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Our treatment process can take nearly anything out of the water to make it safe to drink, but it’s easier and cheaper if we don’t have to. The first step in providing affordable, safe water to your tap is keeping our source water clean.

Keeping plastic waste out of Lake Erie makes it easier – and cheaper – for us to deliver consistently safe, quality water to your tap. Here are some actions that you can take to start reducing your reliance on single-use plastic.

Each summer, pockets of water with low levels of dissolved oxygen develop in at the bottom of Lake Erie’s Central Basin. These pockets are sometimes referred to as the “dead zone.”

Dissolved oxygen (also called DO) is gaseous oxygen dissolved in water that you can’t see. The level of dissolved oxygen in Lake Erie can have several implications.

Cleveland Water has awarded over $6 million to six suburban service communities for 16 water main replacement projects. These awards are part of our Suburban Water Main Replacement Program and our $25 million annual investment in buried infrastructure.

Our 2021 Water Quality Report is now available. This year, as in previous years, our drinking water met or surpassed all applicable federal and state standards. This report, also called a Consumer Confidence Report, details drinking water quality from the past year and includes other helpful information.