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  "name": "Napoleon City",
  "county": "Henry",
  "population": 8858,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Maumee River (with Wauseon reservoirs as backup/blend storage)",
  "bodies": [
    "Maumee River"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Wauseon MG Reservoir",
    "Maumee River"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Napoleon's own intakes draw from the Maumee River; the city also has a pipeline to Wauseon's reservoirs used as an emergency/backup source (e.g., during the 2026 fertilizer spill) and sometimes blended in.",
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Napoleon Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "255 West Riverview Ave, Napoleon, OH 43545",
      "la": 41.3918,
      "lo": -84.1258,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Maumee River",
      "src": "Maumee River (with Wauseon reservoirs as backup/blend storage)",
      "cls": "river",
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        {
          "n": "Maumee River Crib",
          "wb": "Maumee River",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "In-river crib intake on the Maumee River at the West Riverview plant site, opposite Haley St, built 1992",
          "la": 41.3918,
          "lo": -84.1258,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Maumee River Shore Intake",
          "wb": "Maumee River",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Shoreline intake/pump structure alongside the river crib intake at the West Riverview plant, feeding the low-service pumps",
          "la": 41.3918,
          "lo": -84.1258,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Wauseon 50 MG Reservoir",
          "wb": "Wauseon Upground Reservoir (50-acre impoundment)",
          "role": "backup",
          "src": "One of two Wauseon upground reservoirs connected to Napoleon by an underground pipeline; used when Maumee River water quality is unsuitable",
          "la": 41.44,
          "lo": -84.14,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Wauseon 300 MG Reservoir",
          "wb": "Wauseon Upground Reservoir (second impoundment)",
          "role": "backup",
          "src": "Second Wauseon upground reservoir on the same interconnected pipeline supplying Napoleon as a river-quality backup source",
          "la": 41.44,
          "lo": -84.14,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1992",
        "City installed its current Maumee River raw-water intake facility on West Riverview Ave."
      ],
      [
        "1997-1998",
        "$3.8 million wastewater plant expansion raised peak hydraulic capacity to 7.5 MGD."
      ],
      [
        "2010",
        "2.5 million-gallon equalization basin and UV disinfection units added at the wastewater plant to capture and treat wet-weather/combined-sewer flow."
      ],
      [
        "2015-2018",
        "Three-year, $17.8 million rehabilitation converted the lime-soda softening plant to a nanofiltration/reverse-osmosis membrane softening facility with UV disinfection; completed fall 2018."
      ],
      [
        "2021-2025",
        "Multi-year, roughly $12 million renovation of the wastewater treatment plant (new headworks building, third primary settling tank, recirculation building and pumps, screw presses) completed…"
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "A July liquid-fertilizer (ammonia) release into Huston Creek in Flatrock Township, followed by failure of containment dams on July 11, killed an estimated 18,000-20,000 fish over about 11 miles of…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Surface water from a Maumee River intake. Pretreatment with sodium permanganate and carbon in contact basins; coagulation with aluminum chlorohydrate; four-stage vertical flocculation; sedimentation with plate settlers; rapid sand filters; 1-micron cartridge filters; nanofiltration and…",
    "press": "Not published. System storage is two underground clearwells (150,000 and 1,000,000 gallons) plus a north tower (750,000 gallons) and a south tower (200,000 gallons), with three…",
    "rate": {
      "g": 12.93,
      "n": "Codified Ordinance 931.07 (Ord. 086-20, passed 2-1-21), rate steps effective through the 2024 schedule, which the code library shows as current: inside-corporation commodity…",
      "m": 66.22
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "60.93",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "range of detections 22.90-78.6 ppb; no violation, but the highest single result is close to the standard"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "16.08",
        "ppb",
        "60 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "range printed as 6.2-15.8 ppb; no violation"
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "6.85",
        "ppm",
        "10 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "range 0.028-6.85 ppm; peak is about two-thirds of the standard, reflecting Maumee River farm runoff"
      ],
      [
        "Atrazine",
        "0.64",
        "ppb",
        "3 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "range 0-0.64 ppb; runoff from row-crop herbicide"
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.12",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "range 0.96-1.12 ppm; added for dental health"
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.030",
        "ppm",
        "2 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "range 0-0.030 ppm"
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine",
        "1.55",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm MRDL",
        "2025",
        "range 1.37-1.72 ppm"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.021",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm action…",
        "2025",
        "range 0-0.041 ppm; 0 of 20 sites above the action level"
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "<2",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 20 sites above the action level"
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.11",
        "NTU",
        "0.3 NTU in 95%…",
        "2025",
        "highest recorded 0.11 NTU; 100% of monthly samples met the limit"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Water treatment plant conversion to reverse-osmosis/nanofiltration membrane softening with UV",
        17800000,
        "2015-2018",
        "completed",
        "Three-phase rehabilitation of the former lime-soda softening plant; cost reported at the 2019 unveiling."
      ],
      [
        "Wastewater treatment plant 2.5 MG equalization basin, 30 MGD screw pump station, 10 MGD UV disinfection and…",
        null,
        "2010",
        "completed",
        "Ohio EPA-mandated wet-weather storage that allows combined-sewer overflow to receive primary-equivalent treatment and UV rather than going straight to the…"
      ],
      [
        "Wastewater treatment plant renovation (headworks building, third primary settling tank, recirculation…",
        12000000,
        "2021-2025",
        "completed",
        "Construction began June 2021; cost reported by local press (Northwest Signal); the article itself was rate-limited during verification, so treat the figure as…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA treats all Ohio surface water as highly susceptible to contamination, and Napoleon's CCR says the drinking water source protection area contains agriculture, septic systems, oil and gas activity, combined sewer overflows, wastewater discharges, roadways and railways. The practical exposure is upstream events on the Maumee: the…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City wastewater treatment plant at 735 E. Washington St., built 1958 and rehabilitated in 1982, expanded in 1997-98 for $3.8 million. Average daily flow 2.6 MGD, maximum daily 4.7 MGD, peak hydraulic capacity 7.5 MGD. Treatment is screening, primary settling, two 55-foot trickling-filter biotowers, three final settling tanks (761,240…",
      "st": "Partly combined: the city's west and south sides have combined sewers, and Napoleon files an annual combined sewer overflow public notification report with Ohio EPA. The 2.5 MG equalization basin with integrated 10 MGD UV lets overflow be treated instead of…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Napoleon's plant pumped 388 million gallons of raw Maumee River water uphill to the Wauseon reservoir in 2025 - and the pipe can be reversed to pull that stored water back by gravity when the river is unusable, which is…",
      "The city's water plant is one of fewer than ten in Ohio using ultraviolet disinfection, added as part of the 2015-2018 conversion to reverse-osmosis membrane softening.",
      "Campbell's largest soup plant is in Napoleon, turning out more than 619 million cans of soup, 678 million containers of V8 and 136 million jars of Prego and Pace a year.",
      "A July 2026 fertilizer and ammonia spill upstream on Huston Creek killed an estimated 18,000-20,000 fish along about 11 miles of the Maumee - the same river the city drinks from - after bacteria consuming the ammonia…"
    ],
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        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/departments/waste-water-treatment",
        "https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/napoleon-unveils-their-new-water-treatment-facility-after-178-million-in-upgrades/512-1d0d2d18-275a-4c3b-ad1f-e8c722c31033",
        "https://www.northwestsignal.net/news/article_3bf77e34-e8ae-11ef-b224-f72d6efd5d3c.html"
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        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/application/files/9217/7851/1063/2025_CCR_Revised.pdf"
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      "pressure": [
        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/departments/water-treatment-plant"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/napolean/latest/napoleon_oh/0-0-0-32228",
        "https://www.northwestsignal.net/news/article_477273bc-6efc-11ef-8fa9-abdde392b73a.html"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/application/files/9217/7851/1063/2025_CCR_Revised.pdf"
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      "projects": [
        "https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/napoleon-unveils-their-new-water-treatment-facility-after-178-million-in-upgrades/512-1d0d2d18-275a-4c3b-ad1f-e8c722c31033",
        "https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/w/wastewater-treatment-plant-napoleon",
        "https://www.northwestsignal.net/news/article_3bf77e34-e8ae-11ef-b224-f72d6efd5d3c.html",
        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/departments/waste-water-treatment"
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      "water_stress": [
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        "https://www.northwestsignal.net/news/article_0fd91c45-9754-4ed3-a33c-701bc8363275.html",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/tmdl/MaumeeNutrient/MaumeeTMDL-OfficialDraft.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/departments/waste-water-treatment",
        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/application/files/4317/1406/0105/Annual_CSO_Public_Notification_Report_2023.pdf",
        "https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/w/wastewater-treatment-plant-napoleon"
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        "https://www.napoleonohio.com/departments/water-treatment-plant",
        "https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/news/campbell-soup-company-mm-mm-green-food-manufacturing/",
        "https://www.toledoblade.com/local/environment/2026/07/13/large-fish-kill-in-maumee-river-traced-back-to-fertilizer-spill/stories/20260713083"
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