Articles About Village Water and Wastewater

• Village Council | ‘Forever chemicals’ in municipal water

  By Reilly DixonOctober 16, 2023

  

  Out of 30 samples the Village water department took this April, only one registered above the detection limit at 9.2 parts per trillion — a level significantly below the current health advisory limit, but above the proposed maximum level of contamination.

• Yellow Springs water towers to be rehabbed, painted

  By Reilly DixonJuly 11, 2023

  

  On Wednesday, July 5, crews kicked off the two-year long process of rehabbing and painting the two Village water towers at Gaunt Park.

• Yellow Springs wins ‘best’ water

  By Jessica ThomasMay 25, 2023

  

  At the Monday, May 15, Village Council meeting, Public Works Director Johnnie Burns opened the meeting with a celebration — Yellow Springs had won the Ohio Rural Water Association’s 2023 water tasting competition.

• East Palestine train derailment | Village water safe, experts say

  By Reilly DixonMarch 8, 2023

  

  In the five weeks since a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, concerns about water and air safety have come home to Yellow Springs.

• Keep on truckin’

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 1, 2022

  

  Amid the sunny skies and clement weather of late summer, area youngsters and their families were treated with the opportunity to get up close and personal with fleets of emergency and service vehicles at the Touch-a-Truck event on Friday, Aug. 26.

• Mechanical failure causes sludge spill

  By Reilly DixonJune 7, 2022

  

  On Saturday, May 28, around 6 p.m., a mechanical failure at the Village’s municipal water and wastewater treatment plant led to nearly 750 gallons of sludge spilling out of the facility.

• Yellow Springs buys sludge press

  By Reilly DixonMarch 23, 2022

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is now the proud owner of a nine-ton, seven-foot-tall sludge press. Its purpose? Simply put, to squeeze out any remaining water from the biosolids that run through our municipal water and wastewater treatment plant.

• Plan to protect local drinking water updated

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2018

  

  An update the Village of Yellow Springs Wellhead Protection Plan, first passed in 2001, features new strategies to protect the aquifer that is the source of local drinking water.

• New setting for water softeners

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 26, 2018

  

  With the Village of Yellow Springs’ new $7.2 million water plant now online, residents should adjust their water softeners to a new setting — 15 grains per gallon.

• Council nears water softening vote

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 2, 2015

  

  Village Council is close to approving a water softening component to its proposed new water plant, slated for construction in 2016.