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Its 2025 CCR corrects the 2024 TTHM figure to 107.0 ppb with a range of 46.5-128 ppb (against an 80 ppb MCL), and the 2024 HAA5 figure to 13.2…" ] ], "treat": "Three wells near the Hocking River, north of the water treatment plant, drawing from the Hocking River Aquifer. The CCR describes treatment as ion exchange — passing water through a resin that removes charged inorganic contaminants such as arsenic, chromium, nitrate, radium, uranium and excess…", "press": "not published — no distribution pressure figure appears in the city's CCR, rate documents or utility pages.", "rate": { "g": 18.15, "n": "City of Nelsonville rate memo signed by the city manager, water increase effective March 1, 2026: in town, $27.28 minimum covering the first 1,500 gallons, then $18.15 per 1,000…", "m": 72.66 }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "NA (range…", "ppb", "80 (MCL)", "2025", "MCL violation — the 2025 CCR marks TTHM 'Violation: Yes' and reports no single compliance value ('NA'), with individual…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "14.7", "ppb", "60 (MCL)", "2025", "No violation." ], [ "Chlorine (as Cl2)", "1.14", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Range 0.82-1.14 ppm." ], [ "Nitrate (as nitrogen)", "0.29", "ppm", "10 (MCL)", "2025", "" ], [ "Lead", "1.6", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2025", "90th-percentile value; range 0.4-3.6 ppb; 0 samples above the action level. The city's Ohio EPA service line inventory…" ], [ "Copper", "0.152", "ppm", "1.3 (action…", "2025", "90th-percentile value; range 0.009-0.193 ppm; 0 samples above the action level." ], [ "Barium", "0.02221", "ppm", "2 (MCL)", "2023", "" ], [ "Fluoride", "0.89", "ppm", "4 (MCL)", "2023", "" ], [ "Cyanide", "1", "ppb", "200 (MCL)", "2023", "" ], [ "Lithium", "0.014", "mg/L", "none…", "2025", "Range 0.013-0.015 mg/L, collected under EPA's additional-monitoring program." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Regional Collection System Improvements Phase 3 (sanitary sewer)", 2700000, "2022", "under construction", "Ohio EPA Water Pollution Control Loan Fund loan CS390649-0021, fully eligible for principal forgiveness. Over 12,000 feet of new gravity sewer, 4,000 linear…" ], [ "New regional wastewater treatment plant, Elm Rock Road", null, "2022", "under construction", "Under construction as of Ohio EPA's May 2022 environmental assessment and funded through the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund; replaces the existing plant and…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer supplying Nelsonville as highly susceptible to contamination, citing the lack of a protective clay or shale layer over the aquifer, a shallow aquifer depth of less than 10 feet below ground surface, significant potential contaminant sources inside the protection area, and man-made…", "sew": { "s": "City of Nelsonville owns and operates the sanitary collection system and a wastewater treatment plant, serving roughly 1,700 customers inside the city and 300 outside it, plus regionalized connections from Murray City and Carbon Hill, with Buchtel's system acquired and Imperial, Doanville and Railroad Street being added (Ohio EPA, 2022).…", "st": "Separate storm sewers exist in at least part of the city: Ohio EPA's 2022 environmental assessment records that the sanitary sewer near Myers Street ran directly through a storm sewer catch basin, a direct pollution pathway to the Hocking River, which the…" }, "fun": [ "Nelsonville sits along the Hocking River, with Monday Creek running through the eastern part of town.", "Canal Street runs over the former route of the historic Hocking Canal.", "During Morgan's Raid in July 1863, Confederate cavalry burned ten wooden canal boats at Nelsonville but failed to destroy a covered bridge over the canal — townspeople put out the fire once the raiders rode off.", "In 1888 Nelsonville became the first city in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains to light its streets electrically citywide.", "The city sells water by the gallon at City Hall — bulk water is $0.013 per gallon — and its water system also supplies the neighboring Village of Buchtel." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelsonville,_Ohio", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/ccr", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/utilites-documents/169-final-ea-nelsonville-collection-sys-ph3/download", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/water-sewer/water-sewer-rates/549-water-sewer-rates/download" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/ccr" ], "rates": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/water-sewer/water-sewer-rates/549-water-sewer-rates/download", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/water-sewer/water-sewer-rates" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/ccr" ], "projects": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/utilites-documents/169-final-ea-nelsonville-collection-sys-ph3/download" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/ccr" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/utilites-documents/169-final-ea-nelsonville-collection-sys-ph3/download", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/water-sewer/water-sewer-rates/549-water-sewer-rates/download" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelsonville,_Ohio", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/water-sewer/water-sewer-rates/549-water-sewer-rates/download", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/ccr", "https://www.cityofnelsonville.com/utilities/utilites-documents/169-final-ea-nelsonville-collection-sys-ph3/download" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45764", "share": 0.5575, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH0501214.jpg", "caption": "Public square in downtown Nelsonville, Ohio, served by the city's groundwater well system", "credit": "Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant)", "license": "CC BY-SA 2.5" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0501214/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH0501214.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), \"Nelsonville · OH0501214\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0501214/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }