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  "name": "Avon Lake City",
  "county": "Lorain",
  "population": 23659,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "erie",
  "label": "Lake Erie",
  "bodies": [
    "Lake Erie"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Avon Lake Lake Erie"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Avon Lake Regional Water operates two Lake Erie intakes (54\" and 36\") and its filtration plant on the lakeshore; it wholesales to Avon, North Ridgeville, Sheffield/Sheffield Lake, RLCWA, and the City of Medina.",
  "urls": [
    "https://avonlakewater.org/wp-content/uploads/ALRW-Water-Quality-Report-2021.pdf",
    "https://avonlakewater.org/about-us/",
    "https://avonlakewater.org/water-filtration-plant/"
  ],
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    {
      "n": "Avon Lake Regional Water - Water Filtration Plant",
      "a": "33370 Lake Rd, Avon Lake, OH 44012",
      "la": 41.5087,
      "lo": -82.0135,
      "pt": "plant",
      "wb": "Lake Erie",
      "src": "Lake Erie, drawn through 54-inch and 36-inch intake pipes extending offshore from the Avon Lake filtration plant on Lake Road",
      "cls": "erie",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Lake Erie 54-inch intake",
          "wb": "Lake Erie",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Larger of two intake pipes extending offshore from the Avon Lake filtration plant on Lake Road, carrying the bulk of raw lake water to the plant",
          "la": 41.5087,
          "lo": -82.0135,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Lake Erie 36-inch intake",
          "wb": "Lake Erie",
          "role": "secondary",
          "src": "Smaller, older offshore intake pipe at the same plant site, providing redundant/supplemental capacity alongside the 54-inch line",
          "la": 41.5087,
          "lo": -82.0135,
          "pt": "approximate"
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1925",
        "Avon Lake's water system was established with an initial investment of $390,000 (1925 dollars) in land and facilities, serving about 1,200 residents."
      ],
      [
        "1926",
        "The original Lake Erie filtration plant and administration buildings were built on Lake Road with a maximum capacity of 2 million gallons per day."
      ],
      [
        "2017…",
        "Began adding orthophosphate to the finished water for corrosion control, coating pipe interiors to reduce lead and copper leaching."
      ],
      [
        "2017…",
        "A new 3-million-gallon water tower bowl went into service, replacing a 500,000-gallon tank; $8 million, financed by a 0-percent Ohio EPA loan repaid through roughly $4/year per customer."
      ],
      [
        "2018-2019",
        "West Ridge interconnection built, giving Avon Lake, the Rural Lorain County Water Authority and the City of Elyria a shared emergency backup connection rated up to 8 MGD; cost split ALRW 40% / RLCWA…"
      ],
      [
        "2016-2019",
        "$35 million rehabilitation of the Water Reclamation Facility to expand treatment capacity."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Lake Erie surface water is drawn through two separate offshore intakes (ALRW describes them only as \"two separate intakes\" — no pipe diameters are published) to the Water Filtration Plant at 33370 Lake Rd. Treatment is conventional surface-water filtration: powdered activated carbon (fed year-round…",
    "press": "Not published — no psi figure appears in the utility's CCR, rate schedule, or plant pages. The system does hold 3 million gallons of elevated storage: a new tower bowl put in…",
    "rate": {
      "g": 2.25,
      "n": "Effective 1/1/2026, residential standard 3/4-inch meter. Avon Lake bills QUARTERLY, not monthly. Water: $8.37 quarterly minimum service fee (includes the first 2,000 gallons)…",
      "m": 10.29
    },
    "imp": [
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        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "36.55",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 17.1 to 51.6 ppb; disinfection byproduct. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "16.8",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 9.60 to 20.3 ppb; disinfection byproduct. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Total Chlorine",
        "1.39",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 1.20 to 1.40 ppm; disinfectant residual."
      ],
      [
        "Total Organic Carbon (TOC)",
        "1.32",
        "ratio",
        "TT",
        "2023",
        "Range 1.0 to 1.7. Reported as the removal ratio; above 1 means compliant."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.20 (highest)",
        "NTU",
        "TT",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.02 to 0.20 NTU; 100% of samples met the treatment technique standard."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.69",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.69 to 1.20 ppm; naturally occurring plus additive for dental health."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.96",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.134 to 0.96 ppm; well below MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.02",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and from metal refineries."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile, tap samples)",
        "<2.0",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2023",
        "No individual results over the action level. The CCR does not publish a tap-sample count; the \"61\" in the report is the…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile, tap samples)",
        "0.06",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (action…",
        "2023",
        "No individual results over the action level."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "3-million-gallon water tower bowl replacement",
        8000000,
        "2017",
        "completed",
        "Replaced a 500,000-gallon tank; financed with a 0-percent Ohio EPA loan."
      ],
      [
        "Orthophosphate corrosion control",
        null,
        "2017",
        "completed",
        "Phosphate dosing began September 11, 2017, within Ohio EPA-approved guidelines."
      ],
      [
        "West Ridge interconnection (ALRW / RLCWA / Elyria)",
        null,
        "2018-2019",
        "completed",
        "Emergency backup connection rated up to 8 MGD. Up to $3 million was requested from the Water Supply Revolving Loan Account; the final construction cost is not…"
      ],
      [
        "Water Reclamation Facility rehabilitation",
        35000000,
        "2016-2019",
        "completed",
        "Increased treatment capacity to meet growing demand on the collection system."
      ],
      [
        "Combined sewer separation program",
        null,
        "1974-2019",
        "completed",
        "Begun under a 1974 City Master Sewer Plan after the 1972 Clean Water Act; final conversion December 2019."
      ],
      [
        "Water Filtration Plant filtration and chemical feed/storage upgrade",
        null,
        "2024-2026",
        "under construction",
        "Four new larger filters added at the end of the existing twelve, replacing units including the original 1926 filters; expanded chemical storage and conversion…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "On-site sodium hypochlorite generation from salt",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "ALRW says it is preparing to pilot the first system of its kind in Ohio, generating hypochlorite from sodium chloride on site, pending Ohio EPA approval, to…"
      ],
      [
        "Property acquisition adjacent to the Water Filtration Plant",
        null,
        "",
        "proposed",
        "The Board acquired several adjacent properties to allow future capacity expansion for expected county growth. No project scope or cost published."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Source is Lake Erie through two intakes, which the utility describes as a \"virtually endless source of quality raw water\" — volume is not the constraint. Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Source Assessment finds the protection area (critical assessment zone) susceptible to contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, air…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Avon Lake Regional Water operates the Water Reclamation Facility, serving all of Avon Lake, the northern part of Avon, and the Lorain County Rural Wastewater District (LORCO) in and around Eaton and Carlisle Townships. Rated 6.5 MGD normal flow with capacity to accept as much as 12.5 MGD in wet weather. Final effluent discharges to Lake…",
      "st": "No separate stormwater utility or stormwater fee is documented in the utility's published rate schedule or service pages. Wet-weather flow was addressed through the combined-sewer separation program completed in 2019 and the added wet-weather capacity at the…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "The utility began in 1925 with $390,000 and 1,200 customers; today it is roughly a $60 million operation serving over 200,000 people across a 680-square-mile territory in seven counties.",
      "About 85% of the water the plant produces is sold outside Avon Lake's own city limits — to Avon, North Ridgeville, Sheffield Lake, Medina and others.",
      "Lab staff run about 150 water quality tests a day, more than 50,000 a year.",
      "Four of the plant's filters were the originals installed in 1926; they are being replaced in the upgrade that broke ground in 2024, after nearly a century of service.",
      "The 2017 tower replacement swapped a 500,000-gallon tank for a 3-million-gallon one — a sixfold jump in elevated storage for $8 million."
    ],
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        "https://avonlakewater.org/2017/09/corrosion-control-effort/"
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        "https://avonlakewater.org/wp-content/uploads/AL_11736-2024-CC-Report_WEB_2024.pdf"
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        "https://avonlakewater.org/2017/09/corrosion-control-effort/",
        "https://avonlakewater.org/2017/11/request-for-public-comment-elyria-interconnection/",
        "https://avonlakewater.org/about-us/about-the-avon-lake-water-reclamation-facility/"
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