Genoa Village

• Genoa customers pay a 50% surcharge on top of what City of Oregon residents pay for the same water — a term written into the wholesale contract back in the 1970s and still in force.
• The 'Infrastructure' line on a Genoa water bill is a City of Oregon charge of $2.00 minimum plus another $2.00 for every 8,000 gallons, and it exists to pay off the Oregon plant upgrades that keep Lake Erie algae blooms…
• Genoa's 2025 water quality report says the distribution system contains no lead service lines, no galvanized lines requiring replacement, and no lines of unknown material — a clean sweep, completed for the village by…
• Genoa's sewer district takes wastewater from two Ohio Turnpike service plazas along with Clay Township, Clay Center and Allen Township.
• Main Street was a corduroy road — logs laid side by side with sand packed between them — until it was paved in 1913, and the stretch heading toward Woodville was a toll road from 1851 to 1910.

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• 1835First settlers arrive in what is now Clay Township; the community that grew there was called Stony Station, per the village's own history page. (Wikipedia instead records the original name as Stony…
• 1857Renamed Genoa, chosen for Genoa, Italy, because the community was surrounded by water, per the village history page. (Wikipedia dates the renaming to spring 1856 and attributes it to confusion with…
• 1868Village incorporated on September 7 per the village history page; Wikipedia gives December 10, 1868.
• 1886Genoa Opera Hall completed, opening in January 1886 with 'The Three Wise Owls'; it is now on the National Register of Historic Places and is described by the village as the oldest free-standing…
• 1913Main Street paved; it had been a corduroy road (logs laid side by side with sand filling the gaps). Main Street becoming Lime Road toward Woodville was a toll road from 1851 to 1910.
• 1970sGenoa's water-purchase contract with the City of Oregon originates. It has carried a 50% surcharge over the rate paid by Oregon residents since the contract's origin, which the mayor later identified…

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How it is treated

Genoa buys 100% of its finished drinking water from the City of Oregon, which draws Lake Erie surface water from an intake about 1.5 miles offshore of Reno Beach (Anchor Point Marina) and filters and disinfects it — the 2025 CCR reports Oregon turbidity of 0.13 NTU (0.04-0.25) with 100% of samples…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor the village's water/sewer pages give a psi figure or a pressure-zone map.

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Genoa does not publish a per-1,000-gallon water rate or a typical bill online, so no dollar-per-gallon figure is asserted here. What is documented: village customers pay a 50%…

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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:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

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

EPA compliance record · Oregon 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.

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

Recent and current work

• Lead service line inventory and lead service line project · 2025 · completed
  Ohio EPA's contractor Arcadis U.S., Inc. completed the work on the village's behalf; the village was notified November 21, 2025. The 2025 CCR states the…
• New filtration house at the sewer ponds (Sewer overhaul Phase 1) · $1.9 million · 2020-2021 · completed
  Funded with a $275,000 OPWC grant and a $1,869,400 OWPA loan. Scheduled dates come from the village's 2022 sewer rate explainer; separate confirmation of final…
• 9th Street central pump station reconstruction (Sewer overhaul Phase 1) · $500,000 · 2021-2022 · completed
  Funded with a $240,000 OPWC grant and a $120,950 OPWC loan. Phase 1 left $1,990,350 of debt to be repaid by system customers. Scheduled dates from the 2022…
• Reconstruction of four peripheral sewer pump stations (Sewer overhaul Phase 2) · $1.4 million · 2022-2023
  Expected to go out for public bid in summer 2022 with a $1.213 million Ohio BUILDS grant (ARPA-funded), leaving under $200,000 to amortize. No award or…

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Planned or needed

• Feasibility study of a water line to Elmore to join Ottawa County Regional Water · proposed
  Announced by the mayor in 2022 as a response to Genoa's high water costs: the village intended to study construction costs and potential savings from leaving…

Source: genoaohio.org

Genoa has no source of its own: every drop comes through the City of Oregon's single Lake Erie intake, placing it in the same western Lake Erie harmful-algal-bloom zone as Toledo. Ohio treats all surface water as susceptible to contamination, and the 2025 CCR lists municipal sewage plants, industrial wastewater, combined sewer overflows…

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Sanitary

The village runs its own sanitary system, treating in sewer ponds with a filtration house rather than a conventional mechanical plant. The district serves Genoa, Clay Township, Clay Center, Allen Township and two Ohio Turnpike service plazas. A generational overhaul totaling more than $3.8 million ran 2020-2023 (filtration house, 9th…

Storm

Not published. No dedicated stormwater utility, stormwater fee, or documented flooding problem was found in the village's utility pages or rate documents.

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