Aurora City - Cleveland

• Cleveland Water is the 10th-largest public water system in the United States, treating and delivering up to 300 million gallons a day to more than 1.45 million people in 80 communities across Cuyahoga County and parts…
• Aurora runs two entirely separate public water systems side by side: this one, buying Lake Erie water from Cleveland, and an Aurora Portage system fed by a Coit Road well field and softened by ion exchange at Portage…
• The two Aurora systems are joined by an auxiliary connection that is barely used: 0 gallons passed through it in 2025, and it runs about one day in an average year.
• Aurora's Cleveland-system intakes are spread across 15 miles of Lake Erie, each several miles from shore, deliberately placed to stay clear of Cuyahoga and Rocky River runoff.
• Both of Aurora's distribution systems report no lead service lines, no galvanized lines requiring replacement, and no lines of unknown material - each with its own public service line inventory map.

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• 1916Cleveland's Garrett A. Morgan Water Treatment Plant is built, on the site of the city's first waterworks facility; it now pumps an average of 60 million gallons a day.
• 1925Cleveland's Baldwin Plant is put into service in the University Circle/Fairfax area; it pumps an average of 71.1 million gallons a day and is one of the two plants whose results are reported for…
• 1951Cleveland's Nottingham Plant is placed into service in September, pumping water to the eastern part of Cleveland; it is the other plant reporting water quality for Aurora's Cleveland system.
• 1958Cleveland's Crown Plant is first put into service in Westlake, averaging 40 million gallons a day - the only one of the four Cleveland Water plants sited outside Cleveland itself.
• 2003Ohio's Drinking Water Source Assessment Report for Cleveland Water's four Lake Erie intakes is completed, following an assessment the state performed in the late 1990s; Ohio EPA concludes the source…
• 2020Cleveland Water is sampled under the State of Ohio's Drinking Water PFAS Sampling initiative; six PFAS compounds are tested and none are detected in finished drinking water.

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How it is treated

Aurora's Cleveland-system water is Lake Erie surface water. Cleveland Water draws it from four intakes in the Central Basin spread over 15 miles of shoreline, each 3 to 5 miles offshore where the water is cleaner and least affected by tributary runoff and coastal activity. Cleveland treats it with…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither Aurora's 2025 CCR nor any city water department page gives a service pressure in psi or a pressure-zone map. The city does disclose the physical plant…

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$8.54 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $34 a month for water.

Aurora prices water per MCF, meaning 1,000 CUBIC FEET (7,480 gallons) - not per 1,000 gallons. The rate is $63.91 per MCF effective January 1, 2026, which is $8.54 per 1,000…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

EPA compliance record · Cleveland Public Water System (treats the water)

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).

Lake Erie is a large, continuously replenished surface source, and Ohio EPA rates Cleveland Water's source water as having LOW susceptibility to contamination specifically because the four intakes sit 3 to 5 miles offshore, which greatly minimizes potential contamination from the Cuyahoga River, the Rocky River and nearshore sources.…

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Sanitary

Sewer is billed by the same city water department on the same quarterly cycle as water, at $38.74 per MCF - $5.18 per 1,000 gallons - plus a $48.66 flat rate, both unchanged since January 1, 2020 and, unlike the water rate, not subject to the Portage County escalator. Aurora's Engineering Department lists 'water and wastewater treatment…

Storm

No stormwater utility fee or system description is published. The Engineering Department lists storm water maintenance among its capital improvement responsibilities, alongside street construction, traffic studies and sanitary and waterline improvements, and…

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