Shadyside Public Water System

• The 1990 Wegee and Pipe Creek flash flood killed 26 people and the communications failures during the response pushed Ohio to build a statewide interoperable emergency radio system.
• Shadyside sits beside the site of the R.E. Burger Power Station, a coal plant that burned on the Ohio River bank just south of town for 67 years, from 1944 to 2011.
• Blue flags sprouting in Shadyside yards in 2026 are not village markings - they are a U.S. EPA lead service line study being run with the engineering firm Arcadis.
• Shadyside is a genuinely quiet publisher: no consumer confidence report, no rate schedule and no utility ordinance appear anywhere on the village website - the water department's public footprint is a phone number, a…

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• 1879The railroad reached the area, and Shadyside began to develop along the Ohio River.
• 1901The town site was platted; the name came from a local tree-lined farm.
• 1944The R.E. Burger coal-fired power station began generating just south of Shadyside; it ran until 2011.
• 1990On June 14 a flash flood - three to six inches of rain in under two hours on the ridges to the west - sent a reported 10- to 30-foot wall of water down Pipe Creek, Wegee Creek and Cumberland Run…

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How it is treated

The Village of Shadyside Water & Sewage Department (50 E 39th St) runs the system. EPA SDWIS lists two groundwater wells feeding the Shadyside WTP, plus the Madison Pump Station and two storage tanks (South Tank #1 and North Tank #2) on the distribution system. The only treatment processes recorded…

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Water pressure

Not published. No CCR, engineering report or pressure-zone map was located.

No rate schedule is published. The village's New Service Form states a $100 deposit to open an account (applied to the final bill, credited in full after 10 years of ownership)…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.2 ppb in 2023 (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).

Recent and current work

• Monroe Street water and sewer line replacement/repair · $59,000 · 2026 · under construction
  Approved under the prior administration and reported by Mayor Meintel in July 2026 as beginning soon; needed because of a hillside slip. The village solicitor…
• U.S. EPA lead service line study of village water lines · 2026 · under construction
  Run by EPA in partnership with Arcadis; the blue flags appearing in residents' yards in mid-2026 mark the survey, not village work.

Source: visitshadysideohio.com

Planned or needed

• Wastewater facility evaluation · 2026 · planned
  Listed among the priority projects in the village's 2026 revenue certification to the Belmont County Auditor; no cost has been stated publicly.

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No drought, aquifer-yield or plant-capacity data is published for this system. What the record does show is administrative rather than contamination strain: two non-health-based compliance violations have been open since 2020 and 2026, the village publishes no annual water quality report online, and its current infrastructure work is…

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Sanitary

The village runs its own sanitary sewer through the Village of Shadyside Water & Sewage Department (50 E 39th St; director Zac Clift). A wastewater facility evaluation is on the village's 2026 priority project list. No plant name, capacity, receiving stream or enforcement history was located in published sources.

Storm

Not published.

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