Reynoldsburg City

• Reynoldsburg is the 'Birthplace of the Tomato' - Alexander W. Livingston bred the Paragon there, billed as the first tomato bred for commercial use.
• The city owns no wells, no intake and no treatment plant: every drop arrives finished from Columbus through six master meters - 1.273 billion gallons in 2025.
• Which Columbus plant serves you depends on your street: E. Main and E. Broad get Hoover Reservoir surface water, State Route 256 gets Parsons Avenue groundwater.
• Reynoldsburg maintains 145.1 miles of water line and 143.8 miles of sanitary sewer but treats none of the water or sewage moving through them.

• 1908Griggs Dam dedicated on the Scioto River, the first of the Columbus reservoirs that would eventually supply suburbs like Reynoldsburg.
• 1955Hoover Dam on Big Walnut Creek dedicated; Hoover Reservoir now feeds the Hap Cremean plant that supplies most of Reynoldsburg.
• 1960sColumbus built four Ranney collector wells in southern Franklin County, part of the groundwater supply behind the Parsons Avenue plant.
• 2024Sewer rates rose 6% on Jan. 1 and the capital improvement fee rose 50% in August, funding a five-year sewer rehabilitation program.
• 2025Ordinance 61-2025, passed Dec. 15, set the water rate at $12.55 per 1,000 gallons effective Jan. 1, 2026.

How it is treated

Buys 100% finished water from Columbus through six master meters. Water entering on E. Main and E. Broad comes from the Hap Cremean plant (Hoover Reservoir surface water); water on SR 256 from the Parsons Avenue plant (groundwater). Reynoldsburg monitors chlorine daily.

Water pressure

Not published. Reynoldsburg buys finished water through six master meters and operates only distribution, so pressure is set by Columbus's supply at those meters.

$12.55 per 1,000 gallons

Ordinance 61-2025: $12.55 per 1,000 gallons effective Jan. 1, 2026, 10% senior discount on the first 10,000 gal. Sewer $12.20; stormwater $20.25 per quarter.

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.1 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

EPA compliance record · Columbus Public Water System (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.2 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2016Nitrate · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 10.5 MG/L (limit 10 MG/L) · returned to compliance

Recent and current work

• Five-year sanitary sewer rehabilitation program · $4.2 million · 2025-2029 · under construction
  Area sewer rehab across 14 neighborhoods plus manhole rehab and annual inspection/cleaning; $2.5M from cash on hand, $1.72M rate-funded.

Planned or needed

• Sewer rate adjustment to fund the capital program · 2025 · proposed
  Baker Tilly modeled 12% or 26% increases, lifting the average monthly residential sewer bill from $45.48 to $50.94 or $57.30.

Risk is inherited from Columbus: the CCR rates the Scioto River, Big Walnut Creek and the Parsons Avenue aquifer as highly susceptible to spills, the aquifer because no significant clay layer protects it. Columbus says it will add PFAS treatment if 2027 monitoring shows it cannot meet the 2029 limits.

Sanitary

No treatment plant of its own: Reynoldsburg collects sewage in 143.8 miles of city sanitary sewer and pays Columbus to treat it, about $6.0 million budgeted for the 2025 treatment contract. Columbus's combined sewers and 19 CSO outfalls are in its older core, not in Reynoldsburg.

Storm

Separate storm system billed as its own utility at $20.25 per quarter for residential customers in 2026. No major flooding problems were found in the sources reviewed.

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