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  "pwsid": "OH7200211",
  "name": "Clyde City",
  "county": "Sandusky",
  "population": 6325,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "reservoir",
  "label": "Raccoon Creek & Beaver Creek Reservoirs (upground, off Sandusky River basin)",
  "bodies": [
    "Raccoon Creek Reservoir",
    "Beaver Creek Reservoir",
    "Sandusky River"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Beaver Creek Reservoir",
    "Beaver Creek",
    "Racoon Creek Reservoir",
    "Sandusky River"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Raccoon Creek Reservoir (city-owned, 200M gal) is supplied in part by water transferred from Beaver Creek Reservoir in Seneca County; both are upground reservoirs within the Sandusky River watershed rather than direct river intakes, though SDWIS also lists a Sandusky River intake.",
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Clyde Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "South Main St, Clyde, OH",
      "la": 41.225,
      "lo": -83.071,
      "pt": "plant",
      "wb": "Raccoon Creek Reservoir",
      "src": "Raccoon Creek & Beaver Creek Reservoirs (upground, off Sandusky River basin)",
      "cls": "reservoir",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Beaver Creek pump station",
          "wb": "Beaver Creek",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Pump house on Beaver Creek, Seneca County, that fills the upground Beaver Creek Reservoir (built 1970-71)",
          "la": 41.225,
          "lo": -83.071,
          "pt": "pump_station"
        },
        {
          "n": "Beaver Creek Reservoir",
          "wb": "Beaver Creek (upground storage)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "692-million-gallon upground reservoir ~5 miles southwest of Clyde on Twp Rd 196 off SR 101; raw water is piped from here to Raccoon Creek Reservoir",
          "la": 41.246,
          "lo": -83.068,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Raccoon Creek Reservoir",
          "wb": "Raccoon Creek (upground storage, fed via pipeline from Beaver Creek Reservoir)",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "200-million-gallon upground reservoir on SR 101 in southern Clyde, adjacent to the treatment plant; this is the reservoir the plant draws from directly",
          "la": 41.2875,
          "lo": -82.9764,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Sandusky River intake",
          "wb": "Sandusky River",
          "role": "backup",
          "src": "Alternate/emergency raw-water intake tied to a long-pursued Seneca County raw-water-line project for Clyde and Green Springs; not part of routine daily supply",
          "la": 41.3025,
          "lo": -82.9749,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "pre-1885",
        "Clyde had no reliable water supply; fire cisterns built at intervals in the streets and filled from surface drainage were depended on for fighting fires."
      ],
      [
        "1883-86",
        "First public supply works developed, using what is now the community park pond, artesian wells, and 18,215 feet of main pipe with 38 fire hydrants. Total project cost $33,092.95."
      ],
      [
        "1939",
        "Existing 250,000-gallon clearwell constructed between the pond and the water works drive."
      ],
      [
        "1949-50",
        "Existing treatment plant and Raccoon Creek Reservoir constructed at a total project cost of $800,000."
      ],
      [
        "1970-71",
        "Major water system improvements: Beaver Creek Reservoir, Beaver Creek pump house, raw water pipeline, Meadow Lane water tank, and rehabilitation of the treatment plant."
      ],
      [
        "1973",
        "New fluoridation equipment installed."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "The Clyde Water Treatment Plant (1041 South Main Street) is a 2.4 MGD surface water plant. The 2025 CCR states the plant receives surface water from the Beaver Creek watershed — about 56 square miles — through an intake on Beaver Creek, with storage in the city's Raccoon Creek and Beaver Creek…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the Water Treatment page nor the 2025 CCR gives system pressure or pressure-zone figures.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published. Clyde posts no water rate schedule on clydeohio.org, and its codified ordinances on Municode return HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so no per-1,000-gallon rate…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "27.4",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Disinfection byproduct; range of detections 23.1-88.4 ppb — individual results exceeded the 80 ppb MCL, though the…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "21.3",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Disinfection byproduct; range 9.0-36.2 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.49",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.19-0.49 ppm; low for an agricultural watershed."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.03",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.84-1.12 ppm; consistent with active fluoridation (equipment installed 1973)."
      ],
      [
        "Atrazine",
        "0.240",
        "ppb",
        "3",
        "2025",
        "Runoff from herbicide used on row crops; range 0.120-0.240 ppb. Simazine also detected at 0.18 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Cyanide, Free",
        "1.09",
        "ppb",
        "200",
        "2025",
        "Typical source: discharge from steel/metal, plastic and fertilizer factories."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.012",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2025",
        "Erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "<4",
        "ppb",
        "15 (AL)",
        "2023",
        "Zero of twenty samples exceeded the action level. Next round due 2026. The CCR states the distribution system has no…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.022",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (AL)",
        "2023",
        "Zero of twenty samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.070",
        "NTU",
        "TT (0.3 NTU in…",
        "2025",
        "Highest recorded result 0.070 NTU; 100% of samples met the limit."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "New 2.4 MGD Water Treatment Facility, South Main Street",
        null,
        "1995-1997",
        "completed",
        "Groundbreaking 1995; dedicated October 5, 1996; online January 1997. Designed by Gills, Guard & Johnson after a citizens' committee recommended a smaller, less…"
      ],
      [
        "Woodland Avenue water tower",
        null,
        "2001",
        "completed",
        "Constructed in conjunction with the Whirlpool plant in Clyde."
      ],
      [
        "Beaver Creek pump house pump and VFD replacement",
        null,
        "2005",
        "completed",
        "Smaller pump and variable frequency drive installed; new gates also installed at Beaver Creek Reservoir the same year."
      ],
      [
        "High-service pump replacement at the plant",
        null,
        "2006",
        "completed",
        "700 gpm high-service pump removed and replaced with a 2,000 gpm VFD high-service pump."
      ],
      [
        "SCADA system upgrade",
        null,
        "2007",
        "completed",
        "Plant-wide control system upgrade per the city's water history record."
      ],
      [
        "Cathodic protection on the Beaver Creek-to-Raccoon Creek raw water line",
        null,
        "2008",
        "completed",
        "Installed on the raw water line running from Beaver Creek Reservoir to Raccoon Creek Reservoir; divers also inspected the clearwell and all three water towers…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "The 2025 CCR states that for source water assessment purposes all surface waters in Ohio are considered susceptible to contamination, being readily accessible and contaminable by chemicals and pathogens that may reach the intake with little warning. Clyde's drinking water source protection area contains potential contaminant sources…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not documented. Clyde publishes no wastewater treatment plant description, capacity, collection system detail, or sewer rate that could be retrieved from a primary source.",
      "st": "Not documented in available sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Clyde's first water works (1883-86) drew on what is now the town's community park pond, along with artesian wells — the whole system, including 18,215 feet of main and 38 hydrants, cost $33,092.95.",
      "The 2.4 MGD plant Clyde still uses exists because a Citizens Water Committee, on May 18, 1992, talked the city council out of a larger proposal and into hiring a new engineering firm to design a smaller, cheaper plant.",
      "A water tower was built at Woodland Avenue in 2001 in conjunction with the Whirlpool plant in Clyde.",
      "Before 1885 Clyde fought fires with cisterns built into the streets and filled by surface drainage."
    ],
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        "https://clydeohio.org/DocumentCenter/View/122/A-Brief-History-of-Water-in-Clyde-Ohio-PDF"
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        "https://clydeohio.org/DocumentCenter/View/122/A-Brief-History-of-Water-in-Clyde-Ohio-PDF"
      ],
      "pressure": [
        "https://clydeohio.org/167/Water-Treatment",
        "https://clydeohio.org/Archive.aspx?ADID=59"
      ],
      "rates": [
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      ],
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      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://clydeohio.org/DocumentCenter/View/122/A-Brief-History-of-Water-in-Clyde-Ohio-PDF"
      ],
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      ],
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