{
  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH1000812",
  "name": "Aqua Ohio - Mohawk",
  "county": "Carroll",
  "population": 2376,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (8 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 8,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH1000812"
  ],
  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Aqua Ohio - Mohawk Wells (Plants 1 & 2, blended)",
      "a": "Lake Mohawk area, Brown/Harrison Township, Carroll County, OH (near Malvern, OH 44644)",
      "la": 40.6469,
      "lo": -81.2046,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Local groundwater aquifer, Carroll County",
      "src": "Eight groundwater wells split between two wellhouses (Plant 1 and Plant 2) around Lake Mohawk, blended into one distribution system",
      "cls": "groundwater"
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1834",
        "Settlement platted by Rev. William Hardesty as the village of Troy."
      ],
      [
        "1840",
        "Renamed Malvern."
      ],
      [
        "1869",
        "Incorporated as a village on May 31, 1869."
      ],
      [
        "1963",
        "Lake Mohawk community and reservoir established by American Realty Service Corporation on 1,728 acres, damming Middle Run (a tributary of Sandy Creek) to form a 507-acre, 23-ft-deep lake -- built for…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Not confirmed by any source read this session. The system reportedly draws from eight groundwater wells split between two wellhouses (Plants 1 and 2) around Lake Mohawk, blended into one distribution system, per the input data -- but this could not be independently verified, and Aqua's…",
    "press": "Not published; no pressure-zone data located.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Lake Mohawk itself (0.79 sq mi / 507 acres, max depth 23 ft, fed by Middle Run) is a private recreational impoundment, not the water system's actual source -- the Mohawk PWS draws from separate groundwater wells near the lake. No capacity or contamination concerns for those wells were found in any source reviewed this session.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not researched/confirmed -- no source found this session covering sanitary sewer service for Malvern/Lake Mohawk.",
      "st": "Not researched/confirmed this session."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Malvern's ZIP code (44644) is shared by Lake Mohawk, described elsewhere as one of Ohio's larger privately owned man-made lakes -- though this specific superlative claim was not independently verified this session.",
      "Malvern was home to some of the first paving bricks made in Ohio: in 1893, the Malvern Clay Company and the Canton & Malvern Fire Clay Paving Brick Company together produced roughly 16.5 million bricks (7.5 million and…",
      "Lake Mohawk was created in 1963 by damming Middle Run, a tributary of Sandy Creek, for a planned gated community rather than as a public water-supply reservoir."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern,_Ohio",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mohawk_(Ohio)"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://www.occ.ohio.gov/factsheet/aqua-ohio-water-rate-increase-25-0594-ww-air"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mohawk_(Ohio)"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern,_Ohio",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mohawk_(Ohio)"
      ]
    }
  },
  "zips_served": [
    {
      "zip": "44644",
      "share": 0.3333,
      "dominant": true
    }
  ],
  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH1000812.jpg",
    "caption": "Malvern, Ohio public library, in the town served by the Aqua Ohio - Mohawk well system",
    "credit": "Roseohioresident",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1000812/",
  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH1000812.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), \"Aqua Ohio - Mohawk · OH1000812\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1000812/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
  "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json"
}