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  "name": "Hubbard City",
  "county": "Trumbull",
  "population": 8518,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Shenango River / Shenango River Lake (Pymatuning area) surface intake",
  "bodies": [
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    "Shenango River Lake"
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  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1994",
        "Hubbard's North Main Street water treatment plant processed its last water. In late 1994 the city signed a wholesale contract to buy treated water from Consumer's Pennsylvania Water Company — the…"
      ],
      [
        "2006",
        "Hubbard's remaining local source of record (facility 'Hubbard City P01') was deactivated in federal SDWIS on October 31."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Ohio EPA awarded Hubbard direct assistance for lead service line inventory development and service line material determination."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "Federal SDWIS records a reporting violation (code 4H) under the lead and copper rule with a compliance period beginning 7/2/2025; return to compliance was recorded 11/11/2025."
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "Aqua Pennsylvania completed a $35 million improvement of the Shenango Valley Water Treatment Plant that supplies the area, adding a 700,000-gallon raw water basin to pre-treat Shenango River water."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Hubbard treats none of its own water. Federal SDWIS lists a permanent purchased surface-water connection named 'CC From Aqua PA - Shenango,' whose seller of record is AQUA OHIO - MASURY (PWSID OH7802711); that system is in turn fed from Aqua Pennsylvania's Shenango Valley plant on the Shenango…",
    "press": "Not published. No psi figure appears in any source retrievable for this system. (The draft's claim that Hubbard triggers boil advisories below 20 psi could not be confirmed on any…",
    "rate": {
      "g": 5.83,
      "n": "Water only — these are from the city's Water Rates page, not its separate Wastewater Rates page. Inside the corporation limit: $21.90 per user account per month plus $4.36 per 100…",
      "m": 51.04
    },
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        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "4.3",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb (action…",
        "",
        "Most recent 90th-percentile result in federal SDWIS (0.0043 mg/L); the sampling period end date is not carried in the…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Lead service line inventory and material determination (Arcadis)",
        null,
        "2024-2027",
        "under construction",
        "Ohio EPA awarded direct assistance in 2024 and the city applied for further material-determination funding in 2025. Arcadis is performing customer canvassing…"
      ],
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        "Wastewater treatment plant upgrade",
        17000000,
        "2021",
        "unknown",
        "A $17 million two-year upgrade of the Water Pollution Control Facility began in February 2021 and included stormwater management and collection-system work.…"
      ]
    ],
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    "stress": "Hubbard has no water source of its own — its local source was formally deactivated in 2006 — and depends on a single purchased surface-water connection that runs back across the state line to Aqua Pennsylvania's Shenango River plant, with Aqua Ohio - Masury as the seller of record. That is a two-utility, two-state dependency for every…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Hubbard operates its own Water Pollution Control Facility, originally built in 1962 and rated at about 1.3 MGD, using an oxidation-ditch activated-sludge process followed by secondary clarification and disinfection, discharging to Little Yankee Run under Ohio EPA NPDES permit 3IM00002. A $17 million two-year upgrade began in February…",
      "st": "Not documented in retrievable sources, though the 2021 wastewater plant upgrade was reported to include stormwater management and collection-system work."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Hubbard hasn't treated its own drinking water since 1994 — every gallon is bought wholesale and piped in from a plant on the Shenango River in Pennsylvania.",
      "The 1994 wholesale contract was signed with Consumer's Pennsylvania Water Company; Aqua Pennsylvania only inherited it later, and federal records still list Aqua Ohio - Masury as the seller Hubbard actually buys from.",
      "Aqua finished a $35 million rebuild of the Shenango Valley plant in 2026, adding a 700,000-gallon raw-water basin — an upgrade Hubbard's customers drink from without owning a foot of it.",
      "Federal records still carry a treatment plant facility for Hubbard, but the city's own water source has been marked inactive since Halloween 2006."
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH7801415/JSON",
        "https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2026/05/hubbard-enacts-plan-to-get-the-lead-out/",
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH7801415/JSON",
        "https://www.aquawater.com/news/aqua-pennsylvania-celebrates-completion-shenango-valley-water-treatment-plant-improvement",
        "https://businessjournaldaily.com/aqua-pennsylvania-celebrates-completion-of-shenango-plant-project/"
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH7801415/JSON",
        "https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/aquas-treatment-plant-remains-on-water-watch-rode-out-emergency-but-oil-booms-remain/article_c3a307d8-3ef7-11e5-b627-4fb824288af6.html"
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        "https://www.cityofhubbard-oh.gov/waste-water/"
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        "https://www.aquawater.com/news/aqua-pennsylvania-celebrates-completion-shenango-valley-water-treatment-plant-improvement",
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