{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH1301411", "name": "Williamsburg Village", "county": "Clermont", "population": 2490, "producer": false, "source_class": "reservoir", "label": "William H. Harsha Lake plus wells in the Little Miami River and Ohio River aquifers", "bodies": [ "William H. Harsha Lake (East Fork Lake)", "East Fork Little Miami River", "Little Miami River", "Ohio River" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH1301411", "OH1302212" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1796", "Village founded by General William Lytle of Cincinnati and named for Williamsburg, Virginia." ], [ "early 1800s", "Stone dairy house at Harmony Hill, 299 South Third Street, built; the village describes it as the oldest standing structure in Clermont County." ], [ "undated", "Williamsburg served as the original county seat of Clermont County before the seat moved to Batavia. (The village history page states the fact without a date; no primary source located for the…" ], [ "2025", "CCR reports the village buys all its finished water in bulk from Clermont County's Bob McEwen Water Treatment Plant through two cross-connections (State Route 276 and Old State Route 32), with an…" ] ], "treat": "No drinking water treatment plant of its own. The village buys finished water from Clermont County's Bob McEwen Water Treatment Plant (Clermont County PWSID 1302212), which treats surface water drawn from William H. Harsha Lake on the East Fork Little Miami River using granular activated carbon…", "press": "Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR, the water/sewer rate page, nor the Public Works page states a system pressure or shows a pressure-zone map.", "rate": { "g": 11.94, "n": "In-village residential: $28.54 minimum covering the first 3,000 gallons, then $11.94 per 1,000 gallons above that. Outside the village: $38.92 minimum per 3,000 gallons plus…", "m": 28.54 }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "49.93", "ppb", "80 ppb MCL", "2025", "Village of Williamsburg's own distribution system; range 31.3-66.5 ppb." ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "25.7", "ppb", "60 ppb MCL", "2025", "Village's own distribution system; range 13.9-39.0 ppb. By-product of chlorination at the county plant." ], [ "Total chlorine", "1.24", "ppm", "MRDL 4 ppm", "2025", "Village distribution system; range 0.24-1.92 ppm." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "2.6", "ppb", "15 ppb action…", "2025", "0 of 10 samples exceeded the action level; range <0.4-3.3 ppb." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.071", "ppm", "1.3 ppm action…", "2025", "0 of 10 samples exceeded the action level; range 0.003-0.109 ppm. Corrected: the earlier draft dated this 2023, which…" ], [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) - Clermont…", "73.32", "ppb", "80 ppb MCL", "2025", "Reported in the Clermont County table of the same CCR. This, not the village's 49.93 ppb, is the reading that sits…" ], [ "Nitrate - Clermont County wholesale…", "1.32", "ppm", "10 ppm MCL", "2025", "Appears only in the Clermont County table; Williamsburg does not report its own nitrate result. Well under the MCL." ], [ "Fluoride - Clermont County wholesale…", "0.99", "ppm", "4 ppm MCL", "2025", "Appears only in the Clermont County table. Water additive plus natural source." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "Williamsburg has no source of its own. All routine supply is finished surface water from Clermont County's Harsha Lake / East Fork Little Miami River intake, reaching the village through just two cross-connections (SR 276 and Old SR 32). The published fallback is an emergency connection to Brown County Rural Water Association's Ohio…", "sew": { "s": "The village owns and operates its own wastewater treatment plant; the Public Works Supervisor is the operator in charge. Sewer rates are $31.92 minimum per 3,000 gallons plus $11.08 per 1,000 gallons over, with a $3,400 capacity/installation fee for single-family residential and a $25 inspection fee (plus a $1,517.95 special valve…", "st": "Not established. Public Works lists street maintenance among its duties but publishes no stormwater program, fee, or flooding history. (The earlier draft's reference to a 'Streets/Stormwater' page with a separate function could not be substantiated.)" }, "fun": [ "Williamsburg takes its drinking water from Clermont County through two separate physical cross-connections, on SR 276 and Old SR 32, rather than a single feed.", "Its emergency backup is a tie to a different county's rural water association - Brown County Rural Water, which pumps from 13 wells in the Ohio River Valley Aquifer - so the fallback supply is groundwater rather than…", "The village claims the oldest standing structure in Clermont County: an early-1800s stone dairy house at Harmony Hill, 299 South Third Street.", "Williamsburg buys every gallon it drinks but treats its own sewage at a village-owned wastewater plant.", "The village was founded in 1796 by General William Lytle and named for Williamsburg, Virginia." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/community/history/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg,_Ohio", "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc" ], "treatment": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc", "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/water-sewer/" ], "pressure": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc", "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/" ], "rates": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/water-sewer/" ], "impurities": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc" ], "water_stress": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc", "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/water-sewer/" ], "sewer": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/water-sewer/", "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/departments/public-works-department/" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://williamsburgohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR-final-1.doc", "https://williamsburgohio.org/index.php/community/history/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45176", "share": 0.4054, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "45103", "share": 0.0258, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH1301411.jpg", "caption": "Overview of William H. 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