Lakemore Village

• The village's own water quality report puts Lakemore's hardness at 14 grains per gallon — 324.9 mg/L — which is very hard water even by Ohio standards.
• Lakemore treats its own drinking water but treats none of its sewage: every gallon of wastewater passes through a master meter and goes to Akron.
• The four wells behind the tap are each more than 200 feet deep, drilled into sandstone, with the water table sitting only about 26 feet down.
• Lakemore keeps an emergency pipe to Akron's water system and used exactly zero gallons of it in 2025 — as it does in a typical year.
• The village's published quarterly sanitary sewer base charge alone is $200.00 in-village and $320.00 out-of-village, before any usage; out-of-village customers pay a 40% surcharge baked into their rate.

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• 1921Village of Lakemore established; the village still brands itself 'The Progressive Village Established in 1921.'
• Nov 2022An Ohio EPA sanitary survey (Facility ID 7758613) found significant deficiencies with the village's 572,000-gallon standpipe, along with violations for the operator log book and for the backflow…
• 2024-2026Ohio EPA found Lakemore had failed to report the required Table of Detected Contaminants accurately in its 2022 and 2024 CCRs, and had omitted lead and lead-service-line-inventory information from…
• 2025The water storage and standpipe flagged in 2022 were replaced in early 2025. In November 2025 Arcadis crews began reconnaissance for potholing work to verify service line materials, and Spano…
• Jan 2026Council passed Ordinance 1912-2025 on January 20, 2026, cutting the quarterly residential sanitary sewer base rate to $200.00 in-village and $320.00 out-of-village, effective with July 1, 2026…
• 2026HM Miller hired to install water mains at the Raymond, Josephine and Wilson Avenue dead ends starting August 17, 2026, and to replace or line sanitary sewer mains on roughly fifteen streets starting…

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How it is treated

The Lakemore Water Treatment Plant at 2827 Sanitarium Road draws from a field of four wells on the north side of Sanitarium Road, each over 200 feet deep into a sandstone aquifer whose water level sits about 26 feet below ground surface. Water is pumped to the plant, where chlorine is added to…

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Water pressure

Not published. No psi figure or pressure-zone map appears in the CCR or on the village site. The system's 572,000-gallon standpipe — the pressure-holding structure — was replaced…

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Lakemore does not publish a water rate anywhere online; billing is quarterly, with customers submitting their own meter readings, and the village directs anyone wanting rate…

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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.

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

Recent and current work

• Water storage and standpipe replacement · 2025 · completed
  Replaced in early 2025 after Ohio EPA's November 3, 2022 sanitary survey found significant deficiencies with the 572,000-gallon standpipe. No cost published.
• Lead service line potholing and material verification · 2025-2026 · under construction
  Arcadis staff did reconnaissance in Lakemore November 3-21, 2025 to identify feasible potholing locations (curb stop findable, in a grassy area) before…
• Second Street water main replacement · 2025 · under construction
  Spano Brothers began replacing the Second Street water main in December 2025. No cost published.
• Water main installation at Raymond, Josephine and Wilson Avenue dead ends · 2026 · under construction
  Contractor HM Miller; work to begin August 17, 2026 with services tapped by September 25, 2026. No cost published.
• Sanitary sewer main replacement and lining, multiple streets · 2026 · planned
  Contractor HM Miller; scheduled to begin September 28, 2026 on Lakeview, Lakeside, Hilda, Ackers, Euclid, Wilson, Martha, Elizabeth, Josephine, Raymond…

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Planned or needed

• Village-wide lead service line replacement · needed
  Follows the 2025-2026 inventory and potholing work. No timeline, scope, or cost has been published.
• Springfield Lake water and groundwater study (Great Lakes Environmental Justice Thriving Communities grant) · proposed
  A joint application by Lakemore, Springfield Township and Summit County to fund extensive sampling of the water in and the ground below Springfield Lake, to…

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Lakemore's drinking water is groundwater, but Ohio EPA rates the aquifer's susceptibility to contamination as MODERATE, not low: the wells are over 200 feet deep in sandstone with water 26 feet below ground surface, but only a 10-foot shale layer separates them from the surface, which the CCR says 'allows limited protection,' and…

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Sanitary

Lakemore has no wastewater treatment plant of its own. Sanitary sewage flows to a master meter for Akron, and the City of Akron transports and treats it. The village's sewer system operates under Ohio EPA Findings and Orders, and the village has committed to posting any sanitary sewer overflow incidents publicly (none currently listed).…

Storm

No dedicated stormwater utility or fee was identified. The village maintains its own storm system, has adopted an Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance and an Illicit Discharge Ordinance with an enforcement plan, takes stormwater reports at…

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