Water system
Perrysburg City
EPA ID OH8701803 · Wood County · 27,000 people served · owned by a local government
Perrysburg City buys its water from Toledo City Of.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Lake Erie
- Raw intakes
- Toledo Lake Erie
- Serves
- 360,000 people · Lucas County
- EPA ID
- OH4801411
Toledo's Collins Park WTP draws directly from Lake Erie and also serves as wholesale supplier to numerous surrounding systems.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Perrysburg has no water plant at all: every drop is bought already treated from Toledo's Collins Park plant, which Toledo calls the largest water softening plant on Lake Erie.
- The city's 156 miles of main range from 1.5 inches to 30 inches across, and the 4-inch lines under some of the oldest streets are the ones now queued for replacement.
- Perrysburg's backup connection to the Northwestern Water and Sewer District is so rarely needed that the city's own report says it gets used about zero days a year.
- Water is expensive here by Ohio standards: Ohio EPA put the average Perrysburg residential water bill at $648 a year against a state average of $481.
- Both of Perrysburg's 2025 drinking water violations were paperwork — late lead notifications — not contamination.
History6
- 1813Construction of Fort Meigs begins on the Maumee River in February under General William Henry Harrison, decades before any piped water system (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited).
- 1816Perrysburg is surveyed and platted by a federal survey team (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited).
- 1854A cholera epidemic devastates the town, with more than 100 deaths and a roughly two-month shutdown (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited).
- 1859The railroad reaches Perrysburg with the completion of the Dayton and Michigan Railroad (secondary source: Wikipedia, cited).
- 1991Perrysburg's Water Pollution Control division begins EPA-mandated sewer separation projects, installing storm sewers separate from the sanitary system.
- 2014Toledo, Perrysburg's sole wholesale water supplier, issues a do-not-drink advisory from the evening of August 1 until late on August 4 after a toxic blue-green algae bloom forms directly over its…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Perrysburg treats none of its own water. It buys finished water through an interconnection and wholesale supply contract with the City of Toledo, whose Collins Park Water Treatment Plant draws raw water from Lake Erie, filters about 75 million gallons a day, and is described by Toledo as the…
Source: perrysburgoh.govperrysburgoh.govtoledo.oh.gov
Water pressure
Two pressure zones, fed by two supply reservoirs, two booster stations and four distribution tanks (Ohio EPA Limited Environmental Review, August 2026). No psi figures are…
Source: perrysburgoh.gov
What it costs
$14.43 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $58 a month for water.
City 2026 Water and Sewer Rates sheet, updated 2/24/2026: inside the city, water is $32.40 for usage under 300 cubic feet and $107.97 per 1,000 cubic feet above that; at 7,480…
Source: perrysburgoh.govperrysburgoh.gov
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Perrysburg distribution system; range 20.4-69.8 ppb. About 82% of the MCL — the highest-relative reading in this… | 65.9 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Total haloacetic acids (HAA5) Perrysburg distribution system; range 5.0-16.6 ppb. | 13.3 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total chlorine Perrysburg distribution, EBPS sampling points; range 1.02-1.18 ppm. Toledo's plant effluent measured 1.39 ppm. | 1.10 ppm | MRDL 4 | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) 0 of 30 samples over the action level; below the reporting limit. | <4 ppb | action level 15… | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) 0 of 30 samples over the action level. Value as printed in the CCR, whose lead-and-copper table layout is garbled. | 0.015 ppm | action level… | 2025 |
| Fluoride Toledo plant data; range 0.98-1.06 ppm. | 1.00 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate (as nitrogen) Toledo plant data; range below 0.10 to 2.36 ppm. | 1.22 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Turbidity Toledo plant data; 100% of 2025 samples were below 0.3 NTU. | 0.23 NTU | treatment… | 2025 |
| Sodium Toledo plant data; range 7.47-20.90 ppm, about 2.8 mg per 8-ounce glass. Reported for people watching dietary sodium. | 11.67 ppm | no MCL | 2025 |
| PFOA Toledo finished water under UCMR 5, reported as 0.0012 ppb. Perrysburg's own distribution samples were below the… | 1.2 ppt | MCL 4.0 ppt | 2025 |
Source: perrysburgoh.gov
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.
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Toledo City Of (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Projects & plans3
Recent and current work
- Sanitary and storm sewer separation program · 1991 · under construction
EPA-mandated separation of storm from sanitary sewers, running since 1991; the city says Water Pollution Control is currently building new facilities to…
Source: perrysburgoh.gov
Planned or needed
- Water Main Replacement Contract 11 · $3.7 million · 2027 · planned
Ohio EPA WSRLA loan FS390748-0011, financed at the September below-market rate of 3.19% on a 20-year term, saving about $592,000 versus market. About 10,532… - Stormwater Utility Program · 2026 · planned
The city is developing a stormwater utility to fund maintenance and improvement of the separated storm system, with a service charge and a credit program for…
Supply stress
Perrysburg has no source of its own, so its exposure is entirely Toledo's Lake Erie intake. Ohio EPA's source water assessment for Toledo finds the supply susceptible to future contamination, listing accidental spills from commercial shipping and recreational boating, river dredging spoil, air deposition, point and nonpoint industrial…
Source: perrysburgoh.govperrysburgoh.gov
Sewers
Sanitary
Perrysburg runs its own 8 million gallon per day wastewater treatment plant; treated flow enters the Maumee River. Household and business wastewater travels to that plant through sanitary lines that have been progressively separated from storm sewers since 1991 under an EPA mandate. Sewer rates inside the city for a single-meter…
Storm
Separated storm sewers collect street and catch-basin runoff and discharge it untreated directly to the Maumee River, so the city's stormwater work is about source control and regulation rather than treatment. With separation largely accomplished, Perrysburg…
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 43551 · Perrysburg59% of residents
Population-weighted resident shares; a ZIP code can have more than one system on record. Recomputed from each ZIP's own system list, not from the map's cached footprint.
Buys from · Sells to
Perrysburg City buys its water from Toledo City Of.
No other system is on record buying water from Perrysburg City.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code in all.
Sources
U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Perrysburg City's own pages: toledo.oh.gov
Notable facts: toledo.oh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov
History: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov
Water quality: perrysburgoh.gov
Planned work: perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov
Water pressure: perrysburgoh.gov
Capital projects: perrysburgoh.gov
Rates: perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov
Sewers: perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov
Treatment: perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov, toledo.oh.gov
Supply stress: perrysburgoh.gov, perrysburgoh.gov