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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH4301611",
  "name": "Painesville City",
  "county": "Lake",
  "population": 31728,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "erie",
  "label": "Lake Erie",
  "bodies": [
    "Lake Erie"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Painesville Lake Erie Intak",
    "Painesville Lake Erie Int"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Two own intakes both draw from Lake Erie; matches SDWIS SW hypothesis.",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.painesville.com/departments/water/"
  ],
  "chain": [
    "OH4301611"
  ],
  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Painesville City Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "Lake Erie shoreline in Painesville Township, west of Headlands Beach and east of Fairport Harbor, Painesville, OH 44077",
      "la": 41.7531,
      "lo": -81.2954,
      "pt": "plant",
      "wb": "Lake Erie",
      "src": "Lake Erie, drawn through a new 4,000-foot microtunneled intake (completed 2020) extending from the Painesville-area shoreline, replacing the city's older nearshore crib",
      "cls": "erie",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "New Lake Erie intake (2020)",
          "wb": "Lake Erie",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "36-inch microtunneled line to a crib about 4,000 ft offshore in 27-28 ft of water, less prone to algae",
          "la": 41.7655,
          "lo": -81.2955,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Old 36-inch Lake Erie intake (1951)",
          "wb": "Lake Erie",
          "role": "backup",
          "src": "1951 pipe, now drawn through a repaired inspection port ~1,200 ft offshore, kept as the second source",
          "la": 41.758,
          "lo": -81.295,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1896",
        "Painesville's water treatment plant was established, drawing from Lake Erie."
      ],
      [
        "1913",
        "A 24-inch intake extending 1,200 feet into Lake Erie was built; it was abandoned in 2010 after sand and zebra mussel infestation."
      ],
      [
        "2008",
        "A Water Pollution Control Loan Fund upgrade improved aeration control, clarifiers, tertiary filtration, grit removal and odor control at the WPCP."
      ],
      [
        "2020",
        "A new 60-inch intake extending 4,000 feet into Lake Erie came online; divers capped the 1950s 36-inch intake in January 2021."
      ],
      [
        "2021",
        "A powdered activated carbon feed able to dose over 40 ppm at full 7.5 MGD capacity went online in July to remove algal toxins."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Lake Erie water treated at the 7.5 MGD Headlands Road plant (3.43 MGD average in 2025): filtration, chlorine disinfection, fluoridation and TOC removal for byproduct control, plus a powdered activated carbon feed added in 2021 to strip algal toxins.",
    "press": "No psi published; four pressure zones span ground elevations of 583-1,150 feet, served by three towers, a standpipe, an above-ground tank and five pump stations.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 4.43,
      "n": "2026 in-city rate $3.31 per 100 cubic feet (748 gal), unchanged from 2025; outside city $4.93. Plus a $14.00 monthly improvement fee on a 5/8-inch meter.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "51.8",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Chlorination byproduct; quarterly sampling, range 20.9-61.9 ppb; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "23.1",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Chlorination byproduct; range 10.8-28.7 ppb; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.71",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Monthly sampling; range 0.0-0.71 ppm, well under the MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.00",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Added for dental health; range 0.79-1.01 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine (residual disinfectant)",
        "1.47",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Continuous monitoring; range 1.29-1.54 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.20",
        "NTU",
        "0.3 (TT)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.03-0.20 NTU, highest single reading 0.23; 100% of samples met the limit."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2024",
        "30 samples; all below the 2 ppb detection limit, 0 of 30 above the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.09",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (action…",
        "2024",
        "30 samples; none exceeded the action level."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "New 60-inch Lake Erie raw water intake",
        null,
        "2020",
        "completed",
        "Extends 4,000 feet into Lake Erie for redundancy and algal-bloom protection; a 2015 Ohio EPA fact sheet estimated $10-12M on a 0% WSRLA loan."
      ],
      [
        "Powdered activated carbon feed system",
        null,
        "2021",
        "completed",
        "Online July 2021; doses over 40 ppm at the plant's full 7.5 MGD capacity to remove algal toxins from Lake Erie influent."
      ],
      [
        "Water Pollution Control Plant tertiary and aeration upgrade",
        null,
        "2008",
        "completed",
        "Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund financed clarifier mechanisms, filter media, aeration and grit controls, polymer feed, generator and odor control."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine room reconstruction, Phase 1",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Phase 1 finished in 2025 alongside installation of the #6 high-service pump natural gas engine and a sludge truck replacement."
      ],
      [
        "West Eagle and East Walnut Street water main replacements",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Distribution renewal completed in 2025 along with structural steel repairs and painting of the Crile water tower."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Lake Erie is not scarcity-limited, but harmful algal blooms have reached the Headlands Beach area, driving the deeper 4,000-foot intake and the 2021 powdered carbon system; no microcystins were detected in 2025. Sand, zebra mussels and frazil ice fouled the earlier intakes.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City-run Water Pollution Control Plant at 1170 N. State St. serves about 20,000 people in five stages - preliminary, primary, secondary, tertiary sand filtration and disinfection - discharging to the Grand River, and has taken trucked septage since 2004. No CSO or consent decree found.",
      "st": "not documented in sources reviewed"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Painesville's water plant is not in Painesville: it sits at 9565 Headlands Road in Mentor, off Titus Beach between Headlands State Park and the Mentor Marsh.",
      "In 2025 the system pumped 1.253 billion gallons through 157 miles of main, averaging 3.43 million gallons a day for about 35,000 people.",
      "Since October 2023 Painesville has supplied all of the drinking water for the Fairport Harbor public water system.",
      "The original 1913 intake was abandoned in 2010 after sand and zebra mussels clogged it, and divers capped its 1950s successor in January 2021."
    ]
  },
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    "url": "/photos/OH4301611.jpg",
    "caption": "The Grand River in downtown Painesville, Ohio",
    "credit": "Tim Kiser",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
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