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  "name": "Mount Orab Village",
  "county": "Brown",
  "population": 6607,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Sterling Run (reservoirs)",
  "bodies": [
    "Sterling Run",
    "Mount Orab Old Reservoir"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Mount Orab Reservoir",
    "Mount Orab Sterling Run"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Village draws surface water from Sterling Run, impounded/stored in the Old Reservoir before treatment; matches SDWIS own_intakes naming both features.",
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    {
      "n": "Mount Orab Village Water Treatment Plant",
      "la": 39.0344,
      "lo": -83.9203,
      "pt": "plant",
      "wb": "Sterling Run",
      "src": "Sterling Run (reservoirs)",
      "cls": "river",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Sterling Run intake",
          "wb": "Sterling Run",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Surface-water intake on Sterling Run at Mount Orab that supplies both raw-water reservoirs",
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          "lo": -83.9203,
          "pt": "intake"
        },
        {
          "n": "Old Reservoir",
          "wb": "Sterling Run (off-stream storage)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "Above-ground raw-water storage reservoir at Mount Orab filled with pumped Sterling Run water",
          "la": 39.0344,
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          "pt": "approximate"
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1850",
        "Mount Orab laid out by Daniel Keether on September 3."
      ],
      [
        "2005",
        "A granular activated carbon stage was added to the village water treatment plant in the fall of 2005, treating filtered water for removal of organic contaminants."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "One of 20 lead samples came back at 18.9 ppb, above the 15 ppb action level, though the 90th-percentile value of 1.9 ppb kept the system in compliance."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "Reporting violation: the village failed to demonstrate to the state that it had delivered the required annual lead service line inventory notifications to affected consumers by July 1, 2025. Public…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "Mt. Orab bought 31.145 million gallons of water from Brown County Rural Water Association across 182 days of the year to supplement its own surface supply."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "The village operates a surface water treatment plant at 116 W. Main St. Raw water is drawn from Sterling Run into two upground raw water reservoirs, then purified by conventional means using coagulation, settling and filtration; since the fall of 2005 the filtered water passes through granular…",
    "press": "not published — no distribution pressure figure appears in the village CCR, fee schedule or Board of Public Affairs pages.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 7.18,
      "n": "Village fee schedule effective January 1, 2025. Inside the village: $20.50 minimum covering the first 2,000 gallons, $7.18 per 1,000 gallons for 2,001-5,000, and $6.66 per 1,000…",
      "m": 34.86
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "28.4",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 15.2-49.5 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "13.5",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 7.4-29.4 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine",
        "1.65",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.27-2.17 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.582",
        "NTU",
        "treatment…",
        "2025",
        "Highest single 2025 result was 0.582 NTU; the lowest monthly share of samples meeting the limit was 99.52%. Standard…"
      ],
      [
        "Total organic carbon (TOC)",
        "1.79",
        "removal…",
        "treatment…",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.68-2.73; a ratio above 1 means the plant met its required TOC removal."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.20",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.37-1.20 ppm. Water purchased from Brown County Rural Water Association measured 1.00 ppm (range 0.77-1.10)."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "1.02",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range below detection to 1.02 ppm. Purchased Brown County water measured 1.41 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.0323",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Purchased Brown County water measured 0.0065 ppm in 2023."
      ],
      [
        "Cyanide, free",
        "1",
        "ppb",
        "200 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        ""
      ],
      [
        "Lead",
        "1.9",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2024",
        "90th-percentile value. 1 of 20 samples came back above the action level, at 18.9 ppb; the system remained in compliance…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Granular activated carbon treatment stage",
        null,
        "2005",
        "completed",
        "Added in the fall of 2005 as an additional stage after filtration, to remove organic contaminants — a direct response to the agricultural pesticide and…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Real and documented, on both quality and quantity. Ohio EPA's source water assessment classifies the protection area around Sterling Run as highly susceptible to contamination, largely because of agricultural fields in the watershed; the CCR states that high levels of pesticides and herbicides commonly applied to those fields are found…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Village-operated sanitary sewer, about 75 miles of sewer line, available only inside village limits — the fee schedule states plainly that no sewer service is provided outside the village. Residential rates effective January 1, 2025 are billed on water consumption: $24.50 minimum for the first 2,000 gallons, $11.03 per 1,000 gallons for…",
      "st": ""
    },
    "fun": [
      "Mt. Orab's water source is monitored by Ohio EPA right at the village's own intake: the Division of Surface Water station is literally named 'STERLING RUN @ MT ORAB WATER INTAKE', at river mile 6.47 in Brown County.",
      "The village does not drink Sterling Run continuously — it watches the creek's quality and simply stops pumping when farm chemicals rise, filling two upground reservoirs when the water is good.",
      "Half the year the tap water is not local: in 2025 Mt. Orab bought 31.145 million gallons from Brown County Rural Water Association across 182 days, and some numbers in its own quality table are that association's…",
      "A three-member Board of Public Affairs runs the water works, meeting at 9:00 a.m. on the first Monday of each month, and it oversees more than 150 miles of water line and 75 miles of sewer line.",
      "The village was platted in 1850 by Daniel Keether."
    ],
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        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf",
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/departments/board-of-public-affairs"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/water-sewer-fees",
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/departments/utilities"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/water-sewer-fees",
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/departments/board-of-public-affairs",
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/departments/utilities"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
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        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/images/vom/Util/mtorabccr2025.pdf",
        "https://www.mtoraboh.us/index.php/departments/board-of-public-affairs",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Orab,_Ohio"
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    "caption": "Water tower in Mount Orab, Ohio, home of the village's water treatment plant on Sterling Run",
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