{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH0100112", "name": "Manchester Village", "county": "Adams", "population": 2043, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 2, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH0100112" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1790", "Founded by Nathaniel Massie as 'Massie's Station,' the first permanent settlement in the Virginia Military District; renamed Manchester (after Massie's ancestral Manchester, England) in 1791." ], [ "2000", "6th Circuit decided Adams County Regional Water District v. Village of Manchester, Ohio, 226 F.3d 513, a dispute between the village and a federally indebted rural water utility over water service…" ], [ "2010", "Village completed its Drinking Water Source Protection Plan, identifying a nearby trailer park's sewer lines (within 300 ft of Well #6) as a groundwater contamination risk. (Not independently…" ], [ "2017-2024", "Manchester's annual CCR was reportedly cited nearly every year for content errors -- omitting or misreporting barium, copper, lead, chlorine, cyanide, fluoride, or HAA5 results. (Not independently…" ], [ "2024-2025", "Reportedly failed to monitor disinfection byproducts from July-Sept 2024 (compliance restored Aug 2025) and missed the Oct 2024 federal deadline for a lead service line inventory (compliance restored…" ] ], "treat": "Groundwater from 2 wells drawing on the Ohio River aquifer; researcher's draft describes chlorine disinfection plus potassium permanganate for iron/manganese removal, pressure filtration through coal and silicate sand, a secondary chlorine dose, and a corrosion inhibitor before storage. This…", "press": "Not published -- no psi figures found in any accessible source.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Current residential rate schedule not published in any source located; village bills water and sewer online but no per-1,000-gallon rate or fixed charge could be found.", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Nitrate", "2.91", "ppm", "10", "2025", "From fertilizer runoff/septic leaching; well below MCL. Figure carried over from researcher's draft; primary CCR…" ], [ "TTHM (total trihalomethanes)", "21.7", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Range 3.3-21.7 ppb, chlorination byproduct. Not independently re-verified this pass." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.817", "ppm", "1.3 (action…", "2025", "0 of 10 sites over action level per researcher's draft; notably higher than most small Ohio systems. A secondary…" ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "2.5", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2025", "0 of 10 sites over action level per researcher's draft; not independently re-verified this pass." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [ [ "Lead service line inventory", null, "2025", "completed", "Reportedly missed the Oct 16, 2024 federal deadline; village reportedly returned to compliance Sept 18, 2025 (no lead/galvanized/unknown lines identified).…" ] ], "stress": "Manchester draws groundwater from wells in the Ohio River aquifer rather than the river itself. Amazon Web Services is evaluating roughly 1,000 acres in nearby Sprigg Township, Adams County for a 1,300-megawatt data center (about 30x the county's current annual electricity use); this is a proposed/evaluated project, not yet built, and…", "sew": { "s": "The village's own Water/Sewage Department reportedly runs sanitary sewer service; published details on the wastewater plant's capacity, receiving stream, and any CSO or consent-decree status were not found.", "st": "Not published." }, "fun": [ "Manchester was founded in 1790 as 'Massie's Station,' the first permanent settlement in the Virginia Military District, and renamed after Manchester, England the following year -- it is also commonly cited as the fourth…", "The village's water comes from just 2 wells tapping the Ohio River aquifer beneath the town, not the river itself.", "A 2000 federal appeals court case, Adams County Regional Water District v. Village of Manchester, pitted the village against a regional rural water utility over the right to serve customers in the area.", "Amazon Web Services is evaluating a roughly 1,000-acre, 1,300-megawatt data center site near Manchester on the grounds of a former coal-plant landfill -- a project still in the proposal stage, not yet built." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_Ohio", "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/226/513/562079/" ], "impurities": [ "https://purewaterguys.com/blogs/water-quality-reports/manchester-oh-water-quality-report-2026" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2026-08-25/adams-county-ohio-utility-costs-data-center-amazon" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_Ohio", "https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2026-08-25/adams-county-ohio-utility-costs-data-center-amazon", "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/226/513/562079/" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45144", "share": 0.4767, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH0100112.jpg", "caption": "Looking east on Second Street (US 52) in Manchester, Ohio", "credit": "Aesopposea", "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0100112/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH0100112.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Manchester Village · OH0100112\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0100112/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }