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  "name": "Jacksonville Village",
  "county": "Athens",
  "population": 481,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1879",
        "Jacksonville village was laid out by Oliver D. Jackson, for whom it is named, growing up around coal mining along Sunday Creek."
      ],
      [
        "1884",
        "A Jacksonville post office was established; it continues operating today."
      ],
      [
        "1910",
        "Jacksonville's population peaked at about 1,285 during the coal-mining era."
      ],
      [
        "1997",
        "An Ohio EPA study found the lower 13 miles of Sunday Creek 'irretrievably damaged to the extent that no appreciable aquatic life can be supported' by acid mine drainage from historic coal mining…"
      ],
      [
        "2000-2020",
        "EPA federal SDWIS records show a recurring string of rule-420 'Other'-category monitoring violations (2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2020), several still listed as ongoing years later…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Two major Stage 2 DBP Rule (rule 220) monitoring/reporting violations covering Q1 2024 were logged and resolved by April 2024; a separate rule-410 violation opened May 2025 was also resolved."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Jacksonville buys finished, already-treated water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District (PWSID OH0501311) rather than treating its own, confirmed via EPA SDWIS facility records showing an interconnection labeled 'CC FROM BURR OAK REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT.' Burr Oak Regional's own facility…",
    "press": "Not published — no CCR or engineering document found for Jacksonville or its wholesaler Burr Oak Regional Water District, and no working village website was found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not found published online for this 481-person village; no working village website was located.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Lead, tap water samples",
        "0-0.0018",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015 mg/L…",
        "undated",
        "Four individual SDWIS lead-and-copper sample results, all well under the federal action level; exact sample dates are…"
      ]
    ],
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    "stress": "Jacksonville sits in the Sunday Creek watershed, one of Ohio's most acid-mine-drainage-impacted watersheds from historic coal mining (confirmed: 1997 Ohio EPA study, lower 13 miles). Its drinking water is purchased from Burr Oak Regional Water District, whose supply draws on both groundwater wells and a surface-water intake from Burr Oak…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not determined from available public sources whether Jacksonville has its own sanitary sewer system or relies on septic; failing septic systems are a documented widespread problem elsewhere in the Sunday Creek watershed (per Rural Action's Sunday Creek Watershed Group).",
      "st": "Not determined from available public sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Jacksonville's population peaked around 1,285 in 1910 during the coal-mining era and has fallen to about 400-481 today.",
      "The village buys its water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than running its own treatment plant; that district's own supply is a mix of six groundwater wells and a surface-water intake from Burr…",
      "It sits in the Sunday Creek watershed, notorious for acid-mine-drainage-orange water in its lower reaches — a legacy of the same coal industry that built the village."
    ],
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      ],
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    "caption": "Buildings on Sixth Street near Main Street in Jacksonville, Ohio",
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