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  "pwsid": "OH2400012",
  "name": "Village of Bloomingburg",
  "county": "Fayette",
  "population": 878,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
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  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1815",
        "Village laid out; local tradition holds it was named for the abundant flower gardens kept by residents (per Wikipedia)."
      ],
      [
        "1819",
        "Village post office established."
      ],
      [
        "19th century",
        "Community served as a documented Underground Railroad stop, per Wikipedia."
      ],
      [
        "present",
        "Village operates its own groundwater treatment plant drawing on 3 active wells (Well 1, 2, 3), confirmed via EPA SDWIS facility and treatment records."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Bloomingburg treats its own groundwater from 3 active village wells (confirmed via SDWIS WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY) using spray aeration and slat-tray aeration (to strip dissolved gases/iron), a reaction/detention step, rapid sand filtration, and pre-chlorination via hypochlorination for disinfection…",
    "press": "No published service-pressure (psi) figure found in EPA records, a CCR, or elsewhere in this pass. Village sits at approximately 994 ft elevation (confirmed via Wikipedia) and is…",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No current residential water rate schedule was found published online for the Village of Bloomingburg in this pass; the village does not appear to maintain an accessible utility…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile, Lead and Copper…",
        "0.0017",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015",
        "2025",
        "Most recent monitoring round (Jan 1-Dec 31, 2025) per EPA SDWIS LCR_SAMPLE/LCR_SAMPLE_RESULT tables; well below the EPA…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "No health-based violations on record. SDWIS shows only administrative/public-notification violations; one (code 71, contaminant 7000) opened July 1, 2025 remains open with no return-to-compliance date recorded as of this review (Sept. 2026) -- confirmed directly against the EPA VIOLATION table. Bloomingburg relies entirely on its own 3…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "No wastewater/sanitary sewer provider or treatment-plant details found; EPA SDWIS covers drinking water only and no other source located in this pass documents Bloomingburg's sewer system.",
      "st": "Not published; no source located."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Bloomingburg's own water plant uses old-school 'slat-tray aeration' -- cascading water over open slat trays to let iron and gases escape before filtration -- still used at this small Ohio system per EPA SDWIS treatment…",
      "The village was a documented Underground Railroad stop in the 19th century, long before it had any piped water system.",
      "Unlike wholesale-customer systems, Bloomingburg is fully self-supplied: it draws, treats (its own plant), and distributes groundwater from 3 of its own wells with no purchased backup."
    ],
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      ],
      "pressure": [
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      "impurities": [
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      ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH2400012/JSON"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH2400012/JSON",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomingburg,_Ohio"
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      "dominant": true
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    "url": "/photos/OH2400012.jpg",
    "caption": "Water tower in Bloomingburg, Ohio, serving the village's groundwater well system",
    "credit": "Aesopposea",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0"
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
  "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Village of Bloomingburg · OH2400012\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2400012/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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