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  "pwsid": "OH0200112",
  "name": "Bluffton Village",
  "county": "Allen",
  "population": 4125,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Blanchard River (via intake reservoir)",
  "bodies": [
    "Blanchard River"
  ],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH0200112",
    "OH6900711"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "2013-2016",
        "Ten consecutive quarterly total trihalomethane (TTHM) MCL violations recorded in EPA SDWIS, from the quarter ending 2013-12-31 through the quarter ending 2016-03-31, with reported values of 0.083 to…"
      ],
      [
        "2016",
        "SDWIS shows Bluffton's remaining village wells deactivated between 2016-05-05 and 2016-06-03 (Wells 1-5 and the North/South WTP wells; two earlier wells had gone inactive in 2009 and 2010), leaving…"
      ],
      [
        "2021",
        "Consumer confidence report published for Bluffton reports water purchased from the Village of Ottawa off the Blanchard River, a highest single turbidity reading of 0.14 NTU, full compliance with TOC…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Bluffton treats no water of its own. EPA SDWIS lists the system's primary source as purchased surface water through the facility 'CC OTTAWA VILLAGE', a permanent consecutive connection from the Village of Ottawa (PWSID OH6900711). Ottawa draws from the Blanchard River through a river intake plus an…",
    "press": "Not published. No distribution pressure figure appears in any retrievable village document.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule found. The Village of Bluffton has no official website that resolves (blufftonohio.gov, blufftonohio.org, villageofbluffton.com fail DNS; blufftonohio.com is a…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.14",
        "NTU",
        "Treatment…",
        "2021",
        "Highest single reading reported in the Ottawa-treated water Bluffton buys; 100% of samples met the limit."
      ],
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "0.104",
        "mg/L",
        "0.080",
        "2015",
        "Historical. Highest quarterly value in the 2013-2016 MCL violation series, from the era when Bluffton still treated its…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Bluffton's supply is a single purchased connection with no active local source of its own - every village well is listed inactive in EPA's federal inventory. Bluffton's 2021 consumer confidence report describes the Blanchard River source as a surface water susceptible to contamination, with potential contaminant sources in the protection…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not published in any retrievable source. The village operates utility billing (SDWIS lists 1,505 service connections) but no sanitary sewer rate, plant description or NPDES detail was reachable without a working village website.",
      "st": "Not published in any retrievable source."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Bluffton stopped making its own drinking water: all seven village wells are listed inactive in EPA's federal inventory, the last five deactivated between 5 May and 3 June 2016, right after a two-and-a-half-year run of…",
      "The creek that runs through town is not the town's water. Riley Creek flows through Bluffton's 3.78 square miles, but the tap water is Blanchard River water treated by the Village of Ottawa and piped in.",
      "Bluffton's water is softened before it arrives - Ottawa's plant runs a lime-soda ash softening process, so the treatment decisions that shape Bluffton's tap water are made in another town's plant."
    ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH0200112/FACILITY_TYPE_CODE/WL/JSON",
        "https://www.blufftonicon.com/news/2022/06/19/2021-bluffton-drinking-water-consumer-confidence-report"
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH0200112/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH0200112/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH6900711/JSON"
      ],
      "impurities": [
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH0200112/CONTAMINANT_CODE/2950/JSON"
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH0200112/JSON",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluffton,_Ohio",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH6900711/JSON"
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    "url": "/photos/OH0200112.jpg",
    "caption": "The Blanchard River, seen from Riverside Park in Findlay, Ohio, the same river that supplies Bluffton via an intake reservoir",
    "credit": "Avanatt",
    "license": "Public domain"
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
  "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Bluffton Village · OH0200112\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0200112/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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