Canal Fulton City

• Canal Fulton is a merger: the city took its present name in 1832 from the Ohio & Erie Canal plus local pioneer Ben Fulton, then in 1853 absorbed the neighboring villages of Milan (platted 1814) and West Fulton.
• The plant deliberately leaves the hardness in — a February 2024 finished-water sample came back at 313 mg/L, about 18.3 grains per gallon.
• The booster pump for the new water tower carried a 52-week manufacturing lead time, a big part of why the project ran long.
• The new tower, about 1,200 feet up off State Route 21, was built to get city water to at least 32 residents on Skyview Drive and Wooster Street for the first time.
• Canal Fulton had two boil advisories within three weeks in 2026: a Locust Street main shutdown in late February, then a system-wide one in mid-March after high winds knocked out the treatment plant's pumps overnight.

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• 1814Milan platted March 23, 1814 by Matthew Rowland, one of three settlements that later became Canal Fulton.
• 1826Fulton platted May 16, 1826 beside the Ohio & Erie Canal on the Tuscarawas River.
• 1832Fulton renamed Canal Fulton, joining the Ohio Canal's name to that of local pioneer Ben Fulton.
• 1853Canal Fulton absorbed the neighboring villages of Milan and West Fulton.
• 2022Ohio EPA notified the city on December 1, 2022 of a significant deficiency: critical system valves were not being exercised and recorded annually. The city set October 31, 2026 as its…
• 2025New elevated water tower at Arcadia Street NW and State Route 21 topped out in February 2025; the tower and its distribution lines were completed in Fall 2025, finally extending city water toward the…

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How it is treated

Five active wells (Wells 4-8; Well 9 is listed inactive) in well fields adjacent to the Canal Fulton Water Works at 453 Water Street. Water is dosed with potassium permanganate and polymer to help remove iron and manganese, filtered through sand and gravel, chlorinated for disinfection with a…

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Water pressure

No psi figures or pressure-zone documentation are published. The only pressure information the city has put out is incident-level: on March 14, 2026 wind-driven electrical damage…

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Not published. The Utility Department page covers billing procedure, autopay and the online portal but carries no rate schedule; the city's codified ordinances on American Legal…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.3 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

• New elevated water tower and SR 21 distribution lines · $4.3 million · 2025 · completed
  Built at Arcadia Street NW and State Route 21 at roughly 1,200 feet elevation to bring city water to at least 32 residents on Skyview Drive and Wooster Street.…
• Locust Street water tower recoating and safety upgrades · 2026 · completed
  Completed in early 2026 per the city's 2025 CCR.
• Locust Street water main replacement · 2026 · under construction
  Described as nearing completion in the 2025 CCR, with remaining storm sewer and road repairs due by the end of 2026. The February 2026 boil advisory followed a…

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Planned or needed

• Critical valve exercising program (return to compliance) · 2026 · planned
  Ohio EPA cited a significant deficiency on December 1, 2022 because critical system valves were not exercised and recorded annually. The city is exercising…
• Promised $500,000 federal contribution to the water tower · $500,000 · 2025 · proposed
  Under federal funding-freeze review as of March 2025; U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes said the status of the funds was unknown. No later resolution was found.

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Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer feeding Canal Fulton's wells as having moderate susceptibility to contamination: it is semi-confined, the partially confining unit varies in thickness and gives only limited protection, and significant potential contaminant sources sit inside the protection area. The city posts…

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Sanitary

Canal Fulton operates its own Wastewater Treatment Plant at 5500 Butterbridge Road N.W., under the same superintendent as the water plant. Water and sewer are billed together on one monthly bill due the 20th. No sewer rate schedule, plant capacity, CSO inventory or consent decree is published on the city site.

Storm

Storm sewer repairs were being carried out alongside the Locust Street water main replacement, with that remaining work due to finish by the end of 2026. No separate stormwater utility, fee or flooding documentation was found.

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