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  "pwsid": "OH8752812",
  "name": "Northwestern W and SD - Toledo Svc Area",
  "county": "Wood",
  "population": 19758,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "erie",
  "label": "Lake Erie",
  "bodies": [
    "Lake Erie"
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  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Northwestern Water and Sewer District's Toledo service area buys all water from Toledo, sourced from Lake Erie via Collins Park WTP.",
  "urls": [
    "https://toledo.oh.gov/departments/public-works/water/water-treatment"
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1993",
        "The district was established as the Wood County Regional Water and Sewer District, chartered under ORC 6119, taking over the water and sewer operations of the Wood County Sanitary Engineer…"
      ],
      [
        "1942",
        "Toledo's two-story Lake Erie water intake, the source of this service area's water, was constructed. It sits less than a mile from the City of Oregon's intake and farther offshore, beyond the normal…"
      ],
      [
        "2002",
        "The district opened its main facility on Middleton Pike in Bowling Green; it was expanded in 2013."
      ],
      [
        "2014",
        "Collins Park operators reported an elevated microcystin sample to Ohio EPA on August 1; a harmful algal bloom had settled over the intake and finished-water microcystin reached 3.19 micrograms per…"
      ],
      [
        "4Q 2022",
        "Under OAC 3745-81-24, the Toledo Service Area triggered into mandatory disinfection-byproduct sampling at its designated master meter locations because of exceedances of the MCL and/or operational…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "The district owns no treatment plant in this service area; it buys fully treated water from the City of Toledo and distributes it. Toledo's plant (Collins Park) draws Lake Erie surface water through a 108-inch line from a 1942 intake and treats it by coagulation, flocculation, lime softening…",
    "press": "Not published. No psi figure appears in the district's CCR, rate materials or project documents for the Walbridge / Stony Ridge / Luckey service area.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 6.05,
      "n": "CAUTION: these are DISTRICT charges only. Effective January 1, 2026 the district bills an average residential customer using 7,500 gallons a month $45.34 for water (up $0.35 from…",
      "m": 45.34
    },
    "imp": [
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        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "55.8",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "No violation on the compliance average, but individual detections ranged 16.5-84.2 ppb, above the 80 ppb MCL at the…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "18.9",
        "ppb",
        "60 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "Range 6.3-28.8 ppb. No violation. Master-meter LRAAs were 7.0 and 22.4 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine",
        "1.13",
        "ppm",
        "MRDL 4 ppm",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.03-1.31 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "<4",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 31 samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.023",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 31 samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
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        "Nitrate",
        "1.22",
        "ppm",
        "10 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "City of Toledo finished water, range <0.10-2.36 ppm."
      ],
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        "Fluoride",
        "1.00",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "City of Toledo finished water, range 0.98-1.06 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.23",
        "NTU",
        "TT: 0.3 NTU in…",
        "2025",
        "Highest Toledo result; 100% of monthly samples met the limit."
      ],
      [
        "PFOA",
        "0.0012",
        "ppb",
        "4.0 ppt (0.004…",
        "2025",
        "UCMR5 sampling of Toledo finished water; average 1.2 ppt, well under the 2024 federal MCL."
      ],
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        "PFOS",
        "0.0010",
        "ppb",
        "4.0 ppt (0.004…",
        "2025",
        "UCMR5 sampling of Toledo finished water; average 1.0 ppt, under the federal MCL."
      ]
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    "proj": [
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        "WL-100/101 Valve Improvements",
        null,
        "2025-2026",
        "under construction",
        "Replacement or rehabilitation of valves and appurtenances on the district's 20-inch and 30-inch prestressed concrete cylinder pipe transmission water mains in…"
      ],
      [
        "100 Area Water Line Improvements (Oregon Road and Sheffield Place)",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Water line improvements in the district's 100 area. No cost published."
      ],
      [
        "Tracy Road Waterline Replacement (Florence Ave. to Wales Rd.)",
        null,
        "2024",
        "completed",
        "Waterline replacement in the Northwood/Walbridge corridor; a 2026 update shows continuing waterline work closing Tracy Road from Wales Road to McNerney Drive.…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Water service line material identification excavations",
        null,
        "2026",
        "under construction",
        "District crews excavating to identify water service line materials in Northwood, Rossford, Weston, McComb and McClure under the federal Lead and Copper Rule…"
      ],
      [
        "Belmont Area Water Main Improvements (WL#146)",
        null,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Listed on the district's 2026 project page. Outside the immediate Walbridge/Stony Ridge/Luckey area; no cost or schedule published."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Western Lake Erie is the district's single point of failure. Ohio EPA treats all surface waters as susceptible by nature, and the Toledo intake's critical assessment zone is specifically identified as vulnerable to spills from commercial shipping and recreational boating, river dredging disposal sediments, air deposition, point and…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The district owns and operates the sanitary collection system in this service area but does not treat the wastewater. Sewage from Rossford, Walbridge, Northwood, Ottawa Hills and several townships goes to the City of Toledo's Bay View Water Reclamation Plant, which reached a peak hydraulic capacity of 400 million gallons per day after…",
      "st": "Not documented. No district stormwater utility, fee or combined-sewer detail for the Walbridge, Stony Ridge or Luckey area could be substantiated. Toledo charges its own city residents $3.80 a month for single-family stormwater, but that applies inside…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "This service area owns not one filter, pump station intake or clarifier for treatment: 100% of its water arrives already finished from Toledo's Collins Park plant, and the district's job is transmission mains, valves…",
      "Collins Park is the largest water-softening plant on Lake Erie, filtering an average of about 75 million gallons a day, and it can push 181 million gallons a day at full design loading, with 70 million gallons of…",
      "In 2014 a mat of blue-green algae parked itself over an intake pipe built in 1942 and took drinking water away from roughly half a million people for three days.",
      "The district grew out of the 1993 reorganization of the Wood County Sanitary Engineer's water and sewer operations and now serves over 20,000 customers across five counties (Wood, Sandusky, Henry, Hancock and Lucas)…",
      "The district runs 13 'WaterShed' vending machines that dispense public drinking water, and hands out $500 WATER grants to local teachers for water-focused classroom projects."
    ],
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        "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL100_OH8752812.pdf",
        "https://www.circleofblue.org/2014/world/toledo-issues-emergency-warning-residents-drink-water/",
        "https://www.nrdc.org/stories/algae-almost-ate-toledo"
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      "treatment": [
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        "https://toledo.oh.gov/departments/public-works/water/water-treatment"
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      "rates": [
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        "https://toledo.oh.gov/residents/water/rates"
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      "projects": [
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        "https://www.nwwsd.org/engineering-info/projects/",
        "https://www.nwwsd.org/news-releases/district-project-update-69/"
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        "https://www.nwwsd.org/news-releases/district-project-update-69/"
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        "https://www.nwwsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_CCR_WL100_OH8752812.pdf",
        "https://www.nrdc.org/stories/algae-almost-ate-toledo",
        "https://www.circleofblue.org/2014/world/toledo-issues-emergency-warning-residents-drink-water/"
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        "https://www.nwwsd.org/customer-info/rates-2/",
        "https://toledo.oh.gov/residents/water/rates"
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        "https://toledo.oh.gov/departments/public-works/water/water-treatment",
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    "caption": "Main Street buildings in Luckey, Ohio, one of the towns served by the Northwestern Water and Sewer District's Toledo service area",
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