{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH3100512", "name": "Cleves Village", "county": "Hamilton", "population": 6000, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 3, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH3100512" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "2014", "April 7: Ohio EPA issued an environmental assessment and draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the Village of Cleves Elizabethtown Water Mains, Phase 3." ], [ "2015", "June 2: Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and final Finding of No Significant Impact for the Jackson/Hooven/East State/St Annes water main projects, WSRLA loan FS390264-0017." ], [ "2015", "May: the Cleves Board of Public Affairs, which had run the waterworks, was dissolved; administration passed to the village administrator, the mayor, and village council." ], [ "2015", "October 14: Ordinance 15-2015 established the codified water rate schedule still in the code." ], [ "2025", "Ordinance 08-2025 applied an 8% water rate increase retroactive to April 1, 2025, and set a further 5% increase for January 1, 2026." ], [ "2025", "December 12: Ohio EPA recorded an informal enforcement action against the system; EPA's database shows unresolved monitoring and reporting violations under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions and the…" ] ], "treat": "Cleves supplies its own water from three groundwater wells at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County - outside the village. EPA's SDWIS record classifies the system as ground water, community, locally owned, serving about 6,000 people. The village publishes no description of its…", "press": "Not published. No pressure or system-hydraulics figures appear on the village waterworks page or in its codified ordinances.", "rate": { "g": 3.65, "n": "Codified at Cleves Code of Ordinances Sec. 50.01 (2026 S-1), billed in gallons, not cubic feet. Village accounts, monthly: 2,000-gallon minimum $13.72, then $3.65 per 1,000…", "m": 21.02 }, "imp": [], "proj": [ [ "Jackson/Hooven/East State/St Annes water main projects (WSRLA loan FS390264-0017)", null, "2015", "unknown", "Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and final FONSI on June 2, 2015. The village's own link to the document now returns 404 and no cost, scope, or…" ], [ "Elizabethtown Water Mains, Phase 3", null, "2014", "unknown", "Ohio EPA environmental assessment and draft FONSI dated April 7, 2014. The village's link to the document now returns 404; scope, cost, and completion…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Groundwater from a three-well field at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township, near the Great Miami/Ohio River confluence area. The village obtained grant funding through the Miami Valley Conservancy District, with Brandstetter Carroll Inc., to develop a source water protection plan for the three wells; the plan document linked from the…", "sew": { "s": "Not a village utility. The village directs sewer backups to the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati call center (513-352-4900); MSD is the county-wide wastewater utility. No Cleves-specific treatment plant, capacity, receiving stream, or rate information is published by the village.", "st": "Not documented. No storm water utility or fee appears in the village's ordinances or on its waterworks page." }, "fun": [ "All three of Cleves' municipal wells sit outside the village, at 4545 Kilby Road in Whitewater Township.", "North Bend customers get their own rate class in the Cleves code, priced between the village rate and the general outside-village rate.", "Every water document linked from the village's own waterworks page - the source water protection plan and both Ohio EPA project notices - now returns a 404.", "Cleves' rate code lists more than forty separate billing classes by meter size, unit count, and billing cycle for a system serving about 6,000 people." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks", "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/clevesoh/latest/cleves_oh/0-0-0-631", "https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=OH3100512" ], "treatment": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks", "https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=OH3100512" ], "rates": [ "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/clevesoh/latest/cleves_oh/0-0-0-631" ], "projects": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks" ], "water_stress": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks", "https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=OH3100512" ], "sewer": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://cleves.org/content/cleves-waterworks", "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/clevesoh/latest/cleves_oh/0-0-0-631" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45033", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "45052", "share": 0.5141, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "45001", "share": 0.4293, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "45002", "share": 0.3585, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "45030", "share": 0.0146, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH3100512.jpg", "caption": "Aerial view of Cleves, Ohio, looking northeast", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3100512/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH3100512.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), \"Cleves Village · OH3100512\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3100512/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }