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  "pwsid": "OH5001611",
  "name": "Aqua Ohio - Struthers",
  "county": "Mahoning",
  "population": 58551,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "reservoir",
  "label": "Evans Lake (Yellow Creek impoundment)",
  "bodies": [
    "Evans Lake"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Aqua Ohio Struthers Evans Lake"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Evans Lake is a private Aqua Ohio-owned reservoir on Yellow Creek in Mahoning County (dam completed 1948), distinct from the nearby Meander Creek Reservoir used by Mahoning Valley Sanitary District/Youngstown.",
  "urls": [
    "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH5001611/FACILITY_TYPE_CODE/IN/JSON",
    "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/28/documents/habs/PWSLakes.pdf",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Lake_(Ohio)"
  ],
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Aqua Ohio - Struthers (Poland) Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "Poland, OH 44514 area, near Evans Lake, Mahoning County",
      "la": 41.011,
      "lo": -80.548,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Evans Lake (Yellow Creek impoundment)",
      "src": "Evans Lake, a Yellow Creek impoundment in Poland Township, piped to Aqua Ohio's nearby treatment plant serving Struthers",
      "cls": "reservoir"
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1948",
        "The Evans Lake dam on Yellow Creek in Poland Township was completed, creating the 582-acre reservoir that still supplies the Aqua Ohio Struthers system."
      ],
      [
        "1961",
        "The City of Struthers Water Pollution Control Facility was constructed; it was last upgraded in 2011."
      ],
      [
        "2004",
        "Ohio EPA's Mahoning River TMDL found bacteria impairment upstream and downstream of the Struthers plant, attributing it to unsewered areas, combined and sanitary sewer overflows, livestock and…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "A new Aqua Ohio rate agreement was reported for the Struthers service area after the prior 2012 contract expired December 31, 2024, setting a 20.5% increase phased across 2026-2029."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Raw water is drawn from Evans Lake, a Yellow Creek impoundment in Poland Township, and treated at Aqua Ohio's Poland plant before distribution to Struthers, New Middletown and neighboring parts of Mahoning County. Ohio EPA identifies the source and plant; the specific unit-process train was not…",
    "press": "not published — no system-wide psi figure found in sources reviewed.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 11.68,
      "n": "2026 residential rate under the reported Aqua Ohio agreement: $11.68 per 1,000 gallons plus a $16.90 monthly base charge on a 5/8\" x 3/4\" meter. Rising to $11.73 (2027), $12.35…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Struthers WPCF sanitary sewer overflow compliance schedule",
        null,
        "2023",
        "under construction",
        "Ohio EPA included a compliance schedule in the renewed NPDES permit to address collection-system SSOs, plus SSO reporting special conditions."
      ],
      [
        "Inflow and infiltration elimination program",
        null,
        "",
        "under construction",
        "City program to keep stormwater out of the sanitary sewers and eliminate system overflows, across roughly 50 miles of Struthers sanitary sewer."
      ],
      [
        "Struthers WPCF upgrade",
        null,
        "2011",
        "completed",
        "Most recent major upgrade to the 1961 facility, per the Ohio EPA NPDES fact sheet."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
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        "Aqua Ohio phased rate increases, 2026-2029",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "5% in 2026, 5% in 2027, 5.25% in 2028 and 5.25% in 2029 — about $2.98 more per month initially on a 3,900-gallon bill."
      ],
      [
        "Industrial pretreatment program (contingent)",
        null,
        "",
        "proposed",
        "Struthers has not been required to run a pretreatment program, but Ohio EPA reserved the right to modify the permit to require one."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Evans Lake is a single, privately owned 582-acre impoundment, a smaller drought buffer than large regional reservoirs such as nearby Meander Creek. The Mahoning River downstream is listed as impaired for recreational-use bacteria, with combined and sanitary sewer overflows among the named sources.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The City of Struthers operates its own Water Pollution Control Facility at 530 Lowellville Rd, discharging to the Mahoning River (then Beaver River and Ohio River). Average design flow is 6.0 MGD with a peak hydraulic capacity of 9.5 MGD, serving about 34,500 people in Struthers, the Village of Poland, and parts of Youngstown, Poland…",
      "st": "Sanitary sewer overflows are reported and under an Ohio EPA compliance schedule, and the Mahoning River corridor carries documented combined and sanitary sewer overflow contributions to bacteria impairment. No dedicated citywide stormwater utility fee was…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "The system's entire water source is a private lake: Aqua Ohio owns Evans Lake outright, 582 acres created by damming Yellow Creek in 1948.",
      "Neighboring Campbell is easy to confuse with Struthers but runs a completely separate water system drawing on Lake McKelvey and Lake Hamilton.",
      "Struthers' wastewater plant runs two mismatched treatment trains side by side — activated sludge on the West End, plastic-media trickling filters on the East End — off one shared headworks.",
      "Only about a third of the flow through the Struthers plant is actually Struthers': 64.5% arrives from Mahoning County territory outside the city."
    ]
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH5001611.jpg",
    "caption": "Lake Hamilton Dam impounding Yellow Creek in Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio (same watershed as Evans Lake, the system's actual sourc",
    "credit": "Nyttend",
    "license": "Public domain"
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
  "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Aqua Ohio - Struthers · OH5001611\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH5001611/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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