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  "name": "Pickerington City",
  "county": "Fairfield",
  "population": 19141,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "local buried-valley aquifer (wells near Diley Road)",
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  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 5,
  "aquifer": "local wells (buried-valley aquifer, Diley Rd well field, Fairfield Co.)",
  "notes": "Five wells at the water plant site west of Diley Road; CCR references an aquifer name that did not clearly resolve in available text extraction, kept as generic buried-valley/local wells designation. City also has emergency interconnects with Fairfield County Utilities, unused in normal operation.",
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      "n": "Pickerington City Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "near Diley Road, Pickerington, Fairfield County, OH 43147",
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      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "local buried-valley aquifer",
      "src": "Five active wells drawing from the local buried-valley aquifer near Diley Road",
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        {
          "n": "Diley Road well field",
          "wb": "Local buried-valley (sand-and-gravel) aquifer, Fairfield County",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "All 5 active city wells cluster near Diley Road adjacent to the treatment plant, drawing from the local buried-valley aquifer. (5 wells)",
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          "pt": "plant",
          "sh": 100,
          "wells": [
            "Well 2",
            "Well 6",
            "Well 7",
            "Well 8",
            "Well 9"
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1815",
        "Abraham Pickering has the town surveyed and laid out on September 15, 1815, naming it Jacksonville after Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans; by 1820 it had 49 residents."
      ],
      [
        "1827",
        "Residents petition the Ohio legislature to rename the town Pickerington in Pickering's honor."
      ],
      [
        "1881",
        "Pickerington incorporated as a village."
      ],
      [
        "1988",
        "Pickerington's wastewater treatment plant constructed."
      ],
      [
        "1991",
        "Pickerington certified as a city."
      ],
      [
        "2009",
        "Wastewater treatment plant last upgraded."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Five wells at the water plant site west of Diley Road draw from the Newark River buried-valley aquifer. The city treats the water at a reverse-osmosis plant that came online in 2011: iron and manganese are removed by aeration, detention and filtration, hardness is reduced by membrane treatment, and…",
    "press": "Not published. No CCR, city budget document or Ohio EPA record reviewed states a system psi figure or maps pressure zones.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 5.07,
      "n": "City of Pickerington utility billing schedule (current as of 2026). Water: $4.50 monthly service charge plus $5.07 per 1,000 gallons through 12,000 gallons in a month, and $7.30…",
      "m": 24.78
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Chlorine",
        "1.11",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.90-1.23 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "11.2",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Range 10.4-11.2 ppb; about 14% of the standard."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "3.4",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Range 0-3.4 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.92",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.87-0.97 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.33",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2024",
        "From the 2024 CCR; not re-reported in 2025."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.027",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2023",
        "Reported in the 2024 CCR under reduced monitoring."
      ],
      [
        "Gross alpha (excluding radon and…",
        "4.2",
        "pCi/L",
        "15",
        "2020",
        "Reported in the 2024 CCR; radiologicals are on a reduced monitoring cycle."
      ],
      [
        "Combined Radium 226/228",
        "1.1",
        "pCi/L",
        "5",
        "2020",
        "Reported in the 2024 CCR."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0.6",
        "ppb",
        "15 (AL)",
        "2024",
        "Zero of 30 samples above the action level; carried forward unchanged in the 2025 CCR. The city reports no lead…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.327",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (AL)",
        "2024",
        "Zero of 30 samples above the action level; carried forward in the 2025 CCR."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Columbus interconnect",
        150000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Construction funded in the adopted FY2026 budget, Water Department, Fund 509. Would add a City of Columbus connection alongside the four existing Fairfield…"
      ],
      [
        "Water Plant Capacity Plan / Improvement (Phase II design)",
        600000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "FY2026 budget line 509.503.55692; $900,000 was budgeted for the same line in 2025. Design only — no construction cost is published."
      ],
      [
        "Sanitary sewer lining",
        200000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Construction funded in the FY2026 budget, Sewer Department, Fund 511."
      ],
      [
        "Tertiary disc filter replacement at the wastewater plant",
        75000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Design funded in the FY2026 budget, Fund 511. Replaces the cloth-media disk filters in the plant's tertiary stage."
      ],
      [
        "Sycamore Creek bank stabilization",
        50000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Design/construction funded in the FY2026 budget, Stormwater Fund 513. Sycamore Creek is also the wastewater plant's receiving stream."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Water plant capacity expansion (construction phase following the 2025-2026 design work)",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "Implied by two consecutive years of design funding ($900,000 in 2025, $600,000 for Phase II in 2026) under the 'Water Plant Capacity Plan/Improvement' line. No…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "The city's CCRs rate the Newark River aquifer's susceptibility to contamination as moderate — the aquifer is sensitive and there are several potential contaminant sources inside the wellhead protection zone, which the Ohio EPA-approved Wellhead Protection Plan is meant to manage. The sharper pressure is capacity, not quality: the water…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City-owned Pickerington WWTP at 525 Hill Road South, built in 1988 and last upgraded in 2009, with an average design flow of 3.2 MGD; recent annual median flows run about 2.5 MGD. It discharges to Sycamore Creek at river mile 4.5 (Great Miami-independent; Scioto basin, HUC 05060001-17-04). Treatment train: influent pumping, bar screen…",
      "st": "Ohio EPA states the City of Pickerington has 100% separate sewers — no combined sewers. The city runs its own storm water utility, billed at $4.50 a month for residential customers, with an Engineering Department storm water management program. The FY2026…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Pickerington was laid out in 1815 under the name Jacksonville, honoring Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans; the townspeople petitioned in 1827 to rename it after the man who founded it, Abraham Pickering.",
      "Pickerington treats its well water with reverse osmosis — membrane treatment more associated with seawater than with central Ohio groundwater — and the salty reject stream is piped over to the sewage plant and blended…",
      "Water and sewer rates rise 3% automatically every April 1, so bills climb without a council vote.",
      "The four 'emergency' interconnects with Fairfield County Utilities are not decorative: in August 2025 the city pulled 512,000 gallons through one of them over four days."
    ],
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      "history": [
        "https://www.themunicipal.com/2017/03/abraham-pickering-pickerington-ohio/",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickerington,_Ohio",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/4PB00017.fs.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2025.pdf"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/4PB00017.fs.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2025.pdf",
        "https://www.cityscenecolumbus.com/communities/pickerington/pickerington-water-filtration-system-gets-an-upgrade/",
        "https://www.wwdmag.com/home/news/10907501/pickerington-ohio-selects-us-filter-for-water-treatment-services"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/departments/utility-billing/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2025.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2024.pdf"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/2026-City-Budget.pdf"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/2026-City-Budget.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2025.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2024.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/2026-City-Budget.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/4PB00017.fs.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/2026-City-Budget.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/departments/utility-billing/"
      ],
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        "https://www.themunicipal.com/2017/03/abraham-pickering-pickerington-ohio/",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/4PB00017.fs.pdf",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/departments/utility-billing/",
        "https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/cdn/CCR-Report-2025.pdf"
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