{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8704203", "name": "Northwestern W and SD - Oregon Wtln 200", "county": "Wood", "population": 9629, "producer": false, "source_class": "erie", "label": "Lake Erie", "bodies": [ "Lake Erie" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH8704203", "OH4800911" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1963", "The City of Oregon builds its Lake Erie water treatment plant - the plant that still supplies this district's Waterline 200." ], [ "1993", "Wood County Common Pleas Judge Charles Kurfess approves formation of what is now The Northwestern Water & Sewer District (originally the Wood County Regional Water and Sewer District), chartered…" ], [ "1994", "The district begins operations on January 1, taking over the water and sewer operations of the Wood County Sanitary Engineer." ], [ "2001-2005", "Oregon completes a five-phase expansion of the plant to 16 MGD: Phase 1 adds 8 MGD of filter capacity and a high-pressure pump (Sept 2001); Phase 2 adds a chemical building and 4 MGD of flocculation…" ] ], "treat": "The district treats none of its own water - Waterline 200 buys finished water wholesale from the City of Oregon. Oregon's plant (built 1963, expanded to 16 MGD, 667,000 gallons per hour) draws from a fully submerged intake crib in Lake Erie near Reno Beach, 1.5 miles offshore in 16 feet of water…", "press": "Not published. Neither the district's Waterline 200 CCR nor the City of Oregon's water plant page gives a distribution pressure, psi range, or pressure-zone map. The only…", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "The district publishes an average bill rather than a plain volumetric rate. For 2026 its rates page puts the average residential customer using 7,500 gallons a month at $45.34 for…", "m": 45.34 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "61.9", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Range 36.2-66.1 ppb, sampled in the district's own distribution system. Comfortably compliant but the highest-loaded…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "13.8", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 9.6-16.2 ppb; district distribution samples." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "0.82", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 0.60-1.05 ppm; district distribution samples." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "<4", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 21 samples above the action level. The district publishes its service line inventory as a downloadable spreadsheet." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.024", "ppm", "1.3 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 21 samples above the action level." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.21", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Range 0.50-1.21 ppm, measured at the City of Oregon plant; Oregon fluoridates." ], [ "Nitrate", "3.52", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Range ND-3.52 ppm at the Oregon plant - the highest nitrate in this batch, consistent with a western Lake Erie intake…" ], [ "Barium", "0.01", "ppm", "2", "2025", "Measured at the Oregon plant." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.25", "NTU", "TT (0.3 NTU in…", "2025", "Oregon plant's highest 2025 result; 100% of monthly samples met the limit." ], [ "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)", "2.54", "ratio", "TT (must exceed…", "2025", "Lowest running annual average of TOC removed versus TOC required; range 2.54-4.12. Above 1.0 means compliance." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Northwood Farnstead Waterline Replacement", 978000, "2025", "completed", "District project investment of $978,000 in Northwood, one of this system's two anchor towns, including meter pit installation. The district's project update…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Western Lake Erie, and the district's own CCR is unusually blunt about it. All surface waters are considered susceptible; for the Oregon intake specifically the CCR lists accidental spills and releases from commercial shipping and recreational boating, sediments from river dredging disposal, air contaminant deposition, point and nonpoint…", "sew": { "s": "The district provides sanitary sewer across parts of this service area alongside the water it resells. Its recent project list includes sanitary sewer improvements and manhole repairs throughout the Village of Millbury and sewer maintenance on East Broadway Street between Walbridge and Wales Roads in Northwood and Perrysburg/Lake…", "st": "Not published. The district is a water and sanitary sewer utility; no stormwater utility, MS4 permit or storm sewer information for Northwood or Millbury was found on district or municipal sources." }, "fun": [ "Northwood gets its water two different ways depending on which side of town you live on: the west end from the City of Toledo, the east end from Oregon by way of this district.", "The water arrives from a crib sitting completely submerged 16 feet down and 1.5 miles off the Lake Erie shore, drawn through a 48-inch line to a pump station near Anchor Point Marina, then pushed 5 miles through 36-inch…", "Treatment starts before the water has gone anywhere: potassium permanganate is dosed right at the lake intake to stop zebra and quagga mussels from colonizing the conduit.", "This district resells water but treats none of it - the entire Waterline 200 system is a distribution network hanging off one 1963 municipal plant in a neighboring county.", "Millbury, one of this system's two anchor towns, was hit by an EF4 tornado in 2010." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/about/the-district/a-brief-history-of-the-district/", "https://oregonohio.org/departments/water-plant/" ], "treatment": [ "https://oregonohio.org/departments/water-plant/", "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL200_OH8704203.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://oregonohio.org/departments/water-plant/", "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL200_OH8704203.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/customer-info/rates-2/", "https://www.nwwsd.org/faqs/district-board-approves-marginal-rate-increase-for-2025/" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL200_OH8704203.pdf", "https://www.nwwsd.org/water/consumer-confidence-reports/" ], "projects": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/news-releases/district-project-update-121/" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL200_OH8704203.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.nwwsd.org/sewer/sewer-service/", "https://www.nwwsd.org/news-releases/northwestern-water-and-sewer-district-projects/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwood,_Ohio", "https://www.nwwsd.org/customer-info/rates-2/" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwood,_Ohio", "https://oregonohio.org/departments/water-plant/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbury,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43619", "share": 0.7651, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43447", "share": 0.7134, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43412", "share": 0.0154, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43430", "share": 0.025, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "43465", "share": 0.0163, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "43551", "share": 0.0005, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8704203.jpg", "caption": "Residential street in Northwood, Ohio, one of the towns served by this Lake Erie water system", "credit": "Nyttend", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8704203/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8704203.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), \"Northwestern W and SD - Oregon Wtln 200 · OH8704203\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8704203/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }