Arcadia Village

• Fostoria owns six reservoirs covering more than 450 acres of water and 700 acres of land — but two silted in too shallow to drink from, and when the current project finishes the whole city will drink from just…
• Lake Mosier, Fostoria's Reservoir 4, is being drained and turned into a wetland; at 91 water acres and 160 land acres it was the largest of the chain.
• The city was created in 1854 by merging Rome and Risdon, and named for landowner Charles W. Foster, whose son Charles Foster went on to be governor of Ohio and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
• The 1880s northwest Ohio natural-gas boom made Fostoria a major American glass-manufacturing center.
• In 2025 the plant distributed 791.26 million gallons of drinking water — about 160,000 gallons a day for every thousand residents served.

Source: destinationsenecacounty.orgfostoriaohio.goven.wikipedia.org

• 1854City of Fostoria formed by the merger of the communities of Rome and Risdon, named for landowner Charles W. Foster.
• 1880sThe northwest Ohio natural gas boom drove rapid growth and a wave of glass-factory openings in Fostoria.
• 2024In February the city, working with ODNR, began permanently disconnecting Reservoirs 1 and 4 from the drinking water supply — both had grown too shallow to use — converting Reservoir 1 to a…
• 2025Monitoring and reporting violation: the utility failed to monitor for total microcystins during the weeks of 1/5/2025-1/18/2025. A sample was collected 1/19/2025. No health limit was exceeded.
• 2025System held an unconditioned license to operate and distributed 791.26 million gallons of drinking water.
• 2026In May, city finance staff outlined modest water and sewer rate increases to take effect in January, saying they used one-time funds where possible to hold the increases down.

Source: fostoriaohio.goven.wikipedia.org13abc.com

How it is treated

Surface water is the primary source. Raw water is pumped from the East Branch of the Portage River into a series of above-ground (upground) reservoirs, then treated at the Fostoria Water Treatment Plant by lime softening, coagulation with aluminum sulfate, sedimentation, stabilization, filtration…

Source: fostoriaohio.gov13abc.com

Water pressure

Not published in the CCR or on the city's water pages — no distribution-system psi figure is given.

Source: fostoriaohio.gov

No current rate schedule is posted on the city's reachable water and sewer pages, and the codified rate structure (Fostoria Codified Ordinances 945.05) is behind a host that…

Source: citizenportal.aifostoriaohio.gov

Source: fostoriaohio.gov

EPA compliance record · Arcadia Village

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2025Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.087 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2019Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.084 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2018Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.083 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.084 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 12 includes 8 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

5 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Fostoria City (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Recent and current work

• Reservoir 1 and Reservoir 4 disconnection and conversion · 2024-2025 · under construction
  Permanently removing Reservoirs 1 (Lake Daugherty) and 4 (Lake Mosier) from the drinking water system — both had become too shallow to use — and converting…

Source: 13abc.comwtol.com

Planned or needed

• Lead and copper tap sampling round · 2026 · planned
  The city will conduct lead and copper tap testing in August 2026 under the Lead and Copper Rule; residents can volunteer their tap by contacting the water…
• Water and sewer rate increase · 2026-2027 · planned
  Staff briefed council in May 2026 on modest increases effective in January; formal rate legislation was to be presented at a following meeting. Dollar amounts…
• Completion of transition to Reservoirs 5 and 6 as sole supply · planned
  Once the Reservoir 1 and 4 conversions finish, all of Fostoria's drinking water will come from Reservoirs 5 and 6, the newest of the six.

Source: fostoriaohio.govcitizenportal.ai13abc.com

Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the East Branch of the Portage River as having HIGH susceptibility to contamination, owing to the nature of surface water sources generally and to surrounding land uses in the watershed — the CCR is explicit that this rates potential, not current safety. Two concrete pressures: harmful algal…

Source: fostoriaohio.gov13abc.com

Sanitary

Operated by the City of Fostoria. The city is under an Ohio EPA consent order to separate stormwater from sanitary sewage — heavy rain has pushed sanitary flows into surface waters — which is the regulatory driver behind the reservoir conversion project. Plant capacity, receiving stream and the order's terms are not published on the city…

Storm

The Reservoir 1 and 4 conversions serve double duty as stormwater management, creating pools and a connecting stream to capture Portage River water during rainfall events and reduce downstream flooding. A separate stormwater utility or fee was not found in…

Source: 13abc.comwtol.com

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