 sites over the action level. No lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or unknown-status service lines in the…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "174", "ppb (see…", "AL 1.3 ppm", "2025", "The CCR prints the 90th-percentile value as 174 in a row labelled ppm with an action level of 1.3 ppm, which cannot be…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Raw water intake project (failure, emergency bypass and repair)", null, "2025", "under construction", "The intake pipe failed in 2025 and the village kept water flowing with a portable bypass pump, drawing Ohio EPA Notices of Violation dated September 18 and…" ], [ "Water loss audit (third round) with ARCAP", null, "2025", "under construction", "Village reported to council on October 11, 2025 that it was in the third round of its water loss audit with ARCAP, funded by an Ohio EPA grant. No cost or…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Kelleys Island Sanitary Improvements Project -- Phase 1 (gravity sewers, central pump station, new WWTP)", 8000000, "2026", "planned", "Preliminary Phase 1 cost of approximately $8 million per K.E. McCartney & Associates' October 15, 2025 public meeting presentation, depending on funding and…" ] ], "stress": "The entire island depends on a single Lake Erie surface intake, and that intake failed in 2025 -- the only way the village could keep water flowing was a portable bypass pump that itself drew two Ohio EPA Notices of Violation. There is no second source, no wells, and no purchased water. Ohio EPA treats all surface water as susceptible…", "sew": { "s": "No centralized municipal sewer system and no village wastewater treatment plant. Several small package plants serve the downtown, condominiums, and large businesses, parks and camps under 12 individual NPDES permits -- the engineer's October 2025 presentation lists the State Park campground and Camp Patmos at 20,000 gpd each, West Bay…", "st": "No dedicated stormwater utility or fee appears in the village's published water department fee schedule. Heavy rains in early July 2026 caused significant flooding across the island, severely flooding the EMS training and storage rooms and damaging water…" }, "fun": [ "The island's raw water intake reaches 600 feet out into Lake Erie. When it failed in 2025 the village kept water flowing by rigging a portable bypass pump -- which itself became an Ohio EPA Notice of Violation, twice.", "A peer-reviewed survey of cyanobacterial toxins in the Laurentian Great Lakes (Miller et al., Marine Drugs, 2017) listed the Kelleys Island plant among systems where microcystin turned up in finished, already-treated…", "Kelleys Island has a municipal water system serving over 800 homes and businesses -- and no municipal sewer at all. More than 550 septic systems and a dozen separately permitted package plants handle the island's…", "A drinking water violation here can be a weather problem: the village's Q1 2025 HAA5 monitoring violation happened because the samples froze and there was no flying weather to get a replacement off the island in time.", "Residential water runs $14.53 per 100 cubic feet -- about $19.43 per 1,000 gallons -- roughly four times what a New London resident pays in the equivalent tier, and it is billed only four times a year." ], "src": { "history": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5484110/", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/10-11-2025-Meeting-Minutes.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/11-8-2025-Meeting-Minutes.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "https://kelleysisland.us/departments-2/water-sewer-trash/" ], "pressure": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WATER-DEPARTMENT-POLICIES-updated-10.24.24.pdf" ], "rates": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WATER-DEPARTMENT-POLICIES-updated-10.24.24.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf" ], "projects": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/10-11-2025-Meeting-Minutes.pdf" ], "planned": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KI-Sanitary-System-Presentation-Public-Meeting-10-15-25.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/KI-Sanitary-Improvements-Update-Flyer-3-2-26.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/11-8-2025-Meeting-Minutes.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5484110/", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KI-Sanitary-System-Presentation-Public-Meeting-10-15-25.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/7-11-2026-Meeting-Minutes.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://kelleysisland.us/departments-2/water-sewer-trash/", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KI-Sanitary-System-Presentation-Public-Meeting-10-15-25.pdf", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/7-11-2026-Meeting-Minutes.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf", "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5484110/", "https://kelleysisland.us/departments-2/water-sewer-trash/", "http://kelleysisland.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WATER-DEPARTMENT-POLICIES-updated-10.24.24.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43438", "share": 0.6523, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH2201111.jpg", "caption": "Water tower on Kelleys Island, Ohio", "credit": "Mbrickn", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2201111/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH2201111.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), \"Kelleys Island Village · OH2201111\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2201111/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }