North Ridgeville City

• North Ridgeville does not draw or treat a drop of its own water — it blends purchased Lake Erie water from three utilities: Avon Lake at 63.36%, Elyria at 35.26% and the Rural Lorain County Water Authority at 1.38%.
• Elyria, one of those suppliers, is several miles inland yet believes it was the first inland city in the United States to pump treated water from the Great Lakes, having made the switch from the Black River to Lake Erie…
• Elyria's 24-inch Lake Erie intake has been drawing water since 1903 and its 42-inch since 1946; zebra mussels have colonized both since 1987 but annual maintenance has kept them from clogging the pipes.
• North Ridgeville's sewage plant is not in North Ridgeville. The city wholly owns the French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in neighboring Sheffield Village, and treats Avon's and Sheffield's wastewater there too.
• Avon Lake Regional Water has piloted what is described as North America's first electrochemical drinking-water treatment process — a $6 million system using salt and electricity to brew its own 12 percent sodium…

Source: cityofelyria.orgnridgeville.orgnridgeville.org

• 1879Elyria, one of North Ridgeville's two main suppliers, erected its first real water system on the west branch of the Black River, with a low dam, brick and cement settling chambers and a wooden tank…
• 1902Elyria switched from river water to Lake Erie, becoming what it believes was the first inland city in the United States to pump treated water from the Great Lakes; the 20-inch cast iron main laid…
• 1903Elyria's 24-inch Lake Erie intake was installed; a second 42-inch intake followed in 1946. Both remain in service.
• 1975The French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant was built by the Ohio Water Development Authority.
• 1983The City of North Ridgeville purchased the French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant from the State of Ohio.
• 2024Avon Lake Regional Water, North Ridgeville's largest water supplier, launched a $6 million pilot of on-site electrochemical sodium hypochlorite generation, brokered by the Cleveland Water Alliance…

Source: cityofelyria.orgnridgeville.orgclevelandwateralliance.org

How it is treated

North Ridgeville buys finished drinking water rather than treating any of its own. Per its Consumer Confidence Report the split is Avon Lake Utilities Department 63.36%, Elyria Utilities Department 35.26%, and Rural Lorain County Water Authority 1.38% — all ultimately Lake Erie surface water. The…

Source: cityofelyria.orgnridgeville.orgclevelandwateralliance.org

Water pressure

North Ridgeville's own distribution pressure is not published. The one sourced figure available concerns a supplier: Elyria's plant pumps from its clearwells to consumers through…

Source: cityofelyria.org

$6.55 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $33 a month for water.

From the City of North Ridgeville Residential & Commercial Water Rate Schedule effective February 1, 2026, billed per 100 CUBIC FEET: $5.00 per 100 cf for 0-400 cf/month, $4.80…

Source: nridgeville.orgnridgeville.orglibrary.municode.com

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.

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

EPA compliance record · Avon Lake City (treats the water)

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

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Elyria water plant solids dewatering facility · $4.6 million · 2017 · completed
  A $4.6 million 250,000-gallon sludge holding and dewatering tank plus centrifuge building at the lakefront plant in Lorain, in operation from June 2017.…
• Avon Lake Regional Water electrochemical sodium hypochlorite pilot · $6 million · 2024 · under construction
  A $6 million pilot facilitated by the Cleveland Water Alliance using technology from South Korean company Techwin: salt plus an electrochemical process to…
• French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant mix tank aeration system replacement · $6.7 million · not stated… · planned
  North Ridgeville council approved $6.7 million and authorized the mayor to advertise for bids to replace the mix tank aeration system, which was failing due to…

Source: clevelandwateralliance.orgavonlakewater.orgchroniclet.com

Lake Erie is a large, non-depleting surface source and Elyria notes that its plant capacity means water use restrictions are not required even during peak summer demand, so supply volume is not a constraint. Quality susceptibility is a different matter: for source water assessment purposes Ohio treats all surface waters as susceptible to…

Source: cityofelyria.org

Sanitary

The French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is wholly owned and operated by the City of North Ridgeville, though it sits at 2350 Abbe Road in Sheffield Village rather than in North Ridgeville. It serves North Ridgeville, Avon and Sheffield through main underground interceptor sewers, runs 24 hours a day on two rotating shifts, and…

Storm

North Ridgeville operates a stormwater utility: the Public Utilities Division bills stormwater alongside water, sanitary sewer and refuse/recycling to more than 15,000 accounts. No description of the storm sewer network, outfalls or MS4 program was found on…

Source: nridgeville.orgnridgeville.orgnridgeville.org

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