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  "pwsid": "OH1203312",
  "name": "New Carlisle City",
  "county": "Clark",
  "population": 5800,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (4 wells)",
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  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 4,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1810",
        "Settlement laid out under the name Monroe; later renamed for Carlisle, Pennsylvania, birthplace of some of the first settlers. Incorporated as a village in 1831."
      ],
      [
        "1933",
        "John Dillinger committed his first bank robbery at the New Carlisle National Bank on June 21, taking about $10,000. The building still stands at Main and Jefferson streets."
      ],
      [
        "1973",
        "New Carlisle elevated from village to city status."
      ],
      [
        "1991-1999",
        "Compliance sampling found detectable 1,1,1-trichloroethane in raw well water on nine occasions, at 0.6 to 1.6 ug/L — well below the 200 ug/L MCL, but evidence of a pathway from the surface into the…"
      ],
      [
        "1993 onward",
        "Nitrate exceeded Ohio EPA's 2 mg/L concentration of concern on 17 occasions in raw and treated water, ranging 2.13 to 4.6 mg/L, all below the 10 mg/L MCL."
      ],
      [
        "2020",
        "Wells sampled under Ohio's statewide PFAS initiative; PFAS detected below the Ohio EPA action level. The system also took part in the UCMR5 round."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Groundwater from deep wells (SDWIS lists four) drawing on a sand-and-gravel aquifer in a glacier-scoured buried valley. The wellfield sits north and east of the Water Treatment Plant at 434 N. Main Street, bounded at the surface by a shopping center, Main Street, and commercial and residential…",
    "press": "Not published. The system is fed by the 1.7-million-gallon Scarff Road elevated tower, but no psi figure or pressure-zone information appears in city materials.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published online. Confirmed absent from the Public Services water page, the Finance Department page, and the Finance Department's own Water/Sewer page, which covers…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Nitrate (as nitrogen)",
        "2.30",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Below the MCL but above Ohio EPA's 2 mg/L concentration of concern, consistent with the aquifer's documented nitrate…"
      ],
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "40.1",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Chlorination byproduct; range 12.6-40.1 ppb from 2 samples collected."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine residual",
        "1.05",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Running annual average (CCR prints 1.046667); range 0.72-1.20 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 20 samples exceeded the lead action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "not reliably…",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (action…",
        "2025",
        "Flagged as a probable CCR error rather than a result. The 2025 CCR prints 1.3 in the 90th-percentile column — exactly…"
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.400",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.400-0.400 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.264",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2020",
        "Range 0.264-0.264 ppm. Low enough to suggest the system does not actively fluoridate."
      ],
      [
        "Gross alpha",
        "2.85",
        "pCi/L",
        "15 (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Naturally occurring radioactivity from erosion of deposits."
      ],
      [
        "PFAS (sum)",
        "6.1",
        "ppt",
        "below Ohio EPA…",
        "2020",
        "Statewide PFAS Sampling Initiative; follow-up monitoring ongoing. The CCR does not state which Ohio EPA action level…"
      ],
      [
        "PFBS",
        "0.0049",
        "ppb",
        "unregulated",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.0043-0.0055 ppb."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Ground Water Source Protection Program completion",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "The 2025 CCR states the city is currently working to complete its Ground Water Source Protection Program, prompted by the aquifer's high susceptibility rating.…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA rates the aquifer highly susceptible to contamination, and the CCR gives three specific reasons: detected volatile organic compounds and elevated nitrate imply a pathway from the ground surface into the aquifer; discontinuous clay layers within the aquifer offer little to no protection against contaminant transport from the…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City-owned wastewater treatment plant rated 1.0 mgd using aerobic digestion with clarifiers and filtration, running about 500,000 gallons per day. It serves New Carlisle plus nearby residential developments, mobile home parks, North Hampton, and Northwestern Local Schools via roughly 35 miles of sewer and 200 manholes. The city files an…",
      "st": "Not detailed in published city materials; no separate stormwater utility or fee identified."
    },
    "fun": [
      "New Carlisle's drinking water comes from a wellfield whose surface footprint is a shopping center and Main Street, but whose underground recharge area extends several miles north — the city has posted signs marking the…",
      "Gangster John Dillinger's very first bank robbery, on June 21, 1933, hit the New Carlisle National Bank for about $10,000. The building still stands at Main and Jefferson.",
      "The city tested its finished water for radon exactly once, in 2011, finding 2.36 pCi/L. Radon in tap water is not a federally regulated contaminant, and the test has not been repeated.",
      "The wastewater plant serves more than just New Carlisle — North Hampton and the Northwestern Local Schools are on the same 1.0 mgd system."
    ],
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      "treatment": [
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/public-services/water/"
      ],
      "pressure": [
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/public-services/water/"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/finance-department/water-sewer/",
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/public-services/water/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
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      ],
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        "https://newcarlisleohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carlisle,_Ohio"
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