Oakwood City

• A city of about 9,600 people runs eight production wells, three water treatment plants, 44 miles of main, 352 hydrants and a 1.5-million-gallon tower entirely on its own.
• Oakwood's growth was partly a flood-safety pitch: after the 1913 Great Dayton Flood, ads sold Oakwood lots as sitting '275 feet higher than the intersection of Third and Main Streets.'
• The city softens its raw groundwater from about 27 grains per gallon of hardness down to about 12 - roughly 200 mg/L, still fairly hard tap water by national standards.
• Oakwood adds no fluoride at all; the roughly 0.24 ppm in the tap is whatever the aquifer happens to supply.
• Every 100 cubic feet of water billed carries a 10-cent Well Field Protection Fee - a line item on the bill for guarding the ground the city's eight wells draw from.

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• 1908Oakwood incorporates as a city.
• 1913The Great Dayton Flood devastates downtown Dayton; advertising afterward touts Oakwood property as '275 feet higher than the intersection of Third and Main Streets,' a flood-safety pitch that drives…
• 2023Oakwood produces 403.274 million gallons from its eight wells and buys no water at all from Dayton - 100% of city demand met in-house.
• 2024Oakwood participates in the fifth round of the federal Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5); four PFAS compounds are detected at trace levels at both the Shafor and Springhouse plants.
• 2025Oakwood produces 449.267 million gallons from its wells - 99.07% of demand - and draws 4.215 million gallons from the City of Dayton connection over 16 days, its first reported purchase in recent…
• 2025City Council adopts Ordinance 5024 on December 1, setting the 2026 water, sewer, stormwater and refuse rates.

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How it is treated

Groundwater from eight production wells feeding three city-owned water treatment plants - Springhouse (120 Springhouse Rd) and Shafor (210 Shafor Blvd) are the two the CCR names and photographs, and the CCR states three exist. CORRECTION to the draft: three plants, not two. The wells draw from…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR, the water production and distribution page, nor the common water inquiries page gives a system psi or pressure-zone figure; the city only…

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$5.52 per 1,000 gallons

Set by Ordinance 5024, adopted December 1, 2025 (Appendix A - Public Services Rate Sheet), effective 2026. INSIDE-CITY WATER: $23.44/month minimum for a 5/8-inch or smaller meter…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.6 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Ohio EPA rates the aquifer under Oakwood's own wellfield as having MODERATE susceptibility to contamination, citing the sensitivity of the aquifer the wells sit in and several potential contaminant sources inside the protection zone; the city responds with an Ohio EPA-endorsed Source Water Assessment and Protection Program and charges a…

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Sanitary

The City of Oakwood owns and operates the sanitary collection system but does not treat its own wastewater - about 70% of sanitary sewer operating cost is treatment purchased from Montgomery County and City of Dayton wastewater treatment plants. The whole operation, collection and treatment alike, is funded by user fees rather than…

Storm

A separate storm system, operated by the city's Engineering & Public Works Department: underground storm sewer pipes, roadway gutters, stormwater inlets, and open ditches, creeks and streams, run under a Stormwater Management Plan permitted through Ohio EPA.…

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