Barberton Reservoir
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The Barberton Reservoir is located in Norton and Copley Township, Ohio, and is operated by Barberton Utilities
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The reservoir was created in 1915 by daming a portion of Wolf Creek for Barber's Anna Dean farm to have a lake for it's 50,000 ducks
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After Barber died in 1920, the city purchased the land and built a 30' high dam with a 400' long spillway
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The reservoir went online in 1926, and in 1949 it's capacity was doubled to it's current 8 million gallons per day
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A side stream super-saturation system has been installed to help with manganese and disinfection byproducts (DBPs)
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