South Lebanon City

• South Lebanon has been a settlement since 1795, first as Deerfield, but only became a city in October 2021, when the 2020 Census pushed it past 5,000 residents; its home-rule charter took effect July 1, 2023.
• The city buys every drop it sells. EPA records show it once pumped from three of its own wells, all now inactive.
• Its emergency connection to Warren County went completely unused in 2025: zero gallons over 365 days.
• Because Greater Cincinnati Water Works blends Ohio River water from the Miller plant with buried-valley aquifer groundwater from the Bolton plant, and Ohio EPA treated the two as one distribution system in 2025, a South…
• Its trash service is priced right on the bill next to the water: $21.53 a month, collected Thursdays.

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• 1795Settled on the Little Miami River as Deerfield, later renamed South Lebanon; the city describes itself as over 200 years old.
• 2021The former Village of South Lebanon became a City in October 2021 after the 2020 Census counted more than 5,000 residents.
• 2023Voters approved a city charter on the May 2, 2023 ballot; the charter took effect July 1, 2023.
• 2025The system failed to file its July 2025 Monthly Operating Report with Ohio EPA by the 10th of the following month; it was submitted August 18, 2025, producing a reported violation. Customers were…

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How it is treated

South Lebanon operates no treatment plant. Its 2025 CCR states the city receives 100 percent of its drinking water from Greater Cincinnati Water Works through a master meter; EPA SDWIS lists that GCWW (Cincinnati Public Water System, OH3102612) master meter as the only active purchased connection…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the CCR nor the utilities page states a distribution pressure; EPA SDWIS lists one storage tank and shows the city's high service pumps as an inactive…

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$4.18 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $38 a month for water.

Per Ordinance 2025-25, effective January 1, 2026: inside corporation boundaries (excluding the Warren County agreement area) $33.99 for the first 3,000 gallons or part thereof per…

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EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

9 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 9 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

EPA compliance record · Cincinnati Public Water System (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 2.1 ppb in 2026 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

South Lebanon has no source of its own to stress; it buys 100 percent of its supply from Greater Cincinnati Water Works, so its exposure is entirely to that regional system. Ohio EPA classifies the Ohio River as highly susceptible to contamination, as it does all surface waters, and classifies GCWW's portion of the Great Miami Buried…

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Sanitary

The City of South Lebanon bills a separate monthly sanitary sewer charge under Ordinance 2022-03: $37.50 per month for the first 3,000 gallons for Warren County-billed customers and $34.43 for individually metered customers, both with $2.78 per 1,000 gallons over 3,000. The city provides sanitary sewer collection service; which entity…

Storm

Not published. No stormwater utility, fee or system description appears on the city's utilities or departments pages.

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