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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH0700114",
  "name": "Bellaire Public Water System",
  "county": "Belmont",
  "population": 4278,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Ohio River (via bank infiltration wells)",
  "bodies": [
    "Ohio River (via bank infiltration)"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Bellaire Infiltration"
  ],
  "wells": 2,
  "aquifer": "Ohio River alluvial aquifer (infiltration gallery/wells along the riverbank)",
  "notes": "Bellaire's water plant and wells sit on the Ohio River bank; supply comes from an infiltration gallery/wells drawing river-influenced groundwater (GU under direct influence of the Ohio River), not deep isolated groundwater.",
  "urls": [
    "https://wtov9.com/news/local/bellaire-water-treatment-plant-tip-of-the-infrastructure-upgrade-iceberg",
    "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2021/09/bellaire-taking-steps-to-protect-underground-drinking-water-source/"
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Bellaire Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "217 37th Street, Bellaire, OH 43906",
      "la": 40.0187,
      "lo": -80.7454,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Ohio River (via bank infiltration)",
      "src": "Ohio River (via bank infiltration wells)",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Bellaire infiltration gallery",
          "wb": "Ohio River (via bank infiltration)",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Horizontal infiltration gallery (a perforated pipe/collector under the riverbed) near the treatment plant on 37th Street that draws Ohio River water filtered through the alluvial bank/aquifer",
          "la": 40.0187,
          "lo": -80.7454,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "Bellaire production well",
          "wb": "Ohio River alluvial aquifer (well field)",
          "role": "secondary",
          "src": "Vertical groundwater production well(s) in the same riverside well field as the infiltration gallery, drawing from the Ohio River alluvial aquifer",
          "la": 40.0187,
          "lo": -80.7454,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
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    }
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1836",
        "Settlement officially founded as 'Bell Air', its name inspired by the Maryland town of the same name; the railroad's arrival in the mid-19th century gave the modern spelling 'Bellaire'."
      ],
      [
        "1901-1984",
        "Bellaire became a glass-manufacturing hub after late-19th-century natural gas discoveries — the 'Glass City'. Imperial Glass Company, founded there in 1901, was among the largest US handmade glass…"
      ],
      [
        "2021 (Sept)",
        "Village Council gave a first reading to a Source Water Protection Area ordinance aimed at minimizing contamination of the shallow surficial aquifer feeding the village's riverbank wellfield, with a…"
      ],
      [
        "2023",
        "Two air strippers were placed in service by the end of the year to strip tetrachloroethylene ('TCE' in the village's own reporting) from groundwater in a four-block downtown test-well area between…"
      ],
      [
        "2025…",
        "The treatment plant flooded in March 2025; the village bought 950,000 gallons from Belmont County that month. EPA SDWIS records a non-health-based monitoring/reporting violation (Tier 3 public…"
      ],
      [
        "2025 (Jul)",
        "A large water line break led the village to draw a further 650,000 gallons through its Belmont County interconnection."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Bellaire's plant at 217 37th Street draws from the Ohio River (SDWIS classes the system as surface water; the village's wells are riverbank infiltration wells and the source water assessment discusses an aquifer less than 30 feet deep). The source watershed is the Upper Ohio Wheeling watershed…",
    "press": "Not published. No pressure-zone or psi figures appear in the 2025 CCR, the water department page or the codified ordinances.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published. Bellaire's codified ordinance 923.21 states only that 'Water rates shall be established in the manner as authorized by the Ohio Revised Code'; the actual schedule…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "67.4",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Disinfection by-product; range 38.3-67.4 ppb; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "16.8",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Disinfection by-product; range 7.42-16.8 ppb; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0.0",
        "ppb",
        "15 (AL)",
        "2025",
        "90th percentile 0.0 ppb in both 2025 monitoring periods. 1 of 40 samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level in Jan-Jun…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.0077",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (AL)",
        "2025",
        "Jan-Jun 2025: 0.0077 ppm; Jul-Dec 2025: 0.00627 ppm. 0 of 40 samples over the action level in both periods."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "1.65",
        "ppm",
        "4.0 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Disinfectant residual; range 1.22-1.88 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.12",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Natural deposits plus fluoridation additive; range 0.80-1.30 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate (as N)",
        "2.36",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.841-2.36 ppm; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.20",
        "NTU",
        "1.0 (TT)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.04-0.20 NTU; 100% of samples below the treatment-technique value and the 0.3 NTU/95% standard; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)",
        "1.0",
        "ratio",
        "TT (must exceed…",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.0-1.0; a value above 1 indicates compliance with TOC removal requirements. Reported as no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Selenium",
        "3.21",
        "ppb",
        "50",
        "2024",
        "Discharge from petroleum/metal refineries and mines."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "TCE air-stripper installation",
        null,
        "2023",
        "completed",
        "Two air strippers in service by the end of 2023 to remove tetrachloroethylene from groundwater in a four-block downtown test-well area (32nd-36th Streets, SR 7…"
      ],
      [
        "Village-wide water meter replacement with service line material inspection",
        null,
        "",
        "under construction",
        "Mandatory residential meter replacement at no cost to owners, by contractors Fort Steuben Maintenance (41st Street north) and Newman (rest of town and Route…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Lead / galvanized service line replacement",
        null,
        "",
        "needed",
        "Any service line found to be lead or galvanized steel during the meter-replacement inspections must be reported to Ohio EPA and added to a replacement list. No…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer supplying Bellaire's wells as having 'very high susceptibility' to contamination, citing a relatively thin layer of sediment over the aquifer, a significant contaminant source inside the protection area, man-made contaminants already present in the aquifer, and the aquifer's shallow…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The village operates its own sanitary sewer system under Chapter 921 of its codified ordinances (which sets a $1.25 per month per dwelling-unit sewer user fee plus usage-based charges for commercial and industrial customers). The treatment plant name, capacity and receiving stream are not published. Note: the Fox Shannon wastewater plant…",
      "st": "Not documented in available sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Bellaire's supply is legally drawn from wells but hydrologically it is the Ohio River: the plant sits on the riverbank and its wells are bank-infiltration wells into an aquifer less than 30 feet deep, and EPA classes…",
      "The village keeps an emergency interconnection with the Belmont County Water & Sewer District at Klee Crossing in West Bellaire and takes water through it routinely to keep the connection exercised. In 2025 it took 1.95…",
      "Bellaire was nicknamed 'Glass City' after late-19th-century natural gas discoveries drew glassmakers; Imperial Glass, founded there in 1901, was among the largest handmade glass manufacturers in 20th-century America…",
      "Because a dry-cleaning solvent plume sits under a four-block stretch of downtown, Bellaire tests its water for volatile organic compounds every month — three times more often than the rules require.",
      "The big $72 million water-and-sewer program often associated with Bellaire is not the village's: it is the Belmont County Water & Sewer District's, including the district's own new plant on a 2.5-acre site off Ohio 7."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/community/village-history/",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellaire,_Ohio",
        "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2021/09/bellaire-taking-steps-to-protect-underground-drinking-water-source/",
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH0700114/JSON"
      ],
      "pressure": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf",
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/departments/water-department/"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/codified-ordinances-of-bellaire-part-nine/",
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/government/ordinances/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf",
        "https://www.timesleaderonline.com/news/local-news/2021/09/bellaire-taking-steps-to-protect-underground-drinking-water-source/"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/codified-ordinances-of-bellaire-part-nine/",
        "https://wtov9.com/news/local/bellaire-water-treatment-plant-tip-of-the-infrastructure-upgrade-iceberg"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-ccr.pdf",
        "https://villageofbellaire.org/community/village-history/",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellaire,_Ohio",
        "https://wtov9.com/news/local/bellaire-water-treatment-plant-tip-of-the-infrastructure-upgrade-iceberg"
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    "caption": "The Ohio River at Bellaire, source of the town's bank-infiltration well field",
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