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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH3700103",
  "name": "Carbon Hill Water Association",
  "county": "Hocking",
  "population": 910,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH3700103",
    "OH0501311"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1873",
        "Carbon Hill established as a Hocking County coal-mining town; the community's name comes directly from the coal mined there."
      ],
      [
        "1879",
        "Post office opened in Carbon Hill."
      ],
      [
        "2006",
        "Carbon Hill Water Association's own groundwater source well (facility P01) was deactivated on 10/31/2006, per EPA SDWIS facility records."
      ],
      [
        "present",
        "Carbon Hill Water Association now buys finished water from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own; EPA SDWIS records the association's own treatment entry explicitly as 'NO…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Carbon Hill Water Association performs no treatment of its own — EPA records list its facility treatment code as 'NO TREATMENT.' It purchases already-treated water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District (a groundwater system based in Millfield, Ohio) via an active interconnection, and…",
    "press": "Not published — no pressure data found in available EPA SDWIS records, and no independent Carbon Hill Water Association website was found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not published — no independent website or published rate schedule was found for this small rural water association; searches for local rate ordinances or news coverage turned up…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile, Lead and Copper…",
        "0.00095",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015",
        "2019-202…",
        "Well below the EPA action level; most recent 2024-25 sampling returned non-detect (0 mg/L)."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "No health-based violations on record; SDWIS shows only administrative monitoring/reporting violations (April 2013, December 2018, November 2019, July 2025). As a wholesale customer with no source of its own since 2006, Carbon Hill's water security depends entirely on Burr Oak Regional Water District's groundwater wells and the small…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not published — no information found on a centralized sanitary sewer system for Carbon Hill; small unincorporated Hocking County communities in this area commonly rely on individual home septic systems, but this was not confirmed for Carbon Hill specifically.",
      "st": "Not published."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Carbon Hill's 2020 census population was just 178 — smaller than the 910 people the water association reports serving, meaning it also supplies water to surrounding rural Hocking County homes outside the village itself…",
      "The town's name is a fossil-fuel reference: it grew up around 19th-century coal mining, and 'carbon' was literally the coal being dug from the hill.",
      "Carbon Hill hasn't drawn its own water since 2006, when EPA records show its last active source well was deactivated; it now exists purely to move Burr Oak Regional Water District's treated water through local pipes."
    ],
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      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Hill,_Ohio",
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      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH3700103/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH3700103/JSON"
      ],
      "impurities": [
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      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH3700103/JSON"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH3700103/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH3700103/JSON"
      ]
    }
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      "zip": "43111",
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      "dominant": true
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  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3700103/",
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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), \"Carbon Hill Water Association · OH3700103\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3700103/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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