Columbiana City

• Columbiana's finished water leaves the plant at pH 9.4, a signature of conventional lime softening; the CCR notes the water is stable to slightly scale-forming.
• The 2016-2018 plant replaced one that had been in service since 1934, and customers started paying an $11 monthly surcharge in 2014 purely to prove to USDA Rural Development that the city could repay the construction…
• The city is prospecting for water like a mining company: it has already run a fracture trace study along its raw water lines and plans an electrical imaging survey over 23.2 acres north of the plant to pinpoint where to…
• Of the 29 analytes tested in the 2025 UCMR 5 rounds, only lithium was detected; the six regulated PFAS compounds were not found.
• The system ran 195 samples and 96 bacterial tests in 2025 from 48 daily sampling points, with no total coliform detections and no violations.

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• 1934Original City of Columbiana water treatment plant and raw water well field constructed.
• 1954Major modifications to the water treatment plant and well field.
• 1977Second round of major modifications to the plant and well field; the resulting facility had a peak capacity of 1.0 MGD and nine raw water wells.
• 2006City concluded the existing plant was beyond its useful life and could not be modified or expanded to meet demand or current standards; authorized design of an entirely new plant.
• 2014Water customers began paying an $11.00 monthly surcharge to build a fund demonstrating to USDA Rural Development that the city could repay a construction loan.
• 2016Construction began on an all-new 2.25 MGD water treatment plant just north of the old plant site, with two new raw water wells and about 19,100 linear feet of raw water main; completed over two years…

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How it is treated

Groundwater from 11 wells (grouped in six well fields) in the aquifer assigned to the Allegheny Formation, Pennsylvanian age. The 2016-2018 replacement plant has a peak capacity of 2.25 MGD and treats by conventional lime softening, aeration, coagulation, sedimentation, stabilization, chlorination…

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Water pressure

Not published. No pressure figures or pressure-zone map appear in the CCR or on the city site. The 2025 CCR does report two finished-water storage tanks of 1,000,000 and 500,000…

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No water rate schedule is published on columbianaohio.gov, and the city's codified ordinances (American Legal Publishing) blocked automated retrieval, so no per-1,000-gallon…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 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

• New 2.25 MGD water treatment plant, two new raw water wells and 19,100 ft of raw water main; demolition of… · $20 million · 2016-2018 · completed
  Funded with an $8,439,000 USDA Rural Development grant and an $11,224,000 USDA-RD loan, with the balance from Ohio Public Works Commission funds and direct…
• Crestview 8-inch raw water line and two new wells · $1.2 million · 2025 · completed
  11,408 linear feet (2.16 miles) installed by directional boring, capacity 1.382 MGD; line completed May 2025. The CCR gives about $1.3 million in full funding…
• Standby generator for wells #1 and #2 · $77,614 · 2025 · completed
  Funded largely by a $50,000 grant; the Water Department paid $27,614.

Source: 2025wqr.columbianaohio.gov

Planned or needed

• Second well-site standby generator · $42,486 · 2026 · under construction
  Delivered May 20, 2026, with the automatic transfer switch due in June; awaiting a concrete pad and wiring. Once installed the plant will have 1.38 MGD of…
• Electrical imaging (EI) geophysical survey for new well sites north of the water plant · $21,000 · unknown · planned
  About 23.2 acres to be surveyed; the CCR estimates $17,500 to $21,000. A fracture trace study, the first step, is already complete. Overhead and underground…
• Additional production wells along the new and existing raw water lines · planned
  Goal is to secure long-term supply and to raise raw water capacity from 1.38 MGD to the plant's 2.25 MGD maximum.
• Additional standby generators to cover the full 2.25 MGD plant capacity · needed
  The Water Department says it is seeking grants and other funding.

Source: 2025wqr.columbianaohio.gov

The Ohio EPA source water assessment rates the likelihood of the aquifer becoming contaminated as relatively low to moderate under existing conditions, and the city has an active wellhead protection posture plus a backflow and cross-connection program. The binding constraint is quantity, not quality: the plant can treat 2.25 MGD but raw…

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Sanitary

The City of Columbiana operates its own Waste Water Department for sanitary sewer service (utility billing 330-482-2173 option 1; after-hours emergencies via police dispatch 330-482-9292). No treatment plant description, capacity, receiving stream or rate schedule is published on the city website.

Storm

Not published; no storm sewer or stormwater utility information appears on the city site.

Source: columbianaohio.gov

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