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Total organic carbon removal, a treatment-technique requirement, ran at a ratio of 1.8-2.2…", "press": "Not published. No psi or pressure-zone data appears in the 2025 CCR or on the village website.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published. No per-1,000-gallon rate, minimum charge or typical bill appears in the CCR or on the Board of Public Affairs page, which lists only utility deposits — residential…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "55.4", "ppb", "80", "2025", "Highest four-quarter running average; range printed in the CCR as 42.7-54.0 ppb; no violation." ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "40.0", "ppb", "60", "2025", "Four-quarter running average; range 25.4-45.0 ppb; no violation." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.28", "NTU", "TT (0.3 NTU in…", "2025", "Highest recorded result of the year 0.28 NTU; range 0.02-0.28; 100% of samples met the limit. The CCR's table lists 0.2…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.153", "ppm", "1.3 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 20 sites over the action level." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.1", "ppb", "15 (AL)", "2025", "0 of 20 sites over the action level." ], [ "Chlorine", "1.4", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Water additive used to control microbes; range 1.2-1.5 ppm." ], [ "Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio)", "1.8", "ratio", "TT (must exceed…", "2025", "Range 1.8-2.2; a value above 1 means the system meets TOC removal requirements." ], [ "Barium", "0.035", "ppm", "2", "2025", "Erosion of natural deposits; drilling waste and metal refinery discharge." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.18", "ppm", "4", "2025", "Erosion of natural deposits / water additive; no violation." ], [ "Cyanide", "1.0", "ppb", "200", "2025", "Typical source: steel/metal or plastics/fertilizer factory discharge; no violation." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Lead and Copper Rule service line material inventory", null, "", "completed", "The village compiled the required service line inventory; it can be viewed at the Board of Public Affairs office, 318 East Main Street, or by calling the water…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Blanchester's intakes are surface water, and Ohio treats all surface water as highly susceptible to contamination by default — such sources are readily accessible and can be reached by chemicals or pathogens with little warning. The village's own drinking water source protection area contains leaking underground storage tanks, runoff…", "sew": { "s": "Water, sewer and electric are run together by the elected Board of Public Affairs from the Light, Water and Sewer office at 318 East Main Street; the board charges a $100 residential sewer deposit per meter. The wastewater plant name, capacity and receiving stream are not published in any reachable source.", "st": "Not documented in available sources." }, "fun": [ "Blanchester's drinking water comes from three small streams and impoundments — Whitacre Run, Stonelick Creek and the West Fork of the East Fork Little Miami River — rather than one dominant reservoir.", "The village has been treating its own water continuously since 1924.", "Its backup is a chain of other people's water: three emergency taps into the private Western Water Company, which itself draws on wells in the Little Miami River aquifer, Brown County Rural Water from the Ohio River…", "In 2025 the village sampled for 52 different contaminants; most were never detected, and its only violation on federal record dates to October 2017." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchester,_Ohio", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH1400111/JSON" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf", "https://www.blanvillage.com/public-affairs" ], "rates": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/public-affairs", "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/public-affairs", "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.blanvillage.com/_files/ugd/06e39b_8cadb7786e374d3c8cab55568232ac82.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH1400111/JSON" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "45107", "share": 0.4502, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH1400111.jpg", "caption": "Main and Broadway Streets in Blanchester, Ohio", "credit": "Aesopposea", "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1400111/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH1400111.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), \"Blanchester Village · OH1400111\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1400111/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }