{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH7702703", "name": "Munroe Falls City", "county": "Summit", "population": 5042, "producer": false, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Wells in Cuyahoga River buried valley sand & gravel aquifer", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH7702703", "OH7701012" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1809", "About forty settlers arrive, among them Francis Kelsey and William Stow; Kelsey builds a sawmill on the south bank of the Cuyahoga River and a gristmill goes up on the north bank. The settlement is…" ], [ "1817", "A wooden dam is built to power both mills and the village is renamed Florence." ], [ "1836", "William and Edmund Munroe of Boston buy the two mills and about 250 acres around them and lay out a new village, which they name Munroe Falls." ], [ "1838", "Munroe Falls is incorporated on October 26." ], [ "1903", "A more substantial dam replaces the earlier structure." ], [ "2005-2006", "The Munroe Falls dam is removed for river restoration after low oxygen levels in the Cuyahoga River were traced largely to the stagnant pool behind it; the entire dam came out once workers found a…" ] ], "treat": "Munroe Falls treats no water. It is a distribution system that buys finished water from the City of Cuyahoga Falls, whose treatment plant sits at 2028 Munroe Falls Ave. Cuyahoga Falls draws groundwater from a well field in Water Works Park on the south bank of the Cuyahoga River — 15 wells per the…", "press": "Not published. Neither the Munroe Falls CCR nor its water pages give distribution pressures; the CCR discusses pressure only in the context of backflow prevention.", "rate": { "g": 33.1, "n": "Published schedule as revised March 3, 2026: a minimum monthly distribution (base) charge of $27.85 that includes up to 2,000 gallons, with all usage above 2,000 gallons billed at…", "m": 127.15 }, "imp": [ [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0.00", "ppb", "15 ppb (AL)", "2025", "Munroe Falls' own sampling of 20 residential taps; range 0 to 13 ppb; 0 of 20 samples above the action level. The city…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.56", "ppm", "1.3 ppm (AL)", "2025", "Range 0.06-0.81 ppm from 20 residential taps; 0 of 20 above the action level." ], [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "45.95", "ppb", "80 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Range 27.50-52.8 ppb, sampled locally every 90 days. The supplier's system-wide 2025 average was higher at 61.78 ppb…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "24.90", "ppb", "60 ppb (MCL)", "2025", "Range 15-28.7 ppb, sampled locally every 90 days." ], [ "Total chlorine", "1.23", "ppm", "4 ppm (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 0.93-1.42 ppm, sampled daily." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.92", "ppm", "4 ppm (MCL)", "2025", "Range 0.80-1.06 ppm; monitored and reported by Cuyahoga Falls, which adds it for dental health." ], [ "Hardness", "120-140", "ppm as…", "none (aesthetic)", "2025", "Not a contaminant. The Munroe Falls CCR reports finished hardness of 120 to 140 ppm; the supplier's CCR gives 100 to…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "SR 91 waterline replacement under the railroad", null, "2026", "under construction", "Waterline replacement on Route 91 under the railroad began Aug. 24, 2026 and is expected to finish by October 2026, coinciding with ODOT's SR 91 bridge repairs…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Cuyahoga Falls WTP softener building and pipe gallery replacement", null, "2026", "planned", "Ohio EPA's 2022 sanitary survey found significant deterioration in the supplier's softener building pipe gallery; the entire softener building is to be…" ], [ "State Road water tank chlorine booster station removal", null, "2026", "planned", "The supplemental chlorine booster station was found inoperable in the 2022 Ohio EPA survey; Cuyahoga Falls plans to remove it in 2026. No cost published." ], [ "Ross Park water tank status determination", null, "2025", "planned", "Following a reporting violation over missing inspection records, Cuyahoga Falls said the tank's future status would be determined in the first half of 2025…" ], [ "Formal water rate study", null, "2026", "planned", "After the March 2026 rate correction, Munroe Falls requested a formal rate study from an outside source (RCAP). No cost published." ] ], "stress": "Low on quantity, moderate on source vulnerability, and sharply elevated on cost. The buried-valley sand and gravel aquifer is plentiful and river-recharged, but Ohio EPA's drinking water source assessment rates it highly susceptible to contamination: depth to water is only 4 to 32 feet, there is no low-permeability protective layer…", "sew": { "s": "Sanitary sewer service in Munroe Falls is maintained by the Summit County Department of Sanitary Sewer Services (DOSSS), 330-926-2400, not by the city or by Cuyahoga Falls. The county sewer bill is based on the customer's water usage, so a high water bill produces a high sewer bill.", "st": "The city bills each property a Stormwater Maintenance Fee, and stormwater drainage questions are handled through Summit Soil and Water Conservation District material carried on the city site. No CSO inventory or flooding data is published." }, "fun": [ "Munroe Falls has never treated a drop of its own water — it buys 100% from Cuyahoga Falls and describes itself flatly as 'a distribution system.'", "The plant that supplies it isn't in Munroe Falls, but its address is: the Cuyahoga Falls water treatment plant sits at 2028 Munroe Falls Ave.", "The city pumps at night. Its station on Munroe Falls Ave moved an average of 297,272 gallons every night in 2025 into a 1.5-million-gallon reservoir behind a retirement center and a 200,000-gallon tower on Gaylord Drive.", "In March 2026 Cuyahoga Falls told Munroe Falls it had been under-billing it and handed over a $281,178 back-bill for 2024-25; residents are paying it off at $1.84 per service per month for five years, on top of a…", "The namesake dam, built in 1903 to replace an 1817 wooden one, came out entirely in 2005-06 once crews discovered a natural rock ledge sitting underneath it." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munroe_Falls,_Ohio", "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments", "https://www.cityofcf.com/sites/default/files/editor/Water/CCR_2025.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.cityofcf.com/sites/default/files/editor/Water/CCR_2025.pdf", "https://www.munroefalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/6547/WATER-QUALITY-REPORT-2025", "https://www.munroefalls.com/158/Water-Department" ], "rates": [ "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.munroefalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/6547/WATER-QUALITY-REPORT-2025", "https://www.cityofcf.com/sites/default/files/editor/Water/CCR_2025.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.munroefalls.com/" ], "planned": [ "https://www.cityofcf.com/sites/default/files/editor/Water/CCR_2025.pdf", "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.cityofcf.com/sites/default/files/editor/Water/CCR_2025.pdf", "https://www.munroefalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/6547/WATER-QUALITY-REPORT-2025", "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments", "https://www.munroefalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/6547/WATER-QUALITY-REPORT-2025" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.munroefalls.com/DocumentCenter/View/6547/WATER-QUALITY-REPORT-2025", "https://www.munroefalls.com/161/Water-Rates-Bills-Payments", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munroe_Falls,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44262", "share": 0.9986, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7702703.jpg", "caption": "Munroe Falls city hall, in the Summit County city served by wells in the Cuyahoga River buried-valley aquifer.", "credit": "MCTales", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7702703/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH7702703.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), \"Munroe Falls City · OH7702703\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7702703/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }