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  "pwsid": "OH3700803",
  "name": "Murray City Village",
  "county": "Hocking",
  "population": 449,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
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    "OH0501311"
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1873",
        "Murray City was platted."
      ],
      [
        "1875",
        "John Murray Brown, the original landowner for whom the town is named, built a hotel in the area."
      ],
      [
        "1891",
        "Murray City was incorporated as a village."
      ],
      [
        "1920",
        "Population peaked (1920 census: 1,493) as a coal-mining boomtown supporting a hotel, saloons, churches, and a train depot."
      ],
      [
        "1937",
        "Major coal-mine closures triggered a steep economic and population decline, to 341 residents by the 2020 census."
      ],
      [
        "2019-2022",
        "Three 'Other' (SDWIS rule 420, public-notification/CCR-family) violations opened (Jan. 2019, Feb. 2020, Aug. 2022) and remain listed as open in federal SDWIS as of this review; a fourth, opened Oct.…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Murray City purchases finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than treating its own (confirmed: Ohio EPA SDWIS lists the village's primary source code as 'GWP' = purchased groundwater, consistent with the buried-valley aquifer sourcing given in the input). Federal…",
    "press": "Not published. Federal SDWIS's facility table is empty for this PWSID and no CCR was located.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No published rate schedule was found online for this ~449-person Hocking County village; it does not appear to maintain an independent municipal website.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Not established from public sources for Murray City's actual drinking-water supply (buried-valley aquifer purchased via Burr Oak Regional Water District). The village sits along Snow Fork, a tributary of Monday Creek -- a Hocking/Perry County watershed also historically affected by acid mine drainage from coal mining -- but this is a…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not determined from available public sources whether Murray City has a municipal sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.",
      "st": "Not determined from available public sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Murray City was platted in 1873 and named for landowner John Murray Brown, who built a hotel there in 1875; it was incorporated in 1891.",
      "At its early-20th-century peak (1920 census: 1,493 residents) it supported a hotel, saloons, churches, and a train depot as a coal-mining boomtown; major mine closures in 1937 triggered a steep decline, to 341 residents…",
      "Like nearby Trimble, Murray City buys its drinking water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District rather than operating its own treatment plant."
    ],
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      ],
      "treatment": [
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      ],
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      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_City,_Ohio"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_City,_Ohio"
      ]
    }
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      "share": 0.9169,
      "dominant": true
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH3700803.jpg",
    "caption": "1965 aerial view of Murray City, Ohio (NARA), the town served by this Hocking River buried-valley aquifer well system",
    "credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided",
    "license": "Public domain"
  },
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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), \"Murray City Village · OH3700803\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3700803/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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