Geneva City

• Geneva runs no water plant at all - every drop is bought wholesale from Aqua Ohio's Ashtabula system and pulled from an intake sitting offshore in Lake Erie.
• The city's sewage plant uses a trickling filter and discharges into Cowles Creek, a stream Ohio EPA classifies as salmonid habitat.
• Geneva gives residents an annual sewer credit for swimming pools deeper than three feet that do not drain into the sanitary sewer.
• The wastewater department has already bought two chopper pumps at $13,000 and $18,000 to deal with flushed wipes, and puts the cost of screening them out of the plant at about $1.92 million, or $768 per customer.
• Geneva publishes water quality reports back to 2018 but no water rate schedule at all.

Source: genevaohio.govgenevaohio.govgenevaohio.gov

• 1866Geneva became a village; it was incorporated as a city in 1958.
• 2019Geneva Water System participated in the fourth round of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule; manganese was detected in the distribution system at up to 31.9 ppb.
• 2023-2024Geneva Waterworks participated in UCMR 5, monitoring 29 PFAS compounds and lithium, with no detections.
• 2025January: city council tabled two ordinances dealing with water and sewer rate increases (Star Beacon; full article paywalled, headline and lede only).
• 2025System was in compliance with all water quality regulations and held a current, unconditioned license to operate.

Source: en.wikipedia.orggenevaohio.govstarbeacon.com

How it is treated

Geneva Water Works operates distribution only. It buys bulk finished water from the Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula Water System, which draws surface water from an intake offshore in Lake Erie and treats it; Geneva's water is disinfected using chlorine. The city's 2025 CCR notes that Aqua maintains…

Source: genevaohio.govecho.epa.gov

Water pressure

Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the city's water department pages, its CCRs, or its wastewater materials.

No water rate schedule could be substantiated. The city's water page carries no rates, the finance department page carries only budget ordinances, and residents pay through an…

Source: genevaohio.govgenevaohio.govgenevaohio.gov

Source: genevaohio.gov

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• OPWC Round 39 FY26 Lawn St. waterline replacement · 2026 · planned
  Listed among current city projects; funded through the Ohio Public Works Commission Round 39. No cost figure is published by the city and none is asserted here.
• SR 534 sanitary sewer project (Limited Environmental Review) · unknown · planned
  A Geneva SR 534 SRS Limited Environmental Review notice is posted on the wastewater page; scope and cost not published.
• West Main Street project, Phase 1 · 2026 · under construction
  Listed as a current city project with its own updates page; a street project that may include utility work. No cost published.

Source: genevaohio.govgenevaohio.gov

Planned or needed

• West Main Street project, Phase 2 · unknown · planned
  Listed on the city projects page with no schedule or cost.
• ACGP Streetscape, Phases I and II · unknown · planned
  Listed on the city projects page with no schedule or cost.
• Wipes screening at the wastewater treatment plant · $1.9 million · unknown · needed
  The wastewater department states an estimated $1,920,000 - more than $768 per customer - to install screening that would keep 'flushable' wipes out of the…

Source: genevaohio.govgenevaohio.gov

Geneva has no source of its own; all of its water is purchased from Aqua Ohio's Ashtabula system, which draws from Lake Erie. The 2025 CCR states that although Aqua's intake is offshore, the proximity of several onshore sources raises the source water's susceptibility, and lists municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, residential…

Source: genevaohio.govecho.epa.gov

Sanitary

City-operated. The Geneva Wastewater Treatment Plant treats by trickling filter followed by advanced treatment and discharges to Cowles Creek, which Ohio EPA designates a low-flow, warm water, salmonid habitat stream. Design capacity 2 MGD with wet weather flows to 5 MGD; collection system of about 38.3 miles of gravity sewer (6 to 30…

Storm

No separate storm water utility or fee was found. The city posts a sanitary sewer overflow annual report (2016) but publishes no storm water rate or program page.

Source: genevaohio.gov

Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.