{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH0700511", "name": "Bethesda Public Water System", "county": "Belmont", "population": 1382, "producer": false, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Ohio River valley aquifer (wells)", "bodies": [ "Ohio River (via alluvial aquifer)" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH0700511", "OH0700412" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1852", "Railroad reaches the settlement; a station named 'Burr's Mills' (after sawmill operator Merrick S. Burr) is established in Goshen Township, Belmont County." ], [ "1855", "Burr lays out a village named Fairmount; the post office (retaining the name Bethesda, after a local Methodist church) is later relocated there and its name becomes the village's permanent name." ], [ "1910", "Village of Bethesda formally incorporated." ], [ "2017-2023", "Ohio EPA repeatedly cited the village's Consumer Confidence Reports for missing required content (turbidity language, MCL/MCLG definitions, inaccurate TTHM/HAA5 data, broken CCR web link) and for a…" ], [ "unknown", "No published record found of when Bethesda stopped operating its own wells/plant and began purchasing treated water from the county district." ] ], "treat": "Bethesda does not treat its own water; per its 2025 CCR it purchases finished water from the Belmont County Sanitary Sewer District (referred to elsewhere as the Belmont County Water & Sewer District), whose wells draw from an alluvial aquifer near the Ohio River in Bellaire, Ohio. No public…", "press": "Not published — no CCR, engineering report, or pressure-zone map for OH0700511 or the Belmont County Water & Sewer District was located.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "No Bethesda-specific retail water or sewer rate schedule was found. The Belmont County Water & Sewer District's own posted rate (effective Jan. 1, 2025) is $26.92 minimum plus…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Fluoride", "1.08", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Range 0.89-1.19 ppm; erosion of natural deposits/water additive; no violation." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.555", "ppm", "10", "2025", "Range 0.555-0.555 ppm; well within MCL." ], [ "Gross Alpha", "0.112", "pCi/L", "15", "2020", "Erosion of natural deposits." ], [ "Radium 228 (combined Ra-226/228)", "0.668", "pCi/L", "5.0", "2020", "Erosion of natural deposits." ], [ "Chlorine (residual)", "0.86-1.2", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Additive used to control microbes; no violation." ], [ "TTHM", "44.4", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Range 33.2-44.4 ppb; by-product of chlorination." ], [ "HAA5", "23.7", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Range 17.1-23.7 ppb; by-product of chlorination." ], [ "Lead (90th pct.)", "1.75", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025…", "2 of 60 samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level in the first half of 2025; 0 of 62 samples exceeded it in the second…" ], [ "Copper (90th pct.)", "0.43", "ppm", "1.3 (AL)", "2025…", "0 of 60/62 samples exceeded the action level in either half of 2025 (90th pct. 0.43 ppm and 0.14 ppm)." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "The Ohio EPA source-water susceptibility assessment for the district's well field rates it HIGH susceptibility, citing a relatively permeable silty-clay layer over the aquifer, shallow aquifer depth (under 20 feet), VOC-contaminated soils identified within a one-year time of travel, significant potential contaminant sources in the…", "sew": { "s": "The Village of Bethesda operates its own wastewater treatment facility (confirmed via the village's Public Works page), but no source was found identifying the plant's capacity, receiving stream, or any consent decree.", "st": "Not determined this session; no information found on stormwater management or flooding history for the village." }, "fun": [ "Bethesda's original names were Burr's Mills (when the railroad arrived in 1852) and then Fairmount (1855) before it took its current biblical name from the Bethesda Methodist Church.", "The village's population has stayed relatively stable for over a century (1,182 in 1920; 1,211 in 2020), with peaks of 1,429 in 1980 and 1,413 in 2000.", "Bethesda's 1920 clock tower atop the former Orrison Cigar Company building was removed in 2010 and restored, reopening in 2017 as the Murray Family Memorial Plaza honoring military veterans." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda,_Ohio", "https://www.bethesdaohio.org/images/epa_reports/2025%20Consumer%20Confidence%20Report.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.bethesdaohio.org/images/epa_reports/2025%20Consumer%20Confidence%20Report.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://belmontcountywater.com/rates/" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.bethesdaohio.org/images/epa_reports/2025%20Consumer%20Confidence%20Report.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.bethesdaohio.org/images/epa_reports/2025%20Consumer%20Confidence%20Report.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.bethesdaohio.org/services/public-works.html" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43719", "share": 0.5484, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH0700511.jpg", "caption": "Maple Avenue in Bethesda, Ohio, near the town served by this well-water system", "credit": "Nyttend", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0700511/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH0700511.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), \"Bethesda Public Water System · OH0700511\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH0700511/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }