Water system
Clyde City
EPA ID OH7200211 · Sandusky County · 6,325 people served · owned by a local government
Clyde City treats its own water from Raccoon Creek & Beaver Creek Reservoirs (upground, off Sandusky River basin).
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Raccoon Creek Reservoir, Beaver Creek Reservoir, Sandusky River
- Raw intakes
- Beaver Creek Reservoir
Beaver Creek
Racoon Creek Reservoir
Sandusky River - Serves
- 6,325 people · Sandusky County
- EPA ID
- OH7200211
Raccoon Creek Reservoir (city-owned, 200M gal) is supplied in part by water transferred from Beaver Creek Reservoir in Seneca County; both are upground reservoirs within the Sandusky River watershed rather than direct river intakes, though SDWIS also lists a Sandusky River intake.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Clyde's first water works (1883-86) drew on what is now the town's community park pond, along with artesian wells — the whole system, including 18,215 feet of main and 38 hydrants, cost $33,092.95.
- The 2.4 MGD plant Clyde still uses exists because a Citizens Water Committee, on May 18, 1992, talked the city council out of a larger proposal and into hiring a new engineering firm to design a smaller, cheaper plant.
- A water tower was built at Woodland Avenue in 2001 in conjunction with the Whirlpool plant in Clyde.
- Before 1885 Clyde fought fires with cisterns built into the streets and filled by surface drainage.
Source: clydeohio.orgclydeohio.org
History6
- pre-1885Clyde had no reliable water supply; fire cisterns built at intervals in the streets and filled from surface drainage were depended on for fighting fires.
- 1883-86First public supply works developed, using what is now the community park pond, artesian wells, and 18,215 feet of main pipe with 38 fire hydrants. Total project cost $33,092.95.
- 1939Existing 250,000-gallon clearwell constructed between the pond and the water works drive.
- 1949-50Existing treatment plant and Raccoon Creek Reservoir constructed at a total project cost of $800,000.
- 1970-71Major water system improvements: Beaver Creek Reservoir, Beaver Creek pump house, raw water pipeline, Meadow Lane water tank, and rehabilitation of the treatment plant.
- 1973New fluoridation equipment installed.
Source: clydeohio.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
The Clyde Water Treatment Plant (1041 South Main Street) is a 2.4 MGD surface water plant. The 2025 CCR states the plant receives surface water from the Beaver Creek watershed — about 56 square miles — through an intake on Beaver Creek, with storage in the city's Raccoon Creek and Beaver Creek…
Source: clydeohio.orgclydeohio.orgclydeohio.org
Water pressure
Not published. Neither the Water Treatment page nor the 2025 CCR gives system pressure or pressure-zone figures.
Source: clydeohio.orgclydeohio.org
What it costs
Not published. Clyde posts no water rate schedule on clydeohio.org, and its codified ordinances on Municode return HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so no per-1,000-gallon rate…
Source: clydeohio.org
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Disinfection byproduct; range of detections 23.1-88.4 ppb — individual results exceeded the 80 ppb MCL, though the… | 27.4 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Disinfection byproduct; range 9.0-36.2 ppb. | 21.3 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range 0.19-0.49 ppm; low for an agricultural watershed. | 0.49 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.84-1.12 ppm; consistent with active fluoridation (equipment installed 1973). | 1.03 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Atrazine Runoff from herbicide used on row crops; range 0.120-0.240 ppb. Simazine also detected at 0.18 ppb. | 0.240 ppb | 3 | 2025 |
| Cyanide, Free Typical source: discharge from steel/metal, plastic and fertilizer factories. | 1.09 ppb | 200 | 2025 |
| Barium Erosion of natural deposits. | 0.012 ppm | 2 | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Zero of twenty samples exceeded the action level. Next round due 2026. The CCR states the distribution system has no… | <4 ppb | 15 (AL) | 2023 |
| Copper (90th percentile) Zero of twenty samples exceeded the action level. | 0.022 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2023 |
| Turbidity Highest recorded result 0.070 NTU; 100% of samples met the limit. | 0.070 NTU | TT (0.3 NTU in… | 2025 |
Source: clydeohio.org
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (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).
Projects & plans6
Recent and current work
- New 2.4 MGD Water Treatment Facility, South Main Street · 1995-1997 · completed
Groundbreaking 1995; dedicated October 5, 1996; online January 1997. Designed by Gills, Guard & Johnson after a citizens' committee recommended a smaller, less… - Woodland Avenue water tower · 2001 · completed
Constructed in conjunction with the Whirlpool plant in Clyde. - Beaver Creek pump house pump and VFD replacement · 2005 · completed
Smaller pump and variable frequency drive installed; new gates also installed at Beaver Creek Reservoir the same year. - High-service pump replacement at the plant · 2006 · completed
700 gpm high-service pump removed and replaced with a 2,000 gpm VFD high-service pump. - SCADA system upgrade · 2007 · completed
Plant-wide control system upgrade per the city's water history record. - Cathodic protection on the Beaver Creek-to-Raccoon Creek raw water line · 2008 · completed
Installed on the raw water line running from Beaver Creek Reservoir to Raccoon Creek Reservoir; divers also inspected the clearwell and all three water towers…
Source: clydeohio.org
Supply stress
The 2025 CCR states that for source water assessment purposes all surface waters in Ohio are considered susceptible to contamination, being readily accessible and contaminable by chemicals and pathogens that may reach the intake with little warning. Clyde's drinking water source protection area contains potential contaminant sources…
Source: clydeohio.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Not documented. Clyde publishes no wastewater treatment plant description, capacity, collection system detail, or sewer rate that could be retrieved from a primary source.
Storm
Not documented in available sources.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43410 · Clyde62% of residents
Population-weighted resident shares; a ZIP code can have more than one system on record. Recomputed from each ZIP's own system list, not from the map's cached footprint.
Buys from · Sells to
Clyde City does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
1 system on record buys water from Clyde City: Green Springs Village.
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code in all.
Sources
U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Clyde City's own pages: clydeohio.org, clydeohio.org
Notable facts: clydeohio.org, clydeohio.org
History: clydeohio.org
Water quality: clydeohio.org
Water pressure: clydeohio.org, clydeohio.org
Capital projects: clydeohio.org
Rates: clydeohio.org
Treatment: clydeohio.org, clydeohio.org, clydeohio.org
Supply stress: clydeohio.org