{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH6702812", "name": "Portage County Water Resources", "county": "Portage", "population": 8606, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Buried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 7, "aquifer": "Buried valley aquifer (upper sandstone/glacial buried valley system)", "notes": "Operates 12 groundwater wells; maintains emergency interconnections with Cleveland, Ravenna, and Tallmadge surface-water systems for backup supply only, not routine source.", "urls": [ "https://waterzen.com/water-providers/portage-county-water-resources/" ], "chain": [ "OH6702812" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Portage County Water Resources (regional county system)", "la": 41.2513, "lo": -81.2568, "pt": "approximate", "wb": "Buried valley aquifer (upper sandstone/glacial buried valley system)", "src": "Buried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)", "cls": "groundwater", "in": [ { "n": "Shalersville Well Field", "wb": "Buried valley glacial aquifer (sand and gravel drift filling a bedrock valley, part of the Cuyahoga Valley buried-valley system) locally…", "role": "primary", "src": "Ohio EPA-delineated wellhead protection area in Shalersville Township; wells tap sand-and-gravel buried-valley drift reported to yield up to 1,200 gpm in this reach (5 wells)", "la": 41.2513, "lo": -81.2568, "pt": "approximate", "wells": [ "Well 5", "Well 1", "Well 2", "Well 3", "Well 4" ] }, { "n": "Brimfield Well Field", "wb": "Buried valley glacial aquifer (sand and gravel drift over Connoquenessing Sandstone bedrock in the Cuyahoga buried-valley system)", "role": "secondary", "src": "Second county wellfield in Brimfield Township, also under an Ohio EPA wellhead protection area, feeding the same county water system alongside Shalersville (2 wells)", "la": 41.0987, "lo": -81.3843, "pt": "approximate", "wells": [ "Well 1", "Well 2" ] } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "2009", "Portage County commissioners established a county Storm Water District covering all unincorporated areas, to meet Ohio EPA's NPDES Phase II stormwater requirements." ], [ "2024", "Mantua Village water distribution replacement Phase 1 announced, along with notices to Mantua property owners about galvanized service laterals requiring replacement (Mantua is PWS OH6702212, a…" ], [ "2025", "Ohio EPA revised the source water assessment reports for all three PCWR public water systems (OH670281, OH6702212 Mantua, OH6705312 Rivermoor)." ], [ "2025", "Chinn Regional Sewer Improvements project commenced (notice of commencement February 2025; tree removal March 2025)." ], [ "2026", "In its 2025 report PCWR publicly corrected four errors in the 2024 CCR: missing TTHM results for the Mantua and Rivermoor systems, chromium listed as detected when it was not detected in any system…" ], [ "2026", "Sanitary sewer construction on the Chinn Regional project began March 9, with completion still planned for January 2027; a countywide water meter replacement program was announced to begin in…" ] ], "treat": "All supply is groundwater from 12 wells spread across the Shalersville, Brimfield, Mantua and Suffield areas, plus a connection to the City of Ravenna's surface-water system. Raw water goes to an aeration tank to oxidize high iron, then to a mixing tank dosed with polyaluminum chloride and soda ash…", "press": "Not published; no psi figure appears in PCWR's water quality reports, facilities pages or rate documents.", "rate": { "g": 7.31, "n": "2026 user rates, updated 3-11-2026. Water accounts are billed QUARTERLY (only Mantua Village and bulk accounts are monthly). For the metered Portage County water service area…", "m": 30.42 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "39.6", "ppb", "80 ppb MCL", "2025", "range 39.0-39.6 ppb in the Portage County PWS; no violation" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "10.5", "ppb", "60 ppb MCL", "2025", "range 10.0-10.5 ppb; no violation" ], [ "Barium", "0.120", "ppm", "2 ppm MCL", "2025", "range 0.033-0.120 ppm; erosion of natural deposits" ], [ "Total chlorine", "1.13", "ppm", "4 ppm MRDL", "2025", "range 0.92-1.27 ppm" ], [ "Fluoride", "0.966", "ppm", "4 ppm MCL", "2025", "range 0.946-0.996 ppm; added to prevent tooth decay" ], [ "Nitrate + Nitrite", "2.14", "ppm", "10 ppm MCL", "2025", "range ND-2.14 ppm" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.90", "ppm", "1.3 ppm action…", "2025", "range ND-1.2 ppm, 0 of 20 sites above the action level - but the 90th percentile is high for a system with corrosion…" ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "ND", "ppb", "15 ppb action…", "2025", "not detected; 0 of 20 sites above the action level. The OH6702812 and Rivermoor distribution systems have no lead…" ], [ "Lithium (unregulated, UCMR)", "11", "ppb", "no standard", "2024", "naturally occurring; the detection was inadvertently omitted from the 2024 report and disclosed in the 2025 report" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Chinn Regional Sewer Improvements", null, "2025-2027", "under construction", "Notice of commencement February 2025; contractor United Earthworks began installing new sanitary sewers March 9, 2026; completion planned January 2027 with…" ], [ "Sanitary sewer inflow and infiltration reduction projects", null, "2025", "under construction", "Announced January 2025; no cost published." ], [ "Mantua water distribution replacement, Phase 1", null, "2024", "under construction", "Serves the separate Mantua Village PWS (OH6702212) that PCWR also operates; no cost published." ] ], "plan": [ [ "Countywide water meter replacement program", null, "2026", "planned", "Beginning September 2026, PCWR will systematically replace aging meters throughout the service area; Utility Service Company contracted to install. No cost…" ] ], "stress": "The Ohio EPA source water assessments for PCWR's systems, revised in 2025, find the county's drinking water sources have HIGH susceptibility to contamination - there is no protective clay layer over the aquifers, the water in the aquifer is shallow, and there are potential contaminant sources inside the protection areas. Supply…", "sew": { "s": "PCWR runs the sewer side too: roughly 1,650,000 linear feet (312 miles) of sewer line, more than 100 pump stations, and 12 county-operated treatment plants (Streetsboro 4 MGD, Franklin Hills 1.5 MGD, Twin Lakes 458,000 gpd, Randolph 300,000 gpd, Atwater 200,000 gpd, Red Fox 160,000 gpd, Bolingbrook 120,000 gpd, Rivermoor 42,500 gpd, West…", "st": "Handled outside Water Resources: the Portage County Board of Commissioners established a county Storm Water District in 2009, covering all unincorporated areas of the county, to comply with Ohio EPA's NPDES Phase II permit program and implement a six-measure…" }, "fun": [ "Portage County Water Resources is a county utility that behaves like a regional one: 12 wells, 78 miles of water main and four plants averaging 3.12 million gallons a day serve the equivalent of a city of 30,000, while…", "The county sells treated groundwater wholesale: Streetsboro gets most of its domestic water from PCWR's Shalersville plant, and the county's rate sheet carries bulk rates for Aurora, Streetsboro and Aqua America.", "PCWR's 2025 water quality report opens by correcting its own 2024 report - two missing trihalomethane results, a chromium detection that never happened, and a lithium detection left out entirely.", "Every meter in the county service area is being swapped out starting in September 2026, the first systematic replacement in years." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2025_consumer_water_report_website_version.pdf", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/storm-water-management", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/node/637/news", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/files/chinn-regional-sewer-improvements-status-notice-2" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2025_consumer_water_report_website_version.pdf", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/water-treatment-plants", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/water-supply-facilities" ], "rates": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2026.03.11_2026_user_rates_0.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2025_consumer_water_report_website_version.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/node/637/news", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/files/chinn-regional-sewer-improvements-status-notice-2" ], "planned": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/files/water-meter-replacement-summary" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2025_consumer_water_report_website_version.pdf", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/water-supply-facilities", "https://www.cityofstreetsboro.com/departments/water-department/" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/wastewater-treatment-facilities", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2026.03.11_2026_user_rates_0.pdf", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/storm-water-management" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/water-supply-facilities", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/water-resources/pages/wastewater-treatment-facilities", "https://www.cityofstreetsboro.com/departments/water-department/", "https://www.portagecounty-oh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3706/f/uploads/2025_consumer_water_report_website_version.pdf" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44240", "share": 0.0098, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44278", "share": 0.0014, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH6702812.jpg", "caption": "Portage County courthouse in downtown Ravenna, Ohio, the county seat served by Portage County Water Resources", "credit": "JonRidinger", "license": "CC BY 3.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6702812/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6702812.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), \"Portage County Water Resources · OH6702812\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6702812/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }