Galion City

• Galion's water plant is rated for 4 million gallons a day but treats only about 1.3 million — roughly a third of capacity most days.
• The city's three reservoirs hold about 527 million gallons of raw water for a system serving roughly 10,450 people, but the source reservoir itself is tiny: Ohio EPA measured Amann Reservoir at just 24 acres and 13.1…
• Galion's water is not really from Galion — Amann Reservoir sits south of town in Morrow County, and the water is pumped from there into two more reservoirs before it ever reaches the plant.
• Water rates in Galion are set administratively by the Safety-Service Director; only sewer and electric rates go through a City Council ordinance.
• If Galion ever runs short, it can open a connection to the City of Crestline — an option it did not use in either 2024 or 2025.

Source: galion.citygalion.citydam.assets.ohio.gov

• 2003Ohio EPA completed a Source Water Assessment for Galion, finding the system susceptible to agricultural runoff, industrial/commercial sources, oil and gas production activity and…
• 2019Ohio EPA published its Amann Reservoir inland lake water quality report (2016-17 sampling), classifying the reservoir as eutrophic to hyper-eutrophic and placing it on a watch list for nitrate.
• 2023-08-31The City and Ohio EPA agreed to terms on Director's Final Findings and Orders, setting deadlines for a list of plant projects and requiring the city to come into compliance for Total Trihalomethanes…
• 2024Galion operated under a conditioned license to operate its public water system, with conditions requiring it to address ongoing violations; the same conditioned status continued in 2025.
• 2024-04Clarifier rehabilitation completed under the EPA orders.
• 2024-06Elevated tank mixing completed under the EPA orders.

Source: galion.citygalion.citydam.assets.ohio.gov

How it is treated

Surface water only, no wells. Raw water is the Rocky Fork of the Olentangy River, impounded in Amann Reservoir south of Galion in Morrow County, then pumped into the Amick and Powers upground reservoirs, which feed the treatment plant at 625 W Railroad St. Conventional treatment — clarification and…

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Water pressure

Not published — no citywide psi figure appears in the City of Galion's Water Department pages, either annual drinking water report, the fee schedule, or the Ohio EPA lake report.…

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$13.81 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $80 a month for water.

From the City of Galion Consolidated Fee Schedule (updated March 1, 2023), the most recent schedule published on the city site; it shows identical in-town water rates in the Jan…

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EPA compliance record

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

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2023Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.083 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2022Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.086 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2021Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.081 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

7 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 4 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Clarifier rehabilitation · 2024 · completed
  Completed April 2024 under the August 2023 Ohio EPA Director's Final Findings and Orders. Cost not published by the city.
• Elevated tank mixing · 2024 · completed
  Completed June 2024 under the same EPA orders, to reduce water age and TTHM formation in storage. Cost not published.
• General plant improvements · 2025 · completed
  Reported complete November 2025 in the 2025 CCR (still listed as ongoing in the 2024 CCR). Cost not published.
• Clearwell mixing and aeration · 2025 · under construction
  Listed as ongoing in the 2025 CCR; the 2024 CCR described it as conditional ('if necessary'). Aeration strips TTHM out of finished water. Cost not published in…

Source: galion.citygalion.city

Planned or needed

• TTHM compliance demonstration under the 2023 Ohio EPA orders · 2026 · needed
  Once the ordered projects are complete, the city has 12 months to achieve TTHM compliance and must then maintain it for six consecutive quarters. Until that is…
• Amann pump house / pump station work · planned
  Reported by the local investigative outlet Marion Watch, citing Ohio EPA compliance schedules, as a remaining item with plans due to Ohio EPA in March 2026 and…

Source: galion.citynews.marionwatch.com

The vulnerability here is water quality in a very small, very shallow reservoir, not scarcity. Ohio EPA's inland lake report on Amann Reservoir (2016-17 sampling, published July 2019) found a lake of only 24 acres with a maximum depth of 4.0 meters (13.1 feet), 262 acre-feet behind a 550-foot dam plus another 220 acre-feet behind an…

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Sanitary

The City of Galion operates its own sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment plant, billed separately from water on the customer's utility bill. Sewer is charged on metered water usage per 100 cubic feet using the same ladder as water: in-town $7.51/month minimum plus $10.33 per 100 cu ft for the first block, declining to $4.13…

Storm

Galion charges a stormwater fee of $6.00 per month as a flat rate to all residential customers; undeveloped property is not charged. Non-single-family and commercial property is billed by equivalent residential units, where one ERU is 2,204 square feet of…

Source: galion.citygalion.citynews.marionwatch.com

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