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  "name": "Steubenville, City Of",
  "county": "Jefferson",
  "population": 17000,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "ohio",
  "label": "Ohio River",
  "bodies": [
    "Ohio River"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Steubenville Ohio River Int"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
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    {
      "n": "Steubenville City Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH, on the Ohio River (exact street address not verified)",
      "la": 40.3695,
      "lo": -80.6293,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Ohio River",
      "src": "Ohio River water drawn at the city's riverfront intake in Steubenville",
      "cls": "ohio"
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    "hist": [
      [
        "2007",
        "City commissioned a Superpulsator (solids-contact clarifier) filtration plant on University Blvd in August 2007, described by the city as 'the only one of its kind in the State of Ohio at this time.'"
      ],
      [
        "2018",
        "City unveiled a five-year rate increase plan raising the average combined water/sewer/sanitation bill $40.04 in October 2018, with the minimum monthly bill rising from $68.82 to $92.52 by October…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Steubenville recorded a turbidity treatment-technique violation on January 16 (1.488 NTU, above the 1.0 NTU maximum) and a separate monitoring violation for failing to sample for cyanobacteria the…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "City advertised bids for roughly $20.4 million in filtration plant upgrades — a fourth Superpulsator, a fifth filter and a major SCADA replacement — with construction expected to start in 2026 and…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Ohio River water is drawn at the city's raw water pumping station and intakes at Ohio River mile marker 65.3, pumped from the Alikanna Pump Station to a 6-million-gallon reservoir at the Filtration Plant, 1575 University Blvd. The plant is a Superpulsator (solids-contact clarifier) facility…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the city water department page nor the 2024 CCR states system pressure, and no pressure figure should be inferred.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 16.27,
      "n": "WATER (city Utility Collection Office): $23.35 for the first 1,000 gallons, $16.27 for each additional 1,000 gallons, plus a $13.00 water infrastructure fee. Published minimum…",
      "m": 52.62
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "1.488",
        "NTU",
        "TT — must not…",
        "2024",
        "VIOLATION. Highest 2024 reading, recorded 1/16/2024 at 5:45am; 99.6% of monthly samples still met the turbidity…"
      ],
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "49.1",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2024",
        "Disinfection by-product; range 8.5-79.7, with the high end approaching the MCL. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "32.8",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2024",
        "Disinfection by-product; range 9.2-49.7. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "1.81",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2024",
        "Disinfectant residual; range 1.23-2.00. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "3.72",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2024",
        "Runoff from fertilizer use; range 0.58-3.72. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.02",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2024",
        "Water additive plus natural erosion; range 0.20-1.11. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.031",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2024",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling waste. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Total Organic Carbon",
        "1.35",
        "ppm",
        "TT",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.57-1.94. Precursor to disinfection by-products. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th pct)",
        "2.24",
        "ppb",
        "15 (AL)",
        "2022",
        "0 of 39 sites above the action level; range 0-10.3. City is on reduced triannual sampling; next round 2025."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th pct)",
        "0.207",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (AL)",
        "2022",
        "0 of 39 sites above the action level; range 0.007-0.721."
      ]
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    "proj": [
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        "Filtration plant upgrades, Phase Two (fourth Superpulsator, fifth filter, SCADA replacement)",
        20400000,
        "2025",
        "planned",
        "Advertised for bids through November 7, 2025 with a November 13 pre-bid meeting; about $19M construction and the balance engineering. Design roughly 95%…"
      ],
      [
        "West End water system connection",
        16400000,
        "2025",
        "under construction",
        "New pump station at Tweed Avenue and a 400,000-gallon tank near County Road 26 and Lovers Lane, routing water from the downtown plant via Lincoln Avenue, Coal…"
      ],
      [
        "Wintersville emergency water line interconnection",
        650000,
        "2025",
        "planned",
        "Fully funded by an Ohio EPA award, at no cost to either municipality; in design as of September 2025."
      ],
      [
        "Industrial bulk water filling station",
        null,
        "2025",
        "under construction",
        "Near State Route 7 and the ODOT salt barn; excavation underway September 2025, prefabricated building due within 4-5 weeks. Intended to enable bulk water sales…"
      ],
      [
        "Historic filtration plant demolition",
        null,
        "2025",
        "planned",
        "The former filtration plant on University Boulevard near Belleview Park is slated for demolition, with efforts to preserve historical features and signage. No…"
      ],
      [
        "2025 Draft Long Term Control Plan (LTCP), Volumes I and II",
        null,
        "2025",
        "planned",
        "Draft LTCP and Volume II (Appendices), both dated January 1, 2025, posted on the city wastewater department page addressing combined sewer overflows. A 2025…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Long Term Control Plan implementation (combined sewer overflow controls)",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "The city's draft 2025 LTCP indicates a CSO control program is being developed. No implementation schedule or cost is published in the sources reachable; do not…"
      ],
      [
        "Filtration plant Phase Two construction",
        20400000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Construction anticipated to start spring or summer 2026 and run up to two years, contingent on Ohio EPA approval and a low-interest loan."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "The Ohio River is a large, non-drought-limited source, so Steubenville faces no quantity constraint — but the city's own 2024 CCR states the opposite of a clean bill on quality: 'the drinking water supplied to the City of Steubenville public water supply system is considered to have a high susceptibility to contamination.' The CCR names…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The city's own Wastewater Treatment Plant at 100 North Water St. is an activated-sludge plant with a design average daily flow of 6 MGD. It provides both primary and secondary treatment for flows up to 13.5 MGD and is capable of treating up to 36 MGD in wet weather, with flows between 13.5 and 36 MGD receiving primary treatment only…",
      "st": "Storm and sanitary flows are combined in parts of the system — the city's wastewater page posts a 2025 Draft Long Term Control Plan (Volumes I and II, dated January 1, 2025) addressing combined sewer overflows, plus a 2025 SSO WIB Report. No separate…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Steubenville's Superpulsator filtration plant, commissioned in August 2007, is described by the city as the only facility of its kind in the State of Ohio.",
      "The wastewater plant can treat six times its design average flow in a storm — 6 MGD normally, up to 36 MGD in wet weather — but everything above 13.5 MGD gets primary treatment only before it reaches the Ohio River.",
      "Steubenville draws its drinking water from the same river its treated wastewater returns to; the city's own water quality report lists combined sewer overflows and municipal wastewater discharges among the threats to…",
      "The intake has a street address of sorts: the raw water pumping station sits at Ohio River mile marker 65.3.",
      "In June 2024 the city simply missed a week of required cyanobacteria screening, earning a Tier 3 monitoring violation printed inside its own annual water quality report."
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        "https://cms8.revize.com/revize/steubenvilleoh/Document_Center/Department/Water/CCR%202024%20Steubenville.pdf",
        "https://wtov9.com/news/local/steubenville-seeks-bids-for-204m-water-plant-upgrades-new-tech-aims-for-cleaner-water-steubenville-water-plant-upgrades-super-pulsator-scada-filtration-construction-water-treatment"
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        "https://cityofsteubenville.us/government/departments/wastewater.php",
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