Oregon City

• Oregon's drinking water starts at a crib sitting on the floor of Lake Erie about a mile and a half offshore near Reno Beach, in roughly 16 feet of water, feeding a 48-inch line to a pump station near a marina.
• The plant doses potassium permanganate into the raw water specifically to keep invasive zebra and quagga mussels from colonizing the intake and the raw water piping - the treatment train starts before the water ever…
• Oregon keeps an emergency interconnection with Toledo's water system and used exactly none of it in 2025; the CCR notes the connection averages about zero days of use a year.
• The same 2025 report that documents excellent water quality also discloses a compliance slip: six households with galvanized service lines never got their required notification.
• Oregon's 2025 report doubles as an erratum for 2023 - it publishes the PFHxA result (0.0015 ppb average, ND-0.0031) that should have appeared in the unregulated contaminant table two reports earlier.

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

• 1957Oregon incorporated as a city; owning and operating its own water and wastewater plants was a key issue in the incorporation vote (3,660 to 2,925).
• 1963-1964Oregon's Lake Erie water treatment plant was built, paid for with a combination of local and federal funds. The Water Plant department page dates the system to 1963; the city's published history says…
• 1977Oregon's wastewater treatment plant began full operation on December 2, 1977, funded locally and federally, with capacity to treat 8 million gallons per day.
• 1998An estimated $17.9 million in water plant improvements was in planning; the plant's documented five-phase expansion followed in 2001-2005.
• 2001-2005Five-phase plant expansion completed: new 8 MGD filter capacity and a high-pressure pump (Sept 2001), capacity to 12 MGD with a new chemical building (Aug 2002), rebuild of the original plant's…
• 2022Ohio EPA issued a Limited Environmental Review and Finding of No Significant Impact for Oregon's WWTP Safety, Disinfection and Grit Removal Improvements Project (Water Pollution Control Loan Fund…

Source: en.wikipedia.orgoregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

How it is treated

Lake Erie water enters a fully submerged crib intake about 1.5 miles offshore near Reno Beach in roughly 16 feet of water, where potassium permanganate is fed to control zebra and quagga mussels in the intake and raw water piping and to reduce organics; powdered activated carbon follows for taste…

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

Water pressure

No psi figure is published in the CCR or on the water plant page. Distribution is supported by two elevated tanks - 1 million gallons on Coy Road and 2 million gallons on…

Source: oregonohio.org

No residential water rate schedule is published. The city's Water Billing page covers billing rules only and refers customers to a separate scanned 'Miscellaneous Prices' fee…

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

Source: oregonohio.org

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.

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

Recent and current work

• Water treatment plant expansion to 16 MGD (five phases) · 2001-2005 · completed
  Phase 1 added 8 MGD of filter capacity and a high-pressure pump; Phase 2 took the plant to 12 MGD with a new chemical building and added flocculation/settling…
• Lead and galvanized service line inventory · 2024-2025 · completed
  Customer-owned and system-owned service line material inventory submitted to Ohio EPA by the October 16, 2024 deadline and published as a spreadsheet on the…
• WWTP Safety, Disinfection and Grit Removal Improvements · 2022
  Ohio EPA issued the Limited Environmental Review and Finding of No Significant Impact on May 31, 2022 for financing through the Water Pollution Control Loan…

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

Planned or needed

• Identification of unknown-material service lines · by October… · needed
  Federal Lead and Copper Rule Revisions require the city to establish the material of every service line from the main to the meter; where a material is unknown…
• Lead service line replacement · by 2037 · needed
  All service lines nationwide containing lead must be replaced by the federal 2037 deadline. Oregon is responsible for the segment between the main and the curb…

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

The source water assessment rates the Lake Erie intake area highly susceptible to contamination, citing wastewater and combined sewer or sewage treatment discharges, urban areas, oil and gas production and mining, and accidental releases and spills - particularly from commercial shipping and recreational boating - with short travel times…

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Sanitary

The City of Oregon runs its own wastewater treatment plant at 4657 Dupont Road, in full operation since December 2, 1977. It treats 8 million gallons a day normally and up to 36 million gallons a day in wet weather, and also accepts flow from the City of Northwood, parts of Jerusalem Township and Wood County, and the villages of Harbor…

Storm

Oregon is a small MS4 under the federal Stormwater Phase II rule, operating under a Stormwater Management Plan submitted to Ohio EPA in 2003 and administered by the Engineering Department. The program covers the six minimum control measures - public…

Source: oregonohio.orgoregonohio.org

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