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  "name": "New Athens",
  "county": "Harrison",
  "population": 367,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Ohio River valley aquifer (wells)",
  "bodies": [
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1817/1818",
        "New Athens was platted in 1817; a post office has operated there since 1818. The village was home to Franklin College, founded in 1818 by abolitionist John Walker and operating for over 100 years…"
      ],
      [
        "2006-2007",
        "EPA facility records show New Athens operated its own water treatment plant (facility type TP) until it was deactivated between October 2006 and February 2007, after which the village began…"
      ],
      [
        "1995-2000",
        "New Athens logged three monitoring/reporting violations (compliance periods starting 1995, 1996, and 1999), all resolved by 2000, per EPA SDWIS."
      ],
      [
        "2021-present",
        "New Athens has an open, unresolved Public Notification Rule ('Other', rule 420) violation dating to October 26, 2021, and a second, separate one dating to December 18, 2024 — neither shows a…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "New Athens buys finished groundwater from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 (PWSID OH0700412), a local-government-owned groundwater system serving roughly 26,800 people across the county, per EPA SDWIS. New Athens itself previously ran its own treatment plant, deactivated around 2006-2007 (see…",
    "press": "Not published anywhere found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule, ordinance, or council minutes could be located for New Athens or for its wholesale supplier, Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3. The county government's own website…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "New Athens depends entirely on purchased water from Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3. EPA SDWIS records show New Athens' own system currently carries two open, unresolved 'Other'/Public Notification Rule violations (since Oct. 26, 2021 and Dec. 18, 2024), and its wholesale supplier separately carries its own open Public Notification Rule…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not documented on any source located.",
      "st": "Not documented on any source located."
    },
    "fun": [
      "New Athens was home to Franklin College, one of Ohio's early 19th-century institutions of higher learning, founded in 1818 by abolitionist John Walker and operating for over 100 years until it closed in 1919.",
      "EPA infrastructure records show the village's water system includes a 100,000-gallon storage tank."
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH3401103/JSON"
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    "url": "/photos/OH3401103.jpg",
    "caption": "Franklin Museum (former Franklin College building) in New Athens, Ohio",
    "credit": "Bwsmith84 (talk)",
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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), \"New Athens · OH3401103\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3401103/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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