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  "name": "Perrysburg City",
  "county": "Wood",
  "population": 27000,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "erie",
  "label": "Lake Erie",
  "bodies": [
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  ],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Perrysburg buys all its finished water from Toledo, whose Collins Park Water Treatment Plant draws raw water from Lake Erie.",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1813",
        "Construction of Fort Meigs begins on the Maumee River in February under General William Henry Harrison, decades before any piped water system (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)."
      ],
      [
        "1816",
        "Perrysburg is surveyed and platted by a federal survey team (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)."
      ],
      [
        "1854",
        "A cholera epidemic devastates the town, with more than 100 deaths and a roughly two-month shutdown (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)."
      ],
      [
        "1859",
        "The railroad reaches Perrysburg with the completion of the Dayton and Michigan Railroad (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited)."
      ],
      [
        "1991",
        "Perrysburg's Water Pollution Control division begins EPA-mandated sewer separation projects, installing storm sewers separate from the sanitary system."
      ],
      [
        "2014",
        "Toledo, Perrysburg's sole wholesale water supplier, issues a do-not-drink advisory from the evening of August 1 until late on August 4 after a toxic blue-green algae bloom forms directly over its…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Perrysburg treats none of its own water. It buys finished water through an interconnection and wholesale supply contract with the City of Toledo, whose Collins Park Water Treatment Plant draws raw water from Lake Erie, filters about 75 million gallons a day, and is described by Toledo as the…",
    "press": "Two pressure zones, fed by two supply reservoirs, two booster stations and four distribution tanks (Ohio EPA Limited Environmental Review, August 2026). No psi figures are…",
    "rate": {
      "g": 14.43,
      "n": "City 2026 Water and Sewer Rates sheet, updated 2/24/2026: inside the city, water is $32.40 for usage under 300 cubic feet and $107.97 per 1,000 cubic feet above that; at 7,480…",
      "m": 57.74
    },
    "imp": [
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        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "65.9",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Perrysburg distribution system; range 20.4-69.8 ppb. About 82% of the MCL — the highest-relative reading in this…"
      ],
      [
        "Total haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "13.3",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Perrysburg distribution system; range 5.0-16.6 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine",
        "1.10",
        "ppm",
        "MRDL 4",
        "2025",
        "Perrysburg distribution, EBPS sampling points; range 1.02-1.18 ppm. Toledo's plant effluent measured 1.39 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "<4",
        "ppb",
        "action level 15…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 30 samples over the action level; below the reporting limit."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.015",
        "ppm",
        "action level…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 30 samples over the action level. Value as printed in the CCR, whose lead-and-copper table layout is garbled."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.00",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Toledo plant data; range 0.98-1.06 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate (as nitrogen)",
        "1.22",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Toledo plant data; range below 0.10 to 2.36 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.23",
        "NTU",
        "treatment…",
        "2025",
        "Toledo plant data; 100% of 2025 samples were below 0.3 NTU."
      ],
      [
        "Sodium",
        "11.67",
        "ppm",
        "no MCL",
        "2025",
        "Toledo plant data; range 7.47-20.90 ppm, about 2.8 mg per 8-ounce glass. Reported for people watching dietary sodium."
      ],
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        "PFOA",
        "1.2",
        "ppt",
        "MCL 4.0 ppt",
        "2025",
        "Toledo finished water under UCMR 5, reported as 0.0012 ppb. Perrysburg's own distribution samples were below the…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Sanitary and storm sewer separation program",
        null,
        "1991",
        "under construction",
        "EPA-mandated separation of storm from sanitary sewers, running since 1991; the city says Water Pollution Control is currently building new facilities to…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Water Main Replacement Contract 11",
        3724613,
        "2027",
        "planned",
        "Ohio EPA WSRLA loan FS390748-0011, financed at the September below-market rate of 3.19% on a 20-year term, saving about $592,000 versus market. About 10,532…"
      ],
      [
        "Stormwater Utility Program",
        null,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "The city is developing a stormwater utility to fund maintenance and improvement of the separated storm system, with a service charge and a credit program for…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Perrysburg has no source of its own, so its exposure is entirely Toledo's Lake Erie intake. Ohio EPA's source water assessment for Toledo finds the supply susceptible to future contamination, listing accidental spills from commercial shipping and recreational boating, river dredging spoil, air deposition, point and nonpoint industrial…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Perrysburg runs its own 8 million gallon per day wastewater treatment plant; treated flow enters the Maumee River. Household and business wastewater travels to that plant through sanitary lines that have been progressively separated from storm sewers since 1991 under an EPA mandate. Sewer rates inside the city for a single-meter…",
      "st": "Separated storm sewers collect street and catch-basin runoff and discharge it untreated directly to the Maumee River, so the city's stormwater work is about source control and regulation rather than treatment. With separation largely accomplished, Perrysburg…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Perrysburg has no water plant at all: every drop is bought already treated from Toledo's Collins Park plant, which Toledo calls the largest water softening plant on Lake Erie.",
      "The city's 156 miles of main range from 1.5 inches to 30 inches across, and the 4-inch lines under some of the oldest streets are the ones now queued for replacement.",
      "Perrysburg's backup connection to the Northwestern Water and Sewer District is so rarely needed that the city's own report says it gets used about zero days a year.",
      "Water is expensive here by Ohio standards: Ohio EPA put the average Perrysburg residential water bill at $648 a year against a state average of $481.",
      "Both of Perrysburg's 2025 drinking water violations were paperwork — late lead notifications — not contamination."
    ],
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        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/224/Water-Pollution-Control",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1063"
      ],
      "treatment": [
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        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF",
        "https://toledo.oh.gov/departments/public-works/water/water-treatment"
      ],
      "pressure": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1178/2026-Website-Water-Sewer-Rates",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1063"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/224/Water-Pollution-Control"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=142",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/350/Stormwater-Utility-Program"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1063",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF"
      ],
      "sewer": [
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        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/224/Water-Pollution-Control",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/350/Stormwater-Utility-Program",
        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1178/2026-Website-Water-Sewer-Rates"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
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        "https://www.perrysburgoh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1498/11243-Perrysburg-Water-Main-Replacement-Contract-11-Final-FNSI-and-LER-PDF",
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