Napoleon City

• Napoleon's plant pumped 388 million gallons of raw Maumee River water uphill to the Wauseon reservoir in 2025 - and the pipe can be reversed to pull that stored water back by gravity when the river is unusable, which is…
• The city's water plant is one of fewer than ten in Ohio using ultraviolet disinfection, added as part of the 2015-2018 conversion to reverse-osmosis membrane softening.
• Campbell's largest soup plant is in Napoleon, turning out more than 619 million cans of soup, 678 million containers of V8 and 136 million jars of Prego and Pace a year.
• A July 2026 fertilizer and ammonia spill upstream on Huston Creek killed an estimated 18,000-20,000 fish along about 11 miles of the Maumee - the same river the city drinks from - after bacteria consuming the ammonia…

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• 1992City installed its current Maumee River raw-water intake facility on West Riverview Ave.
• 1997-1998$3.8 million wastewater plant expansion raised peak hydraulic capacity to 7.5 MGD.
• 20102.5 million-gallon equalization basin and UV disinfection units added at the wastewater plant to capture and treat wet-weather/combined-sewer flow.
• 2015-2018Three-year, $17.8 million rehabilitation converted the lime-soda softening plant to a nanofiltration/reverse-osmosis membrane softening facility with UV disinfection; completed fall 2018.
• 2021-2025Multi-year, roughly $12 million renovation of the wastewater treatment plant (new headworks building, third primary settling tank, recirculation building and pumps, screw presses) completed…
• 2026A July liquid-fertilizer (ammonia) release into Huston Creek in Flatrock Township, followed by failure of containment dams on July 11, killed an estimated 18,000-20,000 fish over about 11 miles of…

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How it is treated

Surface water from a Maumee River intake. Pretreatment with sodium permanganate and carbon in contact basins; coagulation with aluminum chlorohydrate; four-stage vertical flocculation; sedimentation with plate settlers; rapid sand filters; 1-micron cartridge filters; nanofiltration and…

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Water pressure

Not published. System storage is two underground clearwells (150,000 and 1,000,000 gallons) plus a north tower (750,000 gallons) and a south tower (200,000 gallons), with three…

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$12.93 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $66 a month for water.

Codified Ordinance 931.07 (Ord. 086-20, passed 2-1-21), rate steps effective through the 2024 schedule, which the code library shows as current: inside-corporation commodity…

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EPA compliance record

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

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Recent and current work

• Water treatment plant conversion to reverse-osmosis/nanofiltration membrane softening with UV · $18 million · 2015-2018 · completed
  Three-phase rehabilitation of the former lime-soda softening plant; cost reported at the 2019 unveiling.
• Wastewater treatment plant 2.5 MG equalization basin, 30 MGD screw pump station, 10 MGD UV disinfection and… · 2010 · completed
  Ohio EPA-mandated wet-weather storage that allows combined-sewer overflow to receive primary-equivalent treatment and UV rather than going straight to the…
• Wastewater treatment plant renovation (headworks building, third primary settling tank, recirculation… · $12 million · 2021-2025 · completed
  Construction began June 2021; cost reported by local press (Northwest Signal); the article itself was rate-limited during verification, so treat the figure as…

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Ohio EPA treats all Ohio surface water as highly susceptible to contamination, and Napoleon's CCR says the drinking water source protection area contains agriculture, septic systems, oil and gas activity, combined sewer overflows, wastewater discharges, roadways and railways. The practical exposure is upstream events on the Maumee: the…

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Sanitary

City wastewater treatment plant at 735 E. Washington St., built 1958 and rehabilitated in 1982, expanded in 1997-98 for $3.8 million. Average daily flow 2.6 MGD, maximum daily 4.7 MGD, peak hydraulic capacity 7.5 MGD. Treatment is screening, primary settling, two 55-foot trickling-filter biotowers, three final settling tanks (761,240…

Storm

Partly combined: the city's west and south sides have combined sewers, and Napoleon files an annual combined sewer overflow public notification report with Ohio EPA. The 2.5 MG equalization basin with integrated 10 MGD UV lets overflow be treated instead of…

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