Sidney City

$9.21 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $19 a month for water.

Codified Ordinance 911.01 sets the water user charge at $6.89 per 100 cubic feet; at 748 gallons per 100 cubic feet that converts to about $9.21 per 1,000 gallons. (That ordinance…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2023 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.088 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

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

Recent and current work

• Washington Township wellfield and 9-mile, 30-inch raw water transmission main · $22 million · 2017 · completed
  A 10 MGD wellfield replacing heavy reliance on surface intakes. The $22 million figure is a consultant's estimate to develop the wellfield and install the…
• Wastewater treatment plant improvement project · $12 million · 2017 · completed
  Raised WWTP capacity from 13.5 to 14.0 MGD, added UV disinfection, safety and reliability improvements and back-up generation for the full treatment process…
• Great Miami River bedrock well rehabilitation · 2000… · completed
  Two rounds of work to restore four fractured-bedrock wells whose yield had fallen from over 1,000,000 gpd to 600,000-800,000 gpd. No cost figure is published…
• Lead service line inventory · 2024 · completed
  Initial inventory complete and available for review at the Service Center, 415 S. Vandemark Road; work continues to identify remaining unknown-material lines.

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Planned or needed

• TTHM corrective actions · 2024-2025 · under construction
  In response to the 2024 violation the city listed increased flushing of key distribution sections, optimizing water tower turnover rates, exploring additional…
• Identification of unknown-material service lines · ongoing · needed
  The city asks customers to report the customer-owned portion of their service line; no replacement cost or schedule is published.
• Remaining underground utility projects · $6 million · 2016 · needed
  The comprehensive plan identified over $6 million of additional underground utility projects still unfinished, with more known and unscheduled. Figure is a…

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Sanitary

City-run separate sanitary sewer system and wastewater plant whose stated purpose is to protect water quality in the Great Miami River. A $12 million upgrade completed in spring 2017 under an Ohio WPCLF loan raised capacity from 13.5 to 14.0 MGD, added UV disinfection and back-up generation. The system has severe inflow and infiltration…

Storm

Separate storm sewer system with a stormwater utility fee adopted as a required activity under the city's Ohio EPA NPDES Phase II stormwater permit. Non-residential properties are assigned an Equivalent Residential Unit multiple equal to measured impervious…

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