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  "name": "Trimble Village",
  "county": "Athens",
  "population": 480,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "early 1800s",
        "Platted as 'Oxford' before being renamed Trimble to honor Ohio Governor Allen Trimble."
      ],
      [
        "1839",
        "A post office named Trimble began operation and has run continuously since."
      ],
      [
        "1920",
        "Population peaked at 806 during the Sunday Creek coal-mining boom, falling to 329 by the 2020 census."
      ],
      [
        "1997",
        "Ohio EPA found the lower 13 miles of Sunday Creek, which runs through Trimble, could not support aquatic life ('irretrievably damaged') due to low pH from historic coal-mine acid drainage."
      ],
      [
        "2018",
        "An 'Other' (SDWIS rule 420, public-notification/CCR-family) violation opened Dec. 14, 2018 and remains listed as open/unresolved in federal SDWIS as of this review (confirmed directly against the EPA…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Trimble buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own (confirmed: Ohio EPA SDWIS lists Trimble's primary source code as 'GWP' = purchased groundwater). The district's own source is the Hocking River buried-valley aquifer. Federal SDWIS's facility…",
    "press": "Not published. No facility-level pressure/PSI records exist in federal SDWIS for this system (facility table returns empty) and no CCR or engineering document with pressure data…",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No published rate schedule, ordinance, or water-bill figure was found online for this 480-person village; Trimble does not appear to maintain an independent municipal website.",
      "m": null
    },
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    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Trimble sits in the Sunday Creek watershed, historically affected by acid mine drainage from coal mining; Ohio EPA's 1997 study found the lower creek could not support aquatic life due to low pH. However, Trimble's drinking water is drawn from the separate Hocking River buried-valley aquifer via wholesale purchase from Burr Oak Regional…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not determined from available public sources whether Trimble has a municipal sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.",
      "st": "Not determined from available public sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Trimble was originally platted as 'Oxford' before being renamed for Ohio Governor Allen Trimble.",
      "Its post office has operated continuously since 1839.",
      "Like neighboring Jacksonville, Trimble buys its drinking water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than running its own treatment plant, even though both villages grew up as independent coal-mining…"
    ],
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      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Creek_(Ohio)"
      ],
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        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimble,_Ohio"
      ]
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    "caption": "Village hall on Congress Street (State Route 329) in Trimble, Ohio",
    "credit": "Nyttend",
    "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), \"Trimble Village · OH0501703\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0501703/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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