Cuyahoga Falls City

• Cuyahoga Falls drinks entirely from 18 wells at Water Works Park, but the Cuyahoga River still feeds the supply indirectly, recharging the aquifer through man-made channels and lagoons.
• The plant softens only about two-thirds of its water, then blends the softened and unsoftened streams back together to land at a target hardness of 100 to 130 ppm.
• Water Works Park's stone shelter and bridges were built around 1934 by crews working under FDR's Works Progress Administration.
• A single 2024 tap sample came back at 465 ppb of lead, over 30 times the action level - but the resample was under 5 ppb, pointing at that home's plumbing rather than the city's water.

• 1934Water Works Park, its shelter and its bridges were built by crews under FDR's Works Progress Administration, on the site of the city's well field.
• 1959Flooding inundated Water Works Park and the well field in January 1959; the park and wells flooded again in April 1978.
• 2022An Ohio EPA sanitary survey found reporting violations and significant deficiencies, including severe deterioration of the plant's softener building pipe gallery.
• 2023Two water main breaks on Akron Peninsula Road near Bath Road triggered an October 8 boil advisory on Akron-supplied lines serving outlying Cuyahoga Falls and Boston Township addresses.
• 2024One of 30 lead compliance samples returned 465 ppb, far over the 15 ppb action level; the resample came back under 5 ppb and the 90th percentile stayed at 0.

How it is treated

Groundwater from 18 wells at Water Works Park enters iron-removal filters where chlorine strips iron and manganese; about two-thirds is then softened by ion exchange, blended back with the rest to 100-130 ppm hardness, and dosed with chlorine, fluoride, caustic soda and orthophosphate.

Water pressure

not published; no average or pressure-zone psi figures appear in the city's water reports.

No verifiable current rate found. The city does not post its per-unit schedule online; rates are set by Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Code 923.01.

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2024 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2024Lead and Copper Rule (lead) · treatment technique violation · returned to compliance

6 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 5 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Iron filter media replacement · 2023 · under construction
  Ordered after Ohio EPA found no replacement schedule and organic growth on several iron filters; phased replacement began in 2023.

Planned or needed

• Water treatment plant softener building and pipe gallery replacement · 2026 · planned
  Ohio EPA cited significant deterioration; design plans were due by end of 2025 with construction to begin in 2026.
• Removal of the State Road Water Tank supplemental chlorine booster station · 2026 · planned
  The booster station was found inoperable during the 2022 sanitary survey; the city plans to remove it.

A buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer recharged by the Cuyahoga River through man-made channels and lagoons. Ohio EPA rates it highly susceptible: water sits 4-32 feet down with no low-permeability protective layer. The plant produces close to 6 MGD; aging plant structures, not supply, are the pressure.

Sanitary

Not confirmed: which entity treats Cuyahoga Falls' sanitary flow, and that plant's capacity and receiving stream, could not be established in accessible sources, and no consent decree specific to the city was found.

Storm

Storm and combined sewer configuration for Cuyahoga Falls, and any stormwater utility fee, could not be confirmed in accessible sources.

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