Sebring Village

• Sebring's drinking water is drawn from the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County - outside both the village and its home county.
• Sebring's 2016 lead crisis produced a statewide law: Ohio House Bill 512, signed that June, requires every Ohio water system to warn customers within two days of a lead exceedance.
• The village sells bulk water at $35.46 per 1,000 gallons (2026) and charges out-of-village customers surcharges of 50% in Beloit and 75% in Smith Township and Columbiana County.
• Water and sewer rates rise 5% automatically every year under a schedule adopted in 2021 that has no end date.
• The village's own storm water utility charges a flat $4.50 per residence per quarter - $18 a year.

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• 1899Sebring incorporated as a village, founded by the Sebring family, pottery owners who moved from East Liverpool to build their own pottery town.
• 2015Elevated lead and copper were detected in Sebring tap water in the summer, but residents were not notified until January 2016.
• 2016February: Ohio EPA fired two employees over the handling of the Sebring notifications. July: three misdemeanor charges were filed against the village water plant superintendent for missing the 30-…
• 2016June: Ohio House Bill 512, a direct response to Sebring, was signed into law requiring Ohio water systems to notify residents within two days of detecting lead at the tap.
• 2016December 30: last formal state enforcement action recorded against the system in EPA's compliance database.
• 2021Village adopted 5% water and sewer rate increases effective that year and 5% every year thereafter, indefinitely.

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How it is treated

Village-owned surface water plant drawing from the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County. The 2025 CCR documents filtration (turbidity reported against the 0.3 NTU / 1 NTU filtration limits, highest 2024 result 0.15 NTU with 100% of monthly samples in compliance), chlorine disinfection…

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Water pressure

Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the village's water department pages, its 2025 CCR, or its rate ordinance materials.

$8.42 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $52 a month for water.

2026 schedule, effective January 2026 billing, a 5% increase over 2025; the village bills quarterly. Water: 2,000-gallon quarterly minimum $70.07; next 2,000 gallons $9.35 per…

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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:

• 2020Total coliform · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
• 2020Surface Water Treatment Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
• 2020Lead and Copper Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance
• 2016Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.093 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
• 2015Lead and Copper Rule · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 7 includes 2 repeat quarterly violations of the problems listed.

10 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 6 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Water meter replacement program (Neptune meters) · 2025-2026 · under construction
  Village was still contacting residents who had not had meters replaced as of August 2026; unpaid meter balances must be settled at the sale of a home. No cost…
• Lead and galvanized service line inventory (Lead and Copper Rule Revisions) · 2025 · under construction
  Letters mailed to owners in October 2025 in three categories - lead, galvanized, and unknown. The inventory (SLIM map) can currently only be viewed in person…

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Planned or needed

• Online public service line inventory lookup · 2026 · planned
  CCR states an online resource for the service line inventory 'will be available soon'; no date or cost published.
• Annual 5% water and sewer rate increases · annual… · planned
  Rate sheet states 5% increases yearly thereafter, indefinitely, from the 2021 adoption. Not a capital project but the village's only published forward…

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Ohio EPA has determined the Sebring system to have high susceptibility to contamination - the standard finding for all Ohio surface water systems, because access points are widespread and travel time from a spill to the intake is short. The intake sits on the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County, upstream of the village…

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Sanitary

Village-operated sanitary sewer, billed on the same quarterly bill as water. 2026 rates: 5,000-gallon quarterly minimum $112.41, then $7.78 per 1,000 gallons; effective January 2026, a 5% increase over 2025, with 5% yearly increases thereafter. Factories pay $31.45 per employee per quarter based on the highest number of employees.

Storm

Village runs a separate storm water charge: $4.50 per quarter per residence, $15.00 per quarter commercial, $22.50 per quarter industrial (2026 rate sheet).

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