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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH1700112",
  "name": "Crestline Village",
  "county": "Crawford",
  "population": 4525,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1852",
        "Crestline platted as a railroad station on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (the 'Bee Line'), sited midway between Shelby and Galion."
      ],
      [
        "2002",
        "Thallium at 1.5 ug/L detected in a source water sample collected November 2, 2002 — the one chemical finding cited in the village's Source Water Assessment summary."
      ],
      [
        "2012",
        "Public Notification Rule violation opens July 1, 2012 (SDWIS violation code 71, rule 420, Tier 3, not health-based); since resolved."
      ],
      [
        "2019",
        "Second Public Notification Rule violation opens January 15, 2019 (code 72); still carried as outstanding in federal records."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Third Public Notification Rule violation opens September 19, 2024 (code 72); resolved."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "Village held an unconditional license to operate its water system; 2025 CCR published June 2026."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Three wells at 3348 Milligan Road in Ontario (Richland County) feed the Crestline Water Treatment Plant at 1245 State Route 314 North, about ten miles east of the village it serves. Raw water is aerated to oxidize iron and manganese and strip dissolved gases, held in a detention tank where chlorine…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor any village utilities page gives a distribution pressure figure or a pressure-zone map.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published. The village's utility office page sets out billing mechanics only — bills mailed by the 18th, due by 4:30 pm on the 5th, 10% penalty after that, disconnection after…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.045",
        "ppm",
        "2 ppm (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.045-0.045; erosion of natural deposits, drilling wastes, metal refineries."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "0.74",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.34-1.14; disinfectant residual."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.265",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm (MCL)",
        "2023",
        "Range 0.265-0.265; well below the MCL and below the 0.7 ppm optimal fluoridation level."
      ],
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "11.9",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 6.2-17.5; by-product of chlorination, about 15% of the MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.13",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm (Action…",
        "2024",
        "0 of 20 sample sites above the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "3.3",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb (Action…",
        "2024",
        "0 of 20 sample sites above the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Lithium (UCMR5, unregulated)",
        "24",
        "ppb",
        "no federal…",
        "2023",
        "Range 23.1-24; the only unregulated substance detected in Crestline's UCMR5 round."
      ],
      [
        "PFAS (six compounds, Ohio PFAS…",
        "not detected",
        "n/a",
        "PFOA/PFOS MCL 4…",
        "2023",
        "Sampled under Ohio EPA's statewide PFAS sampling initiative; none of the six compounds detected in finished water."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the aquifer supplying Crestline as having a moderate susceptibility to contamination, based on a thick protective clay layer over the aquifer, a production depth of more than 75 feet, and no evidence that ground water has been impacted by significant levels of human-caused chemical contaminants —…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Village-owned wastewater treatment plant on Westgate Drive, northwest of the village near Main Street, providing primary and secondary treatment. Rated capacity 0.950 MGD against a normal flow of about 0.6 MGD. The village also publishes a sewer-backup FAQ for residents.",
      "st": "Not published. No storm sewer or stormwater utility information appears on the village site."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Crestline's drinking water is neither drawn nor treated in Crestline: the village's three wells sit at 3348 Milligan Road in Ontario and its treatment plant at 1245 State Route 314 North, both in neighboring Richland…",
      "Early settlers believed the town stood on the state's watershed divide, where streams to the north drained to Lake Erie and those to the south to the Ohio River — the site was once thought to be the highest point in…",
      "Crestline was platted in 1852 as a railroad station on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati 'Bee Line', midway between Shelby and Galion, and later became a Pennsylvania Railroad division point.",
      "In its 2023 UCMR5 round the village detected exactly one unregulated substance — lithium at 24 ppb — and none of the six PFAS compounds sampled under Ohio's PFAS initiative."
    ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH1700112/JSON",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestline,_Ohio"
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        "https://crestlineoh.com/utilities/",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/general-information/",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH1700112/JSON"
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        "https://crestlineoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/utilities/"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://crestlineoh.com/utility-office/",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/fiscal-office/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://crestlineoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://crestlineoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/general-information/"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://crestlineoh.com/utilities/",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/general-information/",
        "https://crestlineoh.com/crestline-sewer-backup-faqs/"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://crestlineoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025-CCR.pdf",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestline,_Ohio"
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
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