Upper Sandusky City

• Upper Sandusky ran the same lime-softening water plant from 1890 until the last decade or so - by the time engineers evaluated it, parts were close to 120 years old and it sat in the river's flood plain.
• Its replacement runs ultrafiltration plus reverse osmosis, a train more typical of seawater desalination than of a city of under 7,000, chosen to strip more than 90 percent of the organics that drive disinfection…
• The city still has eight combined sewer overflows discharging to the same Sandusky River it drinks from, and files 4-hour and 7-day public notices each time one runs.
• Anyone can buy water at the city's bulk station, and filling a swimming pool costs $16.50 per 1,000 gallons plus labor.

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• 1890City built a lime-softening water treatment plant, sited in the Sandusky River flood plain; it remained in service for well over a century, with components described as nearly 120 years old when…
• undatedCity replaced the 1890 lime-softening plant with a 21,000-square-foot integrated membrane treatment plant (ultrafiltration plus reverse osmosis) designed by AECOM, driven by tightening disinfection…

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How it is treated

Raw water is pumped from the Sandusky River into the city's reservoir(s) for storage - the 2024 CCR names Reservoir #2 - and then treated. AECOM describes the replacement plant as a 21,000-square-foot integrated membrane facility combining ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis, achieving greater than…

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Water pressure

Not published. No pressure figures, hydraulic model, or pressure-zone map could be found in the city's CCRs, water and sewer pages, or public works pages.

$10.50 per 1,000 gallons

Typical household bill about $67 a month for water.

City-published schedule: water consumption $10.50 per 1,000 gallons with a $21.00 per month minimum consumption charge, plus a separate monthly meter unit charge - $25.00 for a…

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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.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Recent and current work

• Integrated membrane water treatment plant (ultrafiltration plus reverse osmosis) · unknown · completed
  21,000 square feet; replaced the 1890 lime-softening plant sited in the Sandusky River flood plain, to meet disinfection byproduct rules. Designed by AECOM…

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The Ohio EPA source water assessment treats all surface waters as susceptible to contamination, and names the specific threats to Upper Sandusky's protection area: agricultural runoff from fields and feedlots, commercial and industrial sources, leaking underground and aboveground storage tanks, home construction runoff, and quarry…

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Sanitary

City-operated wastewater treatment plant at 155 Indian Mill Drive, discharging to the Sandusky River under US EPA permit OH0020001 and Ohio EPA permit 2PD000039. Sewer is billed at $14.50 per 1,000 gallons with a $29.00 monthly minimum.

Storm

Partly combined. The city has eight combined sewer overflows that discharge to the Sandusky River and its tributaries, and posts 4-hour and 7-day CSO notices plus an annual CSO notification report under the US EPA's January 2018 public notification rule…

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