Englewood City

• Englewood's water comes from seven production wells across three well fields tapping an aquifer whose water table is less than 14 feet below the surface — fast to recharge, and just as fast to contaminate.
• The city keeps an emergency drinking-water interconnect with the City of Union at State Route 48 and Sweet Potato Ridge Road; it is opened, on average, less than one day per year.
• 2024 UCMR5 testing found trace amounts of two unregulated PFAS compounds, PFBS at 0.002 ppb and PFBA at 0.001 ppb — detectable, but with no federal limit yet set for either.
• Before the first waterworks was built in 1936, early Englewood residents shipped grain and bacon down the Stillwater River on flat-bottom boats to Dayton and as far south as New Orleans.
• Englewood owns its water system but contracts day-to-day operations out: the water operations supervisor named in the city's own CCR works for Veolia.

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• 1841Settlers founded what is now the City of Englewood on May 6, 1841; the Village of Englewood was incorporated May 15, 1914 with Jacob Hoover as first mayor.
• 1936Englewood's first municipal water works was built.
• 1940The original sewer system was completed.
• 2003Ohio EPA Source Water Assessment found Englewood's aquifer HIGH susceptibility to contamination — no protective clay layer over the aquifer and a water table less than 14 feet below ground surface.
• 2024Zero drinking water violations and a current unconditional license to operate; system participated in UCMR5 unregulated-contaminant monitoring, detecting trace PFBS (0.002 ppb) and PFBA (0.001 ppb).
• 2025Water, sewer and trash rates raised roughly 5% effective February 1, 2025 (in-city water minimum went from $31.08 to $32.63 per 5,000 gallons bimonthly).

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How it is treated

Water is drawn from the Stillwater Buried Valley Aquifer System by seven production wells spread across three well fields. Well water is pumped to the Water Treatment Plant, filtered to remove iron and manganese, fluoridated, and disinfected with chlorine before distribution; the city also has two…

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Water pressure

Not published in the CCR or on the city's water pages. The city reports two one-million-gallon elevated storage tanks, but no distribution-system psi figure is published.

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$6.54 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $33 a month for water.

In-city water, effective 2/1/2025: $32.63 minimum per 5,000 gallons on a bimonthly bill, plus $6.54 per additional 1,000 gallons. Outside city limits: $48.96 per 5,000 gallons…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.3 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

• US 40 / SR 48 Storm Sewer Improvements, Phase 1 · $850,000 · 2025-2026 · under construction
  Storm sewer repairs at the National Road / State Route 48 intersection. $757,000 comes from an Ohio Public Works Commission grant/loan at 0% interest over…
• Water plant filter media replacement · $240,000 · 2025 · completed
  Contract with National Water Services to replace filter media at the freshwater plant, maintaining iron and manganese removal. City officials noted it does not…

Source: registerherald.com

The 2003 Ohio EPA source water assessment rates the Stillwater Buried Valley Aquifer HIGH susceptibility to contamination: there is no protective clay layer over the aquifer and the water table sits less than 14 feet below ground surface, so a surface spill can reach the supply quickly. The CCR stresses this is a measure of…

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Sanitary

Collected by the City of Englewood; the city's codified ordinance 1250.04 requires sanitary sewers connecting into the Montgomery County Greater Northridge Sanitary Sewer District to be approved by the City Engineer, the Montgomery County Sanitary Engineer and the City of Dayton. Treatment is by Montgomery County Environmental Services…

Storm

The city is carrying out the US 40 / SR 48 Storm Sewer Improvements Phase 1 project, $850,000 with $757,000 from the Ohio Public Works Commission. A separate stormwater utility or dedicated stormwater fee was not found in the sources reviewed.

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