Editing Loveland, Ohio (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:Loveland Post Office 2019.jpg|thumb|Loveland Post Office]]

===Law enforcement===
Loveland is protected by the Loveland Police Division and the [[Loveland-Symmes Fire Department|Loveland–Symmes Fire Department]], a member of the [[Northeast Fire Collaborative]].<ref name="Bradley">{{cite news|title=Mason joins fire collaborative|first=Eric|last=Bradley|work=Community Press Mason–Deerfield|publisher=The Community Press|date=February 23, 2010|access-date=March 1, 2010|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20100223/NEWS01/2240365/|quote=Mason joins the [[Blue Ash, Ohio|Blue Ash]], Loveland-Symmes, [[Sharonville, Ohio|Sharonville]] and Sycamore Township fire departments in the [Northeast Fire Collaborative], now representing 345 firefighters protecting 71 square miles with a population of about 105,000.}}</ref> Dispatching for both is handled by Northeast Communications Center (NECC), which provides [[Enhanced 911#Wireless enhanced 911|Wireless Enhanced 911]] service and also activates the local network of [[Civil defense siren|tornado siren]]s.<ref name="LSFD Knapp">{{cite web|title=Sirens WILL Sound in Loveland and Symmes|first=Andrew|last=Knapp|work=Cincinnati.com|date=April 18, 2008|access-date=September 23, 2009|url=http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100092&sid=128533|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119091600/http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100092&sid=128533|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>

===Services===
The city lies in the Little Miami [[telephone exchange]], within [[Cincinnati Bell]]'s [[Incumbent local exchange carrier|ILEC]] coverage area.<ref name="PUCO phone maps">{{cite web|title=Ohio Telephone Service Area Maps by County|publisher=[[Public Utilities Commission of Ohio]]|date=December 26, 2003|access-date=April 23, 2008|url=http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/TELCNTY.HTML|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830002729/http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/TELCNTY.HTML|archive-date=August 30, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Loveland receives electric and natural gas services from [[Duke Energy]] Ohio, formerly [[Cinergy|Cincinnati Gas & Electric]].<ref name="PUCO power maps">{{cite web|title=Ohio Electric Service Area Maps by County|publisher=Public Utilities Commission of Ohio|date=December 30, 2003|access-date=April 23, 2008|url=http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/elcnty.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830002733/http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/elcnty.html|archive-date=August 30, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="PUCO gas maps">{{cite web|title=Ohio Gas Service Area Maps by County|publisher=Public Utilities Commission of Ohio|date=July 19, 2005|access-date=April 23, 2008|url=http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/gascnty.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123230213/http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/newcntymaps/gascnty.html|archive-date=January 23, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Waste disposal and recycling services are provided by [[Rumpke Sanitary Landfill|Rumpke]] through the Southwest Ohio Regional Refuse (SWORRE) consortium.<ref name="Herald Houck waste">{{cite news|title=City manager says solid-waste contract will save residents more than $320,000|first=Jeanne|last=Houck|work=The Loveland Herald|publisher=The Community Press|date=October 6, 2010|access-date=October 8, 2010|url=http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20101006/NEWS09/10060356/|quote=Loveland City Council approved a contract for solid-waste and recycling services with Rumpke Consolidated Companies of [[Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio|Colerain Township]] through the Southwest Ohio Regional Refuse consortium...}}</ref> Loveland has water interconnectivity agreements with the City of Cincinnati and Clermont County.<ref name="Cincinnati Lehr">{{cite news|title=New Plan to Pool Water Resources|first=Kathy|last=Lehr|work=Cincinnati.com|date=July 22, 2008|access-date=July 24, 2008|url=http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100092&sid=132894|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119090929/http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100092&sid=132894|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> Loveland's Polk Run Wastewater Treatment Plant is part of Hamilton County's [[Metropolitan Sewer District (Cincinnati)|Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District]] (MSD) under a 1985 operating agreement. The city sought to end the agreement in 2008, due to district-wide rate increases,<ref name="Enquirer Brunsman">{{cite news|title=Loveland wants its sewer plant|first=Barrett J.|last=Brunsman|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=October 30, 2008|access-date=October 30, 2008|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20081030/NEWS01/810300387/|quote=City officials want out of the sewer district by 2010 because of rate increases.... Loveland owns the Polk Run waste-water treatment plant, but Hamilton County has operated it since 1985, [Tom] Carroll said.}}</ref> but was barred from leaving MSD by a court ruling affirmed by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|U.S. 6th Circuit Appeals Court]].<ref name="Enquirer Horn">{{cite news|title=Court: Loveland can't leave MSD|first=Dan|last=Horn|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=September 15, 2010|access-date=September 16, 2010|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100915/NEWS01/9160312/|quote=The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Wednesday that barred the city from pulling its waste-water treatment plant out of the sewer district.}}</ref>