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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH3401403",
  "name": "Tri-county Water Authority",
  "county": "Harrison",
  "population": 2370,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Ohio River valley aquifer (wells)",
  "bodies": [
    "Ohio River (via alluvial aquifer)"
  ],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "Ohio River valley alluvial aquifer (local wells)",
  "notes": "Buys from two groundwater suppliers: Belmont Co. SD3 (wells near Bellaire) and Martins Ferry (8 wells between the Ohio River and SR7); Martins Ferry also keeps an Ohio River emergency backup via Bridgeport. Could not confirm which supplier provides the majority share.",
  "urls": [
    "https://belmontcountywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drinking-Water-Source-Protection-Plan-2025.pdf",
    "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/"
  ],
  "chain": [
    "OH3401403",
    "OH0700412"
  ],
  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Purchased blend: Martins Ferry wellfield + Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3 groun",
      "a": "North end of First Street, Martins Ferry, OH 43935 (Martins Ferry wellfield, one of two blended purchased sources)",
      "la": 40.0967,
      "lo": -80.7364,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Ohio River valley aquifer (groundwater)",
      "src": "Blend of two purchased groundwater supplies: Martins Ferry's 8-well field on the Ohio River valley aquifer (north end of First St., Martins Ferry) and Belmont Co. Sanitary District 3's own well system",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "k": "OH0700412#0",
      "of": "OH0700412"
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1814",
        "Harrisville platted by John Wells, Thomas Gray, Store Hutchinson and Robert Dutton on October 19, 1814 (plat filed January 9, 1815, John Wells as proprietor)."
      ],
      [
        "1997",
        "Martins Ferry, one of Tri-County's two purchased-water suppliers, completed a new water treatment plant using a traveling-bridge filter and ozonation process, drawing on an underground aquifer that…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Tri-County itself does not treat water; it purchases a blend of finished groundwater from Belmont County Sanitary Sewer District #3 (a single large radial collector well near Bellaire, drawing ~4.3-4.5 MGD from the sand-and-gravel Ohio River Buried Valley aquifer, against 6 MGD plant/source…",
    "press": "Not published.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Martins Ferry's plant (built 1997) runs at roughly 2 MGD against a design capacity of up to 5 MGD -- real headroom, confirmed on Martins Ferry's own site. By contrast, Ohio EPA's source water assessment for Belmont County Sanitary Sewer District #3 (Tri-County's other wholesale supplier, revised June 2024) rates that source's aquifer…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not confirmed this session -- no source located describing sanitary sewer arrangements for the Harrisville, Harrison County service area.",
      "st": "Not confirmed this session."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Martins Ferry, one of Tri-County's two wholesale water sources, draws not from the Ohio River directly but from an underground aquifer that flows south from northern Ohio, treated with ozone rather than only chlorine.",
      "Harrisville was the site of an 1834 petition signed by 35 local women calling on Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and demanding 'immediate enfranchisement of every human being that shall tread…",
      "Tri-County blends two independently sourced groundwater supplies from different counties -- Martins Ferry's wells in Belmont County and Belmont County Sanitary Sewer District #3's wellfield near Bellaire -- rather than…"
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisville,_Ohio",
        "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/",
        "https://belmontcountywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drinking-Water-Source-Protection-Plan-2025.pdf"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/",
        "https://belmontcountywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drinking-Water-Source-Protection-Plan-2025.pdf"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://martinsferry.org/services/water-department/",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisville,_Ohio",
        "https://belmontcountywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Drinking-Water-Source-Protection-Plan-2025.pdf"
      ]
    }
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      "zip": "43974",
      "share": 1.0,
      "dominant": true
    },
    {
      "zip": "43901",
      "share": 0.1085,
      "dominant": false
    },
    {
      "zip": "43907",
      "share": 0.0196,
      "dominant": false
    },
    {
      "zip": "43917",
      "share": 0.0185,
      "dominant": false
    },
    {
      "zip": "43950",
      "share": 0.0068,
      "dominant": false
    }
  ],
  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH3401403.jpg",
    "caption": "Post office in Harrisville, Ohio, served by a purchased groundwater blend",
    "credit": "Roseohioresident",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
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  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH3401403.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), \"Tri-county Water Authority · OH3401403\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3401403/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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