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  "name": "Toledo City Of",
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  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Toledo's Collins Park WTP draws directly from Lake Erie and also serves as wholesale supplier to numerous surrounding systems.",
  "urls": [
    "https://toledo.oh.gov/departments/public-utilities/water-treatment",
    "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/28/documents/habs/PWSLakes.pdf",
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        "2014",
        "A western Lake Erie algal bloom pushed microcystin past the intake, forcing a do-not-drink order Aug 2-4 for 400,000 to 500,000 people."
      ],
      [
        "2019",
        "Toledo voters passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights charter amendment after the bloom crisis; a federal judge voided it the following year."
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        "Per the mayor's July 2025 CCR letter, the city is upgrading Collins Park's biologically active filters supporting the ozone system and expanding water main replacements."
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    "treat": "Lake Erie water is coagulated and lime-softened at Collins Park, the largest water-softening plant on the lake, filtering about 75 million gallons a day; it then passes through biologically active filters supporting an ozone system and is chlorinated and fluoridated.",
    "press": "not published; no psi figure appears in city materials or the 2024 water quality report",
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      "n": "2026 city rate $4.858 per 100 cf (=$6.49/1,000 gal) plus $6.00/mo fixed; Lucas County customers on Toledo water pay $18/qtr + $48.58 per 1,000 cf",
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        "UCMR5; single detection of 0.005 ppb, unregulated"
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        "Collins Park biologically active filter and ozone system upgrade",
        null,
        "2025",
        "under construction",
        "cited in the mayor's July 2025 CCR letter; strengthens treatment of algal-bloom organics"
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        null,
        "2025",
        "under construction",
        "expanded Capital Improvement Projects for service reliability; no cost published"
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        "long-range capacity and HAB-response planning document referenced on the utility's tech-info page"
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    "stress": "The intake sits in western Lake Erie, the epicenter of seasonal harmful algal blooms. Ohio EPA's assessment calls the surface source susceptible, citing nearby sewage plants, combined sewer overflows, farm and urban runoff, dredge disposal and shipping spills. The 2014 crisis remains the defining risk.",
    "sew": {
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      "st": "Toledo bills a separate stormwater charge of $3.80 per month for single-family homes under the 2026 rate schedule; older parts of the city have combined sewers."
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      "Toledo's 2014 do-not-drink order cut off tap water for roughly half a million people for three days, the first big U.S. city shut down by an algal toxin.",
      "Toledo voters' 2019 Lake Erie Bill of Rights tried to give the lake legal standing; a federal judge struck it down the next year.",
      "The system serves parts of Lucas, Wood and Fulton counties in Ohio plus southern Monroe County, Michigan, about 500,000 people in all."
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