Sheffield Lake City

• Sheffield Lake treats none of its own water. It buys from Avon Lake Regional Water, a utility founded in 1925 with a $390,000 investment to serve 1,200 people that now supplies over 200,000 residents across 680 square…
• The city buys a little over 233 million gallons of water a year but pumps a little over 300 million gallons of sewage to Lorain's Black River plant - it neither treats nor produces a drop of either.
• Sheffield Lake, Sheffield Village and Sheffield Township all trace to a single 1815 founding and held a joint bicentennial in 2015. Sheffield Lake split off in 1920 when residents east of the Black River voted out of…
• The city bought treated water through pipes described in its own billing notice as 'over 100 years old' in places - the Alameda Avenue mains replaced in 2025 were roughly a century old.

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• 1815Common founding year of Sheffield, marked by a joint bicentennial in 2015 with Sheffield Village and Sheffield Township; the city seal reads 'Founded 1815'. Settlers adopted the name Sheffield in…
• 1920Township residents living east of the Black River voted to withdraw from Sheffield Township and incorporate as the Village of Sheffield Lake, electing Harry Woodruff as first mayor.
• 1925Avon Lake Regional Water, Sheffield Lake's bulk water supplier, founded with a $390,000 investment in land and facilities to serve 1,200 Avon Lake residents; it now serves over 200,000 people across…
• 1933Farmers in the southern part of the village voted to separate from Sheffield Lake, forming Brookside Township, which incorporated a year later as the Village of Sheffield.
• 1960Following the 1960 census, the Village of Sheffield Lake, population 6,800, became the City of Sheffield Lake; Frank Duguid continued as its first city mayor.
• 2022Sewage treatment charges rose in the July 2022 bill after Lorain's Black River Wastewater Treatment Plant passed a cost increase on to Sheffield Lake; neighbouring communities using the plant also…

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How it is treated

Sheffield Lake treats no water of its own. Its 2026 Consumer Confidence Report (for calendar year 2025) states that Sheffield Lake PWS receives its drinking water from Avon Lake Regional Water (Avon Lake City PWS), which draws Lake Erie water through two separate intakes and treats it at a…

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Water pressure

Not published. No psi values or pressure zones appear in the CCR, the department pages or council minutes. The city owns and manages a water tower; in March 2025 the service…

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$3.73 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $18 a month for water.

From the city's own 'About your monthly services bill' page. Water: a $6.75 monthly base fee covering the first 99 cubic feet, then $2.79 per 100 cubic feet. At 1 ccf = 748…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.9 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).

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

• Alameda Avenue Phase 2 water main replacement · 2025 · completed
  New water main installed and active by May 2025, old lines removed or filled with low-strength mortar, followed by drain installation, sanitary upgrades and…
• West Drive reconstruction with water main replacement · $1.4 million · 2025 · under construction
  Bidding authorised June 2025, fully funded with grants and loans at $1,410,000 (Ohio Public Works Commission), with a separate OWDA loan application covering…
• 2025 Ohio Water Development Authority water-construction loans · $765,532 · 2025 · completed
  The OWDA 2025 Annual Report lists two water-construction loan awards to Sheffield Lake, Lorain County: $535,427 and $230,105 (total $765,532). The report does…

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Planned or needed

• Water tower engineering review · 2025 · planned
  In March 2025 the service director reported receiving and intending to move forward with a contract review proposal from Dixon Engineering for the water tower.…
• No published multi-year capital plan
  The city posts council and committee minutes but no capital improvement plan, asset management plan or rate ordinance schedule online, so future work beyond…

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Sanitary

Sheffield Lake treats no sewage. It collects wastewater through about 188,000 linear feet of city sewers and three pump stations and pumps all of it to the City of Lorain's Black River Wastewater Treatment Plant, averaging a little over 300 million gallons a year - notably more than the roughly 233 million gallons of water the city buys.…

Storm

Separate from the sanitary system. The city operates roughly 101,000 linear feet of storm drainage and bills a Storm Water Utility (STW) fee on the monthly services bill covering operation, management, maintenance, repair, construction, reconstruction…

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