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Detroit St / 1831 US-68 N, Xenia, OH; exact well-field…", "la": 39.705, "lo": -83.928, "pt": "approximate", "wb": "Great Miami/Mad River buried-valley aquifer", "src": "11 wells drawing from two buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifers straddling US-68, north of the Old Town and downtown Xenia area", "cls": "groundwater", "in": [ { "n": "US-68 North Well Field (Oldtown/downtown area)", "wb": "Little Miami River buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer (part of the Great Miami/Little Miami buried valley aquifer system)", "role": "primary", "src": "11 wells across roughly 850 acres straddling US-68 north of Oldtown/downtown Xenia, capable of 11 MGD though typically pumped at 4-5 MGD (11 wells)", "la": 39.705, "lo": -83.928, "pt": "plant", "wells": [ "Well 1", "Well 2", "Well 3", "Well 4", "Well 5", "Well 6", "Well 7", "Well 8", "Well 9", "Well 10", "Well 11" ] } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1803", "Xenia is founded in Greene County; a federal survey team's plat follows the next year (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)." ], [ "1886", "The city builds its first water works system (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited; no primary corroboration found)." ], [ "1900", "The city is operating its own sewage system by this year (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)." ], [ "1942", "The Xenia water works is established as a public municipality; the city says it has been customer-owned ever since." ], [ "1958", "The Glady Run wastewater treatment plant on Bellbrook Avenue is built." ], [ "1971", "The Ford Road wastewater treatment plant is put online." ] ], "treat": "The Xenia Water Treatment Plant at 1831 U.S. 68 North is an iron and manganese removal plant. Groundwater is first aerated to strip naturally occurring hydrogen sulfide and add oxygen, which combines with ionic iron and manganese; the resulting compounds precipitate out in gravity-fed filters; the…", "press": "Not published in any city source found. Neither the Water Treatment Division page nor the 2025 CCR lists pressure zones or psi ranges; the Public Service Department can be reached…", "rate": { "g": 5.91, "n": "City of Xenia Rates and Fee Schedule effective March 1, 2026: water inside the city is $8.87 per 1,500 gallons, which the city itself states as $0.005913 per gallon — $5.91 per…", "m": 23.65 }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "48.7", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Locational running annual average, sampled 8/26/2025; range 15.2-48.7 ppb." ], [ "Total haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "9.80", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Sampled 8/26/2025; range 5.70-9.80 ppb." ], [ "Total chlorine", "1.19", "ppm", "MRDL 4", "2025", "Range 1.09-1.29 ppm." ], [ "Arsenic", "6.80", "ppb", "10", "2023", "Sampled 6/27/2023. The CCR carries the standard arsenic advisory language: the water meets the standard but does…" ], [ "Barium", "0.14", "ppm", "2.0", "2023", "Sampled 6/27/2023." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.23", "ppm", "4.0", "2023", "Naturally occurring; Xenia does not add fluoride." ], [ "Nitrate (as nitrogen)", "1.19", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Sampled 2/12/2025. Nitrate has been detectable in the source water at some level between 1991 and 2025." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.80", "ppb", "action level 15…", "2025", "Sampled 7/1-9/3/2025; 0 of 30 samples over the action level. Note the CCR's two footnotes are swapped — the sentence…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.986", "ppm", "action level…", "2025", "Sampled 7/1-9/3/2025; 1 of 30 samples exceeded the action level, at 1.38 ppm." ], [ "PFAS (PFOA, PFOS, HFPO-DA, PFBS, PFHxS…", "not detected", "ppt", "PFOA and PFOS…", "2025", "All six regulated PFAS were below detection limits in UCMR 5 monitoring." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Current water treatment plant", null, "1982", "completed", "Construction completed 1979, plant placed in service 1982, replacing the original facility of the 1942 municipal water works. No cost published." ], [ "City-wide lead and galvanized service line inventory", null, "2024", "completed", "Required by U.S. EPA. Nearly 500 properties were identified as having lead or galvanized steel service lines and their owners were notified by mail. No cost…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Lead service line replacement program", null, "", "under construction", "Public Service crews have begun replacing service lines within city rights-of-way and easements, from the water main to the first shutoff (usually the meter).…" ] ], "stress": "Ohio EPA's 2006 source water assessment found the aquifer highly susceptible to contamination given the sensitivity of its location and the potential contamination sources identified, and water quality data collected between 1991 and 2025 has shown detectable nitrate. The city runs a source water protection program with Xenia Township…", "sew": { "s": "Xenia operates two of its own wastewater treatment plants. Ford Road WWTP at 779 Ford Road, online in 1971, has a 3.6 MGD design flow and discharges to the Little Miami River; Glady Run WWTP at 2381 Bellbrook Avenue, built in 1958, has a 4.0 MGD design flow and discharges to Glady Run Creek, a Little Miami tributary. Both peak at 12 MGD…", "st": "A stormwater charge of $4.89 a month applies to residential properties of four units or less. Non-residential properties are billed total impervious area divided by 2,900 square feet to get Equivalent Residential Units, times $4.89. Undeveloped parcels are…" }, "fun": [ "Xenia deliberately does not soften its water: it comes out of the tap at roughly 400 mg/L hardness, about 23 grains per gallon.", "The city does not fluoridate either — the fluoride in Xenia's water is entirely natural, at about a fifth of the dose used for cavity prevention.", "The aquifer under Xenia could safely give up 11 million gallons a day; the city only takes 4 to 5 million.", "Xenia's two sewage plants empty into different waters: Ford Road to the Little Miami River, Glady Run to Glady Run Creek.", "Xenia sells water to Central State and Wilberforce universities and to Greene County, not just to its own residents." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia,_Ohio", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/wastewater-treatment-division", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/lead-service-line-replacement-program" ], "treatment": [ "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a83f8bb1-043f-4279-839d-6bf480251cd9/2025-CCR-final.pdf", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/lead-service-line-replacement-program" ], "rates": [ "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a158e95e-076e-4c8e-9ee9-3cf27275be76/Rates_2025_202412230945576453.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a83f8bb1-043f-4279-839d-6bf480251cd9/2025-CCR-final.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/lead-service-line-replacement-program" ], "planned": [ "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/lead-service-line-replacement-program" ], "water_stress": [ "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a83f8bb1-043f-4279-839d-6bf480251cd9/2025-CCR-final.pdf", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/wastewater-treatment-division", "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a158e95e-076e-4c8e-9ee9-3cf27275be76/Rates_2025_202412230945576453.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4479/Xeniacity/a83f8bb1-043f-4279-839d-6bf480251cd9/2025-CCR-final.pdf", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/water-treatment-division", "https://www.cityofxenia.org/o/xeniacity/page/wastewater-treatment-division" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45385", "share": 0.6376, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH2902812.jpg", "caption": "Greene County Courthouse in downtown Xenia, Ohio", "credit": "Dph414", "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2902812/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH2902812.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), \"Xenia City · OH2902812\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2902812/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }