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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH1900512",
  "name": "Gettysburg Village",
  "county": "Darke",
  "population": 513,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 2,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH1900512"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1820s",
        "Settled in the late 1820s by settlers from Adams County, Pennsylvania."
      ],
      [
        "1842",
        "Formally platted by John Hershey; named for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Adams County, PA seat."
      ],
      [
        "1865-04-30",
        "Abraham Lincoln's funeral train passed through the village en route to Springfield, Illinois."
      ],
      [
        "1922",
        "Local businessman Ira Petersime invented the electric poultry incubator here; his company became one of the world's largest incubator manufacturers before closing in 2006."
      ],
      [
        "1980",
        "Village population peaked at about 545 before a long decline (461 at the 2023 estimate; the water system serves 513 people per EPA SDWIS)."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Not published. SDWIS lists the source only as groundwater from 2 wells with no treatment-plant detail in federal records; no CCR or engineering report was found online to confirm disinfection method.",
    "press": "Not published; no CCR, pressure-zone map, or engineering report for Gettysburg was found online.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published online; village water billing/ordinance not found in a public source.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Lead (individual tap samples, Lead &…",
        "0-0.0057",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015 mg/L…",
        "undated",
        "9 samples in EPA SDWIS LCR data, all well under the federal action level; exact sample year not given in the export."
      ],
      [
        "Total Coliform Rule",
        "3…",
        "n/a",
        "n/a",
        "1994-199…",
        "Procedural monitoring/reporting violations, not confirmed positive coliform detections."
      ],
      [
        "TTHM / HAA5 (Stage 2 Disinfectants and…",
        "4…",
        "n/a",
        "0.080 mg/L TTHM…",
        "Q4 2015…",
        "SDWIS logs these as monitoring/reporting violations, not measured MCL exceedances; no concentration values found."
      ],
      [
        "Public Notification Rule / Stage 2 DBP…",
        "3 violations…",
        "n/a",
        "n/a",
        "2019-12…",
        "Two open public-notification violations (Dec 2019, Dec 2025) and one open HAA5 monitoring violation (Q4 2025)…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Small (513-person, 218-connection) groundwater system with a long, well-documented pattern of monitoring/reporting lapses in EPA SDWIS: Total Coliform Rule violations in 1994-95, Stage 2 DBP (TTHM/HAA5) monitoring violations in Q4 2015 and Q1 2018 (all later resolved), and three still-open violations as of December 2025…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not confirmed online; no wastewater treatment plant or NPDES permit for Gettysburg Village was located. Very small Darke County villages of this size commonly run a small package plant or rely partly on septic - unconfirmed here.",
      "st": "Not published."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Gettysburg's public water system serves 513 people through just 218 service connections - about 2.4 people per hookup, typical of a small single-family village.",
      "The system's single point of contact in federal records is one person (the village administrator), who doubles as the water system's registered operator/contact - common for utilities this small.",
      "Federal compliance records for this system stretch back to 1994, giving roughly a 30-year monitoring/violation history for a village of only about 500 residents."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg,_Ohio"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH1900512/JSON"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/LCR_SAMPLE_RESULT/PWSID/OH1900512/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH1900512/JSON/rows/0:30"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH1900512/JSON/rows/0:30"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH1900512/JSON"
      ]
    }
  },
  "zips_served": [
    {
      "zip": "45328",
      "share": 0.9066,
      "dominant": true
    }
  ],
  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH1900512.jpg",
    "caption": "Houses on Main Street in Gettysburg, Ohio, the village served by this water system",
    "credit": "Nyttend",
    "license": "Public domain"
  },
  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1900512/",
  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH1900512.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), \"Gettysburg Village · OH1900512\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH1900512/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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