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AECOM describes the replacement plant as a 21,000-square-foot integrated membrane facility combining ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis, achieving greater than…", "press": "Not published. No pressure figures, hydraulic model, or pressure-zone map could be found in the city's CCRs, water and sewer pages, or public works pages.", "rate": { "g": 10.5, "n": "City-published schedule: water consumption $10.50 per 1,000 gallons with a $21.00 per month minimum consumption charge, plus a separate monthly meter unit charge - $25.00 for a…", "m": 67 }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "61.4", "ppb", "80 ppb MCL", "2024", "Range of detections 33.6 to 83.8 ppb; individual samples exceeded 80 ppb but compliance is on a locational running…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "26.9", "ppb", "60 ppb MCL", "2024", "Range 18.2 to 34.0 ppb." ], [ "Nitrate", "3.13", "ppm", "10 ppm MCL", "2024", "Range <1.0 to 3.13 ppm; agricultural runoff in the Sandusky River watershed." ], [ "Atrazine", "0.083", "ppb", "3 ppb MCL", "2024", "Runoff from herbicide used on row crops." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.22", "ppm", "4 ppm MCL", "2024", "Range 0.87 to 1.22 ppm." ], [ "Copper", "0.11", "ppm", "1.35 ppm action…", "2024", "Range <0.01 to 0.7 ppm; all 20 samples below the action level." ], [ "Lead", "<2.0", "ppb", "15.5 ppb action…", "2024", "Range <2.0 to 2.8 ppb; all 20 samples below the action level." ], [ "Chlorine", "1.48", "ppm", "4 ppm MRDL", "2024", "Range 1.33 to 1.57 ppm." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.14", "NTU", "treatment…", "2024", "Highest recorded value 0.14 NTU; 100 percent of samples met the standard." ], [ "Total organic carbon (TOC)", "2.10", "mg/L", "treatment…", "2024", "Range 1.61 to 2.10 mg/L." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Integrated membrane water treatment plant (ultrafiltration plus reverse osmosis)", null, "unknown", "completed", "21,000 square feet; replaced the 1890 lime-softening plant sited in the Sandusky River flood plain, to meet disinfection byproduct rules. Designed by AECOM…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "The Ohio EPA source water assessment treats all surface waters as susceptible to contamination, and names the specific threats to Upper Sandusky's protection area: agricultural runoff from fields and feedlots, commercial and industrial sources, leaking underground and aboveground storage tanks, home construction runoff, and quarry…", "sew": { "s": "City-operated wastewater treatment plant at 155 Indian Mill Drive, discharging to the Sandusky River under US EPA permit OH0020001 and Ohio EPA permit 2PD000039. Sewer is billed at $14.50 per 1,000 gallons with a $29.00 monthly minimum.", "st": "Partly combined. The city has eight combined sewer overflows that discharge to the Sandusky River and its tributaries, and posts 4-hour and 7-day CSO notices plus an annual CSO notification report under the US EPA's January 2018 public notification rule…" }, "fun": [ "Upper Sandusky ran the same lime-softening water plant from 1890 until the last decade or so - by the time engineers evaluated it, parts were close to 120 years old and it sat in the river's flood plain.", "Its replacement runs ultrafiltration plus reverse osmosis, a train more typical of seawater desalination than of a city of under 7,000, chosen to strip more than 90 percent of the organics that drive disinfection…", "The city still has eight combined sewer overflows discharging to the same Sandusky River it drinks from, and files 4-hour and 7-day public notices each time one runs.", "Anyone can buy water at the city's bulk station, and filling a swimming pool costs $16.50 per 1,000 gallons plus labor." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://aecom.com/projects/upper-sandusky-integrated-membrane-water-treatment-plant/" ], "treatment": [ "https://aecom.com/projects/upper-sandusky-integrated-membrane-water-treatment-plant/", "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/Document%20Center/Departments/Water%20&%20Sewer/Available%20Reports/2024_ccr.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/department/public_works/water_sewer/index.php" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/Document%20Center/Departments/Water%20&%20Sewer/Available%20Reports/2024_ccr.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://aecom.com/projects/upper-sandusky-integrated-membrane-water-treatment-plant/" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/Document%20Center/Departments/Water%20&%20Sewer/Available%20Reports/2024_ccr.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/department/public_works/water_sewer/2025_cso_reports.php", "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/department/public_works/water_sewer/index.php" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://aecom.com/projects/upper-sandusky-integrated-membrane-water-treatment-plant/", "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/department/public_works/water_sewer/2025_cso_reports.php", "https://www.uppersanduskyoh.com/department/public_works/water_sewer/index.php" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43351", "share": 0.6249, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8800511.jpg", "caption": "Historic postcard view of the Sandusky River at Upper Sandusky, Ohio", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8800511/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8800511.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), \"Upper Sandusky City · OH8800511\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8800511/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }