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Water A", "county": "Lorain", "population": 73125, "producer": false, "source_class": "erie", "label": "Mostly Lake Erie (bought from Avon Lake); some New London Reservoir and Ashland wells", "bodies": [ "Lake Erie", "New London Reservoir (Buck Creek / Vermilion River)" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "Jerome Fork basin wells (City of Ashland)", "notes": "RLCWA blends purchases from three sellers: Avon Lake Regional Water (Lake Erie surface water, believed to supply the bulk of RLCWA's territory per Avon Lake's own service-area description), New London Village (Buck Creek/Vermilion River via New London Reservoir), and Ashland City (groundwater,…", "urls": [ "https://cms9files.revize.com/rlcwaoh/RLCWA%202023%20CCR%20Final.pdf", "https://avonlakewater.org/about-us/", "https://www.cityofelyria.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ccr-2025-for-2024-sfj-May-13-USE.pdf" ], "chain": [ "OH4701803", "OH4700311" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Avon Lake Regional Water Filtration Plant (purchased supply)", "a": "33370 Lake Road, Avon Lake, OH 44012", "la": 41.5085, "lo": -82.0197, "pt": "plant", "wb": "Lake Erie", "src": "Lake Erie, drawn through an offshore intake to Avon Lake Regional Water's lakefront filtration plant on Lake Road", "cls": "erie", "k": "OH4700311#0", "of": "OH4700311" }, { "n": "Village of New London Water Treatment Plant (purchased supply)", "a": "New London Reservoir, Town Line Road, New London Township, Huron County, OH 44851", "la": 41.0661, "lo": -82.425, "pt": "intake", "wb": "New London Reservoir, an off-stream (upground) reservoir filled from Buck Creek, a branch of the Vermilion…", "src": "New London Reservoir, a 220-acre diked reservoir about 1 mile east of US-250 on Town Line Road southwest of New London village; the village pumps water into it from Buck Creek, a branch of the Vermilion River", "cls": "reservoir", "k": "OH3902611#0", "of": "OH3902611" }, { "n": "City of Ashland Water Treatment Plant (purchased supply)", "a": "1630 Cleveland Road, Ashland, OH 44805", "la": 40.8748, "lo": -82.2907, "pt": "plant", "wb": "Ashland municipal well field in the Jerome Fork basin (groundwater)", "src": "Twelve city wells in the Jerome Fork basin, 70 to 300 feet deep, just north of Ashland's treatment plant on Cleveland Road northeast of the city", "cls": "groundwater", "k": "OH0300112#0", "of": "OH0300112" } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "2014", "City of Ashland's radium sample (0.189 pCi/L) collected -- the oldest result still carried forward in RLCWA's 2023 CCR table." ], [ "2016", "The federal Revised Total Coliform Rule took effect on April 1, changing how RLCWA and its sellers monitor for coliform bacteria." ], [ "2018", "Last radium and alpha-emitter samples on record for the New London source: radium 1.04 pCi/L and alpha emitters 5.4 pCi/L, both under their MCLs." ], [ "2020", "New London and Ashland were sampled for six PFAS compounds under Ohio's statewide PFAS initiative; none were detected in finished water." ], [ "2023", "RLCWA failed to collect corrosion-control water quality parameter samples at the Ohio EPA-required frequency in July-December, triggering a public notice." ] ], "treat": "RLCWA operates no treatment plant; it blends finished water from three sellers: Avon Lake Regional Water (Lake Erie), the Village of New London (New London Reservoir, fed by Buck Creek) and the City of Ashland (12 Jerome Fork wells). All three filter and disinfect.", "press": "Not published; no service pressure or pressure-zone figures appear in the 2023 CCR.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not found in the sources reviewed; RLCWA's 2023 CCR does not publish a residential rate schedule.", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "59.825", "ppb", "80 ppb (MCL)", "2023", "Range 19.2-79.8 ppb across the blended distribution system; no violation." ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "38", "ppb", "60 ppb (MCL)", "2023", "Range 7-48.6 ppb; byproduct of disinfection." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "<2.0", "ppb", "15 ppb action…", "2023", "Zero of 32 samples exceeded the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.0559", "ppm", "1.3 ppm action…", "2023", "Zero of 32 samples exceeded the action level." ], [ "Turbidity (New London source)", "0.36", "NTU", "TT: 0.3 NTU in…", "2023", "Range 0.05-0.36 NTU from soil runoff; 100% of samples met the standard, no violation." ], [ "Radium (combined 226/228, New London)", "1.04", "pCi/L", "5 pCi/L (MCL)", "2018", "Well under the limit; most recent New London sample on record." ], [ "PFBA (unregulated, UCMR5)", "0.0051", "ppb", "no MCL…", "2023", "PFAS breakdown product, just over the 0.005 ppb minimum reporting level." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.96", "ppm", "10 ppm (MCL)", "2023", "Highest of the three sources (Avon Lake); range 0.134-0.96 ppm, well below the limit." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "No source of its own -- RLCWA depends entirely on three sellers. Ohio EPA found no direct pollution source for Avon Lake's Lake Erie intake; New London's reservoir sees soil-runoff turbidity; and Ashland's Jerome Fork wellfield is rated 'high susceptibility' for thin clay cover and a shallow water table.", "sew": { "s": "Not addressed in RLCWA's CCR. RLCWA is a water-only authority distributing purchased water across rural Lorain and Huron county communities; nothing in the sources reviewed shows it operating sanitary sewers.", "st": "Not addressed in any source reviewed." }, "fun": [ "RLCWA doesn't treat a drop of its own water -- every gallon is purchased pre-treated from three separate utilities and blended before it reaches a customer's tap.", "The New London Reservoir covers 220 acres and holds 1.4 billion gallons when full, fed by Buck Creek, a branch of the Vermilion River.", "Ashland's 12 supply wells tap the Jerome Fork basin at depths ranging from just 70 feet down to 300 feet.", "In 2023 RLCWA delivered an average of 5,744,491 gallons of drinking water a day -- all of it bought from someone else." ] }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44049", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44874", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44880", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44028", "share": 0.9941, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44859", "share": 0.9624, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44253", "share": 0.9485, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44235", "share": 0.9031, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44044", "share": 0.7975, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44090", "share": 0.5224, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44275", "share": 0.4777, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44287", "share": 0.2518, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44866", "share": 0.2386, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44889", "share": 0.2331, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44050", "share": 0.3186, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44074", "share": 0.2307, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44035", "share": 0.1573, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44851", "share": 0.1352, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44138", "share": 0.0743, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44837", "share": 0.0665, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44805", "share": 0.0372, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44001", "share": 0.0269, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44280", "share": 0.0157, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44039", "share": 0.0088, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44256", "share": 0.006, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH4701803.jpg", "caption": "The Vermilion River near Lake Erie in Vermilion, Ohio; the New London Reservoir is filled from Buck Creek, a branch of this river", "credit": "Wikimedia Commons", "license": "CC BY 2.5" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4701803/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH4701803.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), \"Rural Lorain Co. 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