Warren Co. Sharts Road

• Springboro has not run its own water plant since 1990 — Veolia North America has held the operate-maintain-manage contract for 36 years, and the technical contact printed on the city's water quality report is a Veolia…
• The emergency interconnections with Franklin and Warren County are flushed every six months, pushing roughly 8,000 gallons in each direction purely to keep the pipes ready.
• Springboro's 2024 UCMR 5 results put PFOA and PFOS above the new 4.0 parts-per-trillion federal limits, even though the system is fully in compliance today because those limits have not yet taken effect.
• The 2025 water quality report carries a violation notice — not about the water, but about paperwork: the city missed the July 1, 2025 deadline to certify to Ohio EPA that it had mailed lead service line notices, and…

Source: cityofspringboro.comveolianorthamerica.com

• 1988U.S. EPA designates the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer a federal Sole Source Aquifer (May 1988), subjecting federally funded projects over the aquifer and its recharge zone to EPA review.
• 1990Veolia North America (through its predecessor) begins an operate/maintain/manage contract for Springboro's water system; the contract later expanded to the wastewater plant and collection system and…
• 2001Ohio's source water assessment rates Springboro's aquifer as having HIGH susceptibility to contamination, citing the aquifer's shallow depth (less than five feet below ground surface) and significant…
• 2006Springboro WWTP undergoes a major plant upgrade (Ohio EPA NPDES fact sheet).
• 2024Springboro PWS samples under the fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5); PFOA and PFOS are found above the 4.0 ppt federal MCLs adopted in 2024.
• 2025The system fails to demonstrate to Ohio EPA that it delivered the required annual lead / galvanized-requiring-replacement / unknown service line notifications by July 1, 2025; the missing…

Source: cityofspringboro.comcityofspringboro.commcdwater.org

How it is treated

Six municipal wells draw from the buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer associated with the Great Miami River. All pumped water goes to the city treatment plant at 3049 Pennyroyal Road, where it is filtered and treated with chlorine and fluoride; Veolia describes the plant as a 7-MGD anthracite…

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Water pressure

Not published. Neither the 2025 or 2017 CCR, the city rate schedule, nor the Ohio EPA NPDES documents state a system psi figure or describe pressure zones.

$5.61 per 1,000 gallons

City of Springboro posted Water & Sewer Rates, effective April 2026. Water: $15.00 per month base charge plus a tiered volume rate — $6.09 per 1,000 gal for 1-1,999 gal, $6.15 for…

Source: cityofspringboro.com

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EPA compliance record · Warren Co. Sharts Road

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 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).

EPA compliance record · Springboro (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.4 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).

Planned or needed

• Water system improvements in the 2024-2028 five-year capital improvements plan · $12 million · 2024-2028 · planned
  Reported by the Journal-News / Dayton Daily News coverage of the council vote adopting the 2024 budget and five-year capital plan. The city does not publish a…

Source: journal-news.com

Springboro's entire supply is a single shallow aquifer, and the city's own 2025 CCR says so plainly: the buried valley aquifer it draws from is 'highly susceptible to surface contamination.' Ohio's 2001 source water assessment rated susceptibility high because the aquifer sits less than five feet below ground surface with significant…

Source: cityofspringboro.comcityofspringboro.commcdwater.org

Sanitary

City-owned Springboro WWTP at 275 West Mill Street, average design flow 4.0 MGD, last given a major upgrade in 2006. Treatment train: influent pumping, bar screen, grit removal, oxidation ditch, separate-stage biological nitrification, secondary clarification, tertiary filtration and ultraviolet disinfection. It discharges to an unnamed…

Storm

The city bills a residential Storm Water Management Program charge of $4.00 on the utility bill. No storm sewer master plan, outfall inventory or MS4 report was found in the sources reviewed.

Source: dam.assets.ohio.govveolianorthamerica.comcityofspringboro.com

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