{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH3900011", "name": "Bellevue City", "county": "Huron", "population": 8236, "producer": true, "source_class": "erie", "label": "Frink Run & Berry Creek/Big Ditch runoff (own reservoirs); backup Lake Erie via Erie Co.", "bodies": [ "Frink Run", "Berry Creek (Big Ditch)", "Bellevue Reservoirs 1/3/4/5" ], "intakes": [ "Reservoir", "Frink Run", "Big Ditch", "Miller/berry Ditch" ], "wells": 0, "aquifer": "", "notes": "Bellevue impounds Frink Run and Berry Creek runoff into 5 reservoirs (Big Ditch feeds Reservoir 3) for its own surface-water treatment plant; it also purchases backup water from Erie County (Perkins District), which is Lake Erie water via Sandusky's Big Island plant.", "urls": [ "https://thenewcityofbellevue.com/water-treatment-plant/", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php" ], "chain": [ "OH3900011" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Bellevue Water Treatment Plant", "a": "Bellevue, OH 44811 (Huron County)", "la": 41.2739, "lo": -82.8385, "pt": "approximate", "wb": "Frink Run", "src": "Frink Run & Berry Creek/Big Ditch runoff (own reservoirs); backup Lake Erie via Erie Co.", "cls": "erie", "in": [ { "n": "Frink Run Pump Intake", "wb": "Frink Run", "role": "primary", "src": "Pump intake on Frink Run about 5 miles southeast of the plant along OH-547; water passes a traveling screen into a wet well pumped via a 30-inch line to Reservoir No. 5", "la": 41.2147, "lo": -82.7766, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "Reservoir No. 5", "wb": "Off-stream reservoir filled from Frink Run", "role": "storage", "src": "700-million-gallon upground reservoir built 1946, ~5 miles SE of the plant, storing pumped Frink Run water and supplying it onward to the plant", "la": 41.2147, "lo": -82.7766, "pt": "intake" }, { "n": "Big Ditch Gravity Intake", "wb": "Big Ditch", "role": "secondary", "src": "Gravity-fed inflow from Big Ditch into Reservoir No. 3, immediately east of the filtration plant", "la": 41.2703, "lo": -82.8254, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "Reservoir No. 3", "wb": "Off-stream reservoir filled from Big Ditch", "role": "storage", "src": "75-million-gallon reservoir built 1900, adjacent to and east of the filtration plant", "la": 41.2703, "lo": -82.8254, "pt": "intake" }, { "n": "Miller/Berry Ditch Intake", "wb": "Miller Ditch / Berry Ditch", "role": "secondary", "src": "Combined Miller Ditch and Berry Ditch inflow into Reservoir No. 4, along with water passed over from Reservoir No. 5", "la": 41.2624, "lo": -82.8217, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "Reservoir No. 4", "wb": "Off-stream reservoir fed by Reservoir No. 5, Miller Ditch and Berry Ditch", "role": "storage", "src": "150-million-gallon reservoir built 1919, half a mile southeast of the plant along Monroe Street", "la": 41.2624, "lo": -82.8217, "pt": "intake" } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1872", "Bellevue's municipal water system began, drawing untreated deep well water." ], [ "1937", "The present surface-water filtration plant was put into operation, treating impounded Frink Run and Berry Creek runoff." ], [ "1955-2010", "The 1937 plant was upgraded repeatedly - the city lists work in 1955, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1985, 2002 and 2010." ], [ "1969", "Bellevue's Water Pollution Control (wastewater) plant was constructed." ], [ "1988", "First expansion of the wastewater treatment plant." ], [ "1994", "Second expansion of the wastewater treatment plant; design flow now 2.0 MGD." ] ], "treat": "Surface water impounded from city reservoirs fed by Frink Run and Berry Creek is treated at a plant with 3.0 MGD capacity. The 2025 CCR describes the process as lime softening, coagulation, sedimentation, stabilization, fluoridation, sand filtration and disinfection. The plant page lists the…", "press": "About 65 psi average static pressure, across a distribution system of more than 47 miles of 4-inch to 12-inch main with 432 fire hydrants and three elevated tanks holding 1.3…", "rate": { "g": 9.11, "n": "Ordinance 20-20 schedule in effect for 2025. Water is billed per cubic foot, not per 1,000 gallons: $0.068136 per cf above a 200 cf minimum, with a minimum water charge of $20.44…", "m": 57.36 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "68.75", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Running annual average. Individual results ranged 9.8-133 ppb, so single samples exceeded the 80 ppb MCL even though…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "23.65", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 6.3-40.2." ], [ "Chlorine (as total Cl2)", "1.92", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.61-2.23." ], [ "Nitrate", "3.93", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Range 0-3.93. The one constituent Bellevue's CCR says the system has not always treated to standard historically." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.9", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Range 0.73-1.09." ], [ "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)", "2.46", "ratio", "TT (must exceed…", "2025", "Range 2.04-2.72; compliant with TOC removal requirements." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.07", "NTU", "0.3 in 95% of…", "2025", "Highest single reading; range 0.02-0.07; 100% of samples met the limit." ], [ "Atrazine", "0.086", "ppb", "3", "2025", "Runoff from herbicide used on row crops." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 20 samples over the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.03", "ppm", "1.3 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 20 samples over the action level." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Water treatment plant modernization program", null, "2010", "completed", "The 1937 plant has been upgraded repeatedly - the city lists work in 1955, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1985, 2002 and 2010. No costs published." ], [ "Water Pollution Control Facility expansions", null, "1994", "completed", "Wastewater plant built 1969, expanded 1988 and 1994; design flow now 2.0 MGD. No costs published." ], [ "Water main replacement projects", null, "2025", "completed", "The 2025 CCR reports water main replacement projects were completed. No scope or cost published." ] ], "plan": [ [ "Water meter change-out program", null, "2025", "under construction", "The 2025 CCR states the meter change-out program 'is being completed.' No cost published." ], [ "Lead service line inventory completion", null, "2025", "under construction", "The city maintains an online service line inventory map and is still collecting resident service-line forms; USEPA requires 100% known service line materials.…" ] ], "stress": "Bellevue's own supply is small and weather-exposed: it impounds runoff from Frink Run and Berry Creek - Berry Creek lies entirely within a karst limestone region, so part of its flow originates as groundwater - into up-ground reservoirs behind a 3.0 MGD plant. The city buys 200,000 gallons or more a day of Lake Erie water from Erie…", "sew": { "s": "The City of Bellevue operates its own Water Pollution Control Facility, built in 1969 and expanded in 1988 and 1994: design flow 2.0 MGD, average daily flow 1.1 MGD, 24-hour peak flow 5.6 MGD. Treatment is bar screening, grit removal, primary clarification, activated sludge, nitrification towers, final clarification and UV disinfection…", "st": "No stormwater utility fee, combined sewer overflow program or separate storm sewer detail was found on the city's public pages." }, "fun": [ "Bellevue does not sit on a river or a lake - it built its own supply: city reservoirs holding roughly a billion gallons, filled by runoff from Frink Run and Berry Creek. (The city's plant page counts five reservoirs…", "Berry Creek runs entirely through karst limestone, so part of what Bellevue treats as surface water actually surfaced from underground first.", "The filtration plant in use today opened in 1937 and has been rebuilt piecemeal at least eight times since - 1955, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1985, 2002 and 2010.", "Bellevue buys at least 200,000 gallons a day of Lake Erie water from Erie County, and shuts the valve the moment the county issues a boil alert.", "Bellevue bills water by the cubic foot rather than the thousand gallons: $0.068136 per cubic foot, which works out to about $9.11 per 1,000 gallons." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_pollution_control/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025-Water-Rates.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/Water-and-Sewer-Rates-2025.pdf", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025-Water-Rates.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_pollution_control/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf" ], "planned": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_pollution_control/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/Water-and-Sewer-Rates-2025.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/2025%20CCR%20final%20pdf.pdf", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/departments/public_works/water_treatment_plant/index.php", "https://www.bellevueohio.gov/Documents/Department/Public%20Works/Water%20Treatment%20Plant/Water-and-Sewer-Rates-2025.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44811", "share": 0.6431, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH3900011.jpg", "caption": "Historic postcard view of the reservoir at Bellevue, Ohio", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3900011/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH3900011.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), \"Bellevue City · OH3900011\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3900011/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }