Toronto

• Toronto, Ohio was originally Newburg Landing, then Sloane's Station after the railroad arrived in 1856, before incorporating in 1881 as Toronto — named for Toronto, Ontario at the suggestion of a local fire-clay…
• Water and sewer are billed at identical rates, so every gallon is effectively charged twice: a 10,000-gallon month costs $136.00 for water and another $136.00 for sewage.
• The city keeps an emergency interconnection with the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District as a backup supply, but has not needed to use it in any recently reported year.
• Titanium Metals Corporation, which arrived in 1957, is the city's major employer — the last chapter of an industrial run that included sewer pipe, terra cotta, paving brick, glass, coal mining, and the American China…
• Toronto sells water wholesale beyond its own borders: its downstream service population of nearly 25,000 is more than four times the roughly 5,700 people inside the city.

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• 1856The Cleveland-Pittsburgh Railroad reached the village, then known as Newburg (or Newberg Landing); it was subsequently renamed Sloane's Station for William B. Sloane, who donated land for the station.
• 1881The village incorporated under the name Toronto, after Toronto, Ontario. The name was suggested by pioneer manufacturer Thomas M. Daniels, whose business associate W. F. Dunsbaugh — chief stockholder…
• 1931Toronto incorporated as a city; Harold Smith became its first mayor, and the youngest in the state.
• 1957Titanium Metals Corporation of America (TIMET) arrived, following Hancock Manufacturing in 1945, as the older sewer pipe, terra cotta, brick, glass, and clay industries wound down.
• 1960Population peaked at 7,780; it had fallen to 5,303 by the 2020 census.
• 2019Cryptosporidium detected in 2 of 9 raw Ohio River intake samples during source-water monitoring; not detected in finished water.

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How it is treated

Surface water drawn from the Ohio River and treated at the city's water plant, with the Water Department listed at 950 Main Street and staffed around the clock. The CCRs report Total Organic Carbon percent-removal and turbidity as treatment techniques and a chlorine residual, indicating…

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Water pressure

Not published. No pressure figure or pressure-zone map appears in the 2023 or 2025 CCR or on the Water Department page.

$13.50 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $55 a month for water.

Effective January 2024. Not a flat rate: the published schedule sets a $28.00 minimum covering the first 2,000 gallons, then $13.50 per additional 1,000 gallons. Sewage is billed…

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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:

• 2018Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

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

Recent and current work

• North Pump Station Impact Report · 2026 · completed
  A document dated 2 February 2026 listed on the Sewage Department page. It is a report, not a capital project, and its contents are not published online, so no…

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Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the Ohio River supply susceptible to contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, home sewage disposal system discharges, atmospheric deposition, combined sewer overflows, runoff from urban, residential, mining, and agricultural areas, oil and gas production and…

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Sanitary

City-owned Sewage Department at 1400 S. River Avenue, Toronto, under Superintendent Joe Adamovich. Sewer is billed on the same volumetric schedule as water. Treatment plant capacity, process, receiving stream, and any CSO or consent decree status are not published in available city documents — though the Ohio EPA source water assessment…

Storm

Not detailed in available city documents; no dedicated stormwater fee identified in the published utility rate schedule, which lists only water, sewage, and garbage.

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