Ravenna City

• Ravenna's original 1885 water plant at Crystal Lake was not demolished until 2016 - 32 years after the Lake Hodgson plant replaced it.
• The city bought its reservoir, Lake Hodgson, for $400,000 in 1957 after the Cleveland Worsted Mills that had used it shut down.
• Ravenna and Kent keep an emergency interconnection used for a total of about 3.25 days a year, spread out over 26 weeks; in 2024 Ravenna took 6.4 million gallons from Kent and sent 0.355 million gallons back.
• The plant fights seasonal algae taste-and-odor with powdered activated carbon, which the city says is expensive enough that dosing is deliberately kept to the minimum that still works.
• The water rate is written per MCF - 1,000 cubic feet, or 7,480 gallons - while customer bills are read in HCF at 748 gallons, so the same $49.60 rate appears as $4.96 on a bill and works out to $6.63 per 1,000 gallons.

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• 1885Ravenna's original water plant was built at Crystal Lake; water was first pumped to the city in 1886 using a steam turbine pump.
• 1913A second pump station was added at Muzzy Lake to supply raw water to Crystal Lake for treatment.
• 1957City purchased Lake Hodgson for $400,000 after the Cleveland Worsted Mills ceased operations, converting the mill's water body into the city's future supply.
• 1973Planning began for a new water treatment facility at Lake Hodgson; final plans were completed in 1981.
• 1984The new $9,597,000 Lake Hodgson Water Treatment Plant, rated 5 MGD, became operational June 11, 1984 after 26 months of construction. The City Park elevated storage tank was upgraded as part of the…
• 2016The original 1885 Crystal Lake plant was demolished, 32 years after the Lake Hodgson plant replaced it.

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How it is treated

Surface water is drawn from Lake Hodgson, a reservoir in the Congress Lake Outlet - Breakneck Creek watershed, and treated at the 5 MGD plant on Lakewood Road, which currently produces about 1.5 MGD on average. The city runs a powdered activated carbon feed system to remove the objectionable tastes…

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Water pressure

No distribution pressure figure is published in the CCR or on city pages. Distribution storage consists of a 3-million-gallon standpipe north of the city and the City Park…

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$6.63 per 1,000 gallons

Ravenna Codified Ordinance 1040.02 sets the 2026 water rate at $49.60 per MCF, where MCF means 1,000 cubic feet = 7,480 gallons, giving $6.63 per 1,000 gallons. Customer bills are…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 3.7 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

Recent and current work

• Water Reclamation Facility final clarifier rebuilds and building re-roofing · completed
  The city reports all three final clarifiers were rebuilt within roughly the last five years and new roofs were installed on multiple buildings. No cost is…
• Water treatment plant improvements: carbon feed system, clearwell aeration, SCADA · completed
  The city describes a new powdered activated carbon feed system for taste and odor, a clearwell aeration system to minimize disinfection byproducts, and SCADA…

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Planned or needed

• Water Reclamation Facility phosphorus reduction project · planned
  The city's wastewater page describes a phosphorus reduction project under development. No cost, year, or Ohio EPA schedule is published in the sources reviewed.

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Ohio EPA treats all Ohio surface water as susceptible, and Ravenna's source water protection area contains what the city calls a moderate number of potential contaminant sources: agricultural runoff, private septic systems, oil and gas wells, and runoff from construction sites and road crossings. The recurring practical problem is…

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Sanitary

City-owned Water Reclamation Facility at 3722 Hommon Rd., Ravenna, averaging 2.8 MGD with a peak hydraulic capacity of 6.02 MGD. The site's treatment history runs from an original 1907 facility, enlarged in 1910, replaced by a new plant in 1942, with upgrades in 1974, 1992, 1995, and 2004. The city reports no EPA violations for calendar…

Storm

Separate storm sewer system, not combined: street drains carry rainwater and snowmelt directly to area lakes and streams while the sanitary system carries wastewater to the Water Reclamation Facility. Ravenna funds it through a stormwater utility charging…

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