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Treatment is conventional surface-water treatment with filtration and chlorine disinfection; the plant is…", "press": "Not published. The 2025 CCR, the Water Department page and the Sewer Department page all give no distribution pressure figure or pressure-zone map.", "rate": { "g": 13.45, "n": "Water: $10.06 per 100 cubic feet 'or portion thereof' effective January 1, 2024 (up from $8.75 effective January 1, 2023) — the most recent water rate the Water Department page…", "m": 73.92 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "83.4", "ppb", "80 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "MCL VIOLATION — highest locational running annual average, Q4 2025; individual results ranged 37.9-129.4 ppb.…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "31.8", "ppb", "60 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Range 20.7-51.0; disinfection by-product, just over half the MCL." ], [ "Chloroform (unregulated)", "87", "ppb", "no individual…", "2025", "Range 22.5-87.0; the dominant component of Ottawa's trihalomethanes." ], [ "Bromodichloromethane (unregulated)", "28.1", "ppb", "no individual…", "2025", "Range 9.2-28.1. Dibromochloromethane 13.7 ppb and bromoform 1.6 ppb were also reported." ], [ "Nitrate", "3.0", "ppm", "10 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Range 0.53-3.0; fertilizer runoff, septic tanks, erosion of natural deposits in an agricultural watershed." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.12", "ppm", "4 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Range 0.83-1.30." ], [ "Barium", "0.016", "ppm", "2 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Under 1% of the MCL." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "1.858", "ppm", "4 ppm (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 1.4-2.1; the village is lowering residuals where it can as part of its TTHM correction." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.075", "ppm", "1.3 ppm (Action…", "2023", "Corrected value per the November 13, 2025 Ohio EPA NOV; 0 of 25 samples above the action level." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "<2.0", "ppb", "15 ppb (Action…", "2023", "0 of 25 samples above the action level." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Wastewater treatment plant expansion", 4500000, "1999", "completed", "Two 75-foot-diameter final settling tanks, two UV disinfection channels totalling 5.0 MGD, a sludge pumping and generator building, and an oxidation ditch for…" ], [ "Green Meadow Drive sewer lining", 96045, "2026", "planned", "Resolution 8631, passed May 11, 2026, accepting American Trenchless's bid not to exceed $96,045. Council reviewed lining on Northview Court at the same meeting…" ], [ "Lead service line inventory (with Arcadis engineering)", null, "2026", "under construction", "Village is working with Arcadis to build and maintain a complete service line inventory after the October 2025 warning letter; required notifications and the…" ], [ "TTHM corrective measures at the water plant", null, "2026", "under construction", "Adjusting treatment to optimize disinfection and reduce by-product formation, optimizing chlorine feed rates and lowering residuals where appropriate, and…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Wastewater treatment plant facility planning document (Jones & Henry Engineers, Ltd.)", null, "2026", "proposed", "Ordinance authorizing acceptance of the Jones & Henry proposal without competitive bidding was on second reading at the May 11, 2026 council meeting. The…" ], [ "Miller City water tank repair", null, "2026", "planned", "Cited by the public works director on May 11, 2026 as work that 'will also help' the TTHM situation, indicating the tank is part of Ottawa's distribution…" ] ], "stress": "The intake is on the Blanchard River, and Ohio EPA's November 2003 source water assessment treats all Ohio surface waters as susceptible and requiring extensive treatment; Ottawa's protection area contains agricultural and feed-lot runoff, home construction, unsewered areas, combined sewer overflows, wastewater treatment discharges…", "sew": { "s": "Ottawa Wastewater Treatment Plant, 1371 Defiance Street, serving the villages of Ottawa and Glandorf plus portions of Ottawa Township and discharging to the Blanchard River, a Maumee River tributary. Treatment is contact stabilization with an oxidation ditch run in extended-aeration mode, plus UV disinfection. Rated 3.0 MGD since the…", "st": "Not published. No storm sewer or stormwater program information appears on the village site." }, "fun": [ "The Blanchard River is named for Jean Jacques Blanchard, described by the village as a French tailor who settled among the Shawnee along the river in 1769. (Earlier drafts of this entry called him a trader; the…", "Ottawa drinks from the Blanchard River and returns its treated wastewater to the same river: the water plant on Agner Street draws from the Blanchard, and the wastewater plant on Defiance Street discharges back into it.", "The water plant is designed for 3 million gallons a day, currently makes about 1.75 MGD, and is backed by a 116-million-gallon reservoir.", "Ohio EPA's source water assessment counted 162 miles of roads and 75 miles of rail lines — 1,066 road intersections and 48 rail crossings — upstream of the intake, any of which could put a hazardous-material spill into…", "The village sampled for more than 80 different contaminants in 2025, most of which were not detected; the CCR explains that a part per billion is about one second in 31.7 years." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=", "https://ottawaohio.us/2151/sewer-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/3310", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6900711/JSON" ], "treatment": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=", "https://ottawaohio.us/2169/water-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/2152/Blanchard-River", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6900711/JSON" ], "pressure": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=", "https://ottawaohio.us/2169/water-department" ], "rates": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/2169/water-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/2151/sewer-department" ], "impurities": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=" ], "projects": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/2151/sewer-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/3310", "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=" ], "planned": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/3310" ], "water_stress": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=", "https://ottawaohio.us/2169/water-department", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6900711/JSON" ], "sewer": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/2151/sewer-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/3310" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://ottawaohio.us/2152/Blanchard-River", "https://ottawaohio.us/2169/water-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/2151/sewer-department", "https://ottawaohio.us/DocumentCenter/View/375/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report-?bidId=" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45875", "share": 0.3949, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH6900711.jpg", "caption": "Coast Guard on the Blanchard River during the 2007 flood in Ottawa, Ohio", "credit": "U.S. Coast Guard Visual Information Gallery", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6900711/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6900711.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), \"Ottawa Village · OH6900711\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6900711/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }