Port Clinton City

• Port Clinton calls itself the 'Walleye Capital of the World' and marks New Year's Eve downtown with a Walleye Drop.
• The city is the primary mainland port of the Jet Express, the high-speed passenger ferry to Put-in-Bay.
• Port Clinton's water department runs 34.8 miles of main, 800 valves, 245 hydrants and a single elevated tower for 2,779 connections — and treats none of the water flowing through any of it.
• The city publishes no water rate schedule and no consumer confidence report online; what residents pay is set through an EDU charge adjusted by amendments to Chapter 921.

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• 1828Port Clinton is established, named for New York governor DeWitt Clinton, who was instrumental in creating the Erie Canal.
• 2024City Ordinance 1-24 covers meter replacement, an elevated water tank base on Laurel Avenue, and lead service lines.
• 2025Council adopts Ordinance 10-25, the Water and Sanitary Sewer Infrastructure Improvements Ordinance for 2025, and in April Ordinance 17-25 amending Chapter 921 to adjust the EDU charge funding Part B…

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How it is treated

Port Clinton does not treat its own water. The city water department distributes purchased water to about 6,025 residents through 2,779 service connections, 34.8 miles of main, 800 valves and 245 fire hydrants, with one elevated storage tower. The city's own pages do not name the supplier or…

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Water pressure

not published; the city lists one elevated storage tower but no pressures, pressure zones or elevation data.

Source: portclinton.com

Not published. The city's water page carries no rate schedule and the document center exposes only ordinance titles. Ordinance 17-25 (April 2025) amends Chapter 921 to adjust the…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (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).

EPA compliance record · Ottawa County Regional Water District (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.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Water and sanitary sewer infrastructure improvements (2025) · 2025
  Authorized by Ordinance 10-25; Ordinance 17-25 (April 2025) adjusts the EDU charge to fund 'Part B' of the project. Scope, cost and schedule are not published…
• Meter replacement, Laurel Avenue elevated water tank base, and lead service lines · 2024
  Referenced in the title of Ordinance 1-24; scope and cost not published.

Source: portclinton.com

Not substantiated from primary sources. Port Clinton is a consecutive system with no treatment plant of its own, so its supply risk sits with its regional supplier rather than with the city. Reports of western-basin Lake Erie harmful algal blooms, winter frazil ice, a backup Portage River intake and a June 2025 county-wide boil advisory…

Sanitary

The City of Port Clinton operates its own wastewater treatment plant, averaging approximately 2.699 MGD (about 985 million gallons a year) and handling peak flows exceeding 24 MGD during heavy-rain events as required by state and federal standards. Design capacity, treatment processes, receiving stream and any CSO or consent-decree…

Storm

The same city wastewater department is responsible for operating and maintaining the city's storm sewer system alongside the sanitary system. No separate stormwater utility, rate or fee is described.

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Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources. Little is published about this system, so details are thin.