{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH3801512", "name": "Walnut Creek Water Co.", "county": "Holmes", "population": 1270, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 3, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH3801512" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "2010", "Holmes County Commissioners approved agreements to complete improvements to the adjacent, county-run Walnut Creek wastewater treatment plant serving the community. Not independently reconfirmed this…" ], [ "2011", "Expanded and upgraded Walnut Creek wastewater treatment plant reportedly dedicated Nov. 3; a $5.3 million project said to have raised capacity from 90,000 to 400,000 gallons/day. The original…" ], [ "2023", "Walnut Creek Water Company reportedly received an Ohio BUILDS Water Infrastructure Grant (Round 4) to install about 20,000 linear feet of new waterline and a 100,000-gallon elevated storage tank. Not…" ] ], "treat": "Groundwater from 3 wells; the specific treatment train (disinfection method, iron/hardness treatment, etc.) is not confirmed in sources reviewed. EPA's own contact-of-record for this system is an individual, Kermit Miller (P.O. Box 51, Walnut Creek, OH 44687), per EPA SDWIS data compiled by…", "press": "Not published; no pressure or pressure-zone data found in sources reviewed.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "An Ohio EPA statewide sewer/water rate survey reportedly lists sample-bill figures for Walnut Creek Water Company (values cited around $432-$606 at various usage tiers), but the…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.57", "ppb…", "15 (action…", "2021-202…", "Below the federal action level -- no violation. Per EPA Lead and Copper Rule sampling compiled by mytapwater.org from…" ], [ "Copper", "1.6", "mg/L", "1.3 (action…", "1993", "Two mid-1993 samples (S1, S2) exceeded the copper action level per EPA records. This is 30+-year-old data with no…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Cherry Ridge water line extension", 164533.81, "2024", "completed", "Listed in Holmes County Commissioners' Aug. 2024 meeting minutes as an FDCC-coded project payment (project #00704-E2014). Could not be re-fetched this session…" ], [ "Waterline extension and 100,000-gallon elevated tank", null, "2023", "under construction", "Reportedly funded via an Ohio BUILDS Round 4 grant; ~20,000 linear feet of new waterline plus a new elevated tank. Current completion status not reconfirmed…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Regional interconnection option for a neighboring system", null, "2026", "proposed", "Holmes County Commissioners minutes reportedly list connecting to Walnut Creek Water Company (requiring a new booster station and water tower) as one option…" ] ], "stress": "EPA compliance history (109 records per mytapwater.org's compilation of EPA SDWIS/ECHO data) is overwhelmingly routine 1990s-2000s monitoring/reporting paperwork, now resolved, plus a Total Coliform Rule MCL violation in Oct-Nov 2012 (archived/resolved). More notably, three Consumer Confidence Report \"Inadequate Reporting\" violations --…", "sew": { "s": "Wastewater for the Walnut Creek area is reportedly treated at a separate, Holmes County-operated wastewater treatment plant (said to have been expanded in 2011 to 400,000 gpd capacity) -- a distinct entity from Walnut Creek Water Co., which supplies only drinking water. The primary source for the 2011 expansion details is now a dead link…", "st": "Not detailed in sources reviewed." }, "fun": [ "Walnut Creek Water Co. is not a village-run utility at all -- EPA's own records list an individual, Kermit Miller, as the water system's contact of record, serving about 1,270 people in Ohio's Amish Country tourist area.", "The system's EPA compliance file runs to 109 entries, but the large majority are routine monitoring/reporting paperwork from the 1990s and 2000s, now resolved -- current lead and copper levels are well within federal…", "Three Consumer Confidence Report filing violations, from 2018, 2020, and 2022, remain listed as \"unaddressed\" in EPA records, and no validated current CCR for the system could be located -- a real gap in what small…", "Neighboring water systems in Holmes County have reportedly studied simply buying water from Walnut Creek Water Co. rather than building their own treatment plants (unverified this session)." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/news/2011/11/10/walnut-creek-plant-officially-open/ (dead link, 404, as of this session)" ], "treatment": [ "https://mytapwater.org/pws/oh3801512/walnut-creek-water-co/holmes-oh/" ], "impurities": [ "https://mytapwater.org/pws/oh3801512/walnut-creek-water-co/holmes-oh/" ], "projects": [ "https://holmescountycommissioners.com" ], "planned": [ "https://holmescountycommissioners.com" ], "water_stress": [ "https://mytapwater.org/pws/oh3801512/walnut-creek-water-co/holmes-oh/", "https://www.tapwaterdata.com/utilities/oh/walnut-creek-water-co" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/news/2011/11/10/walnut-creek-plant-officially-open/ (dead link)" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://mytapwater.org/pws/oh3801512/walnut-creek-water-co/holmes-oh/", "https://www.tapwaterdata.com/utilities/oh/walnut-creek-water-co" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44687", "share": 1.0, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44681", "share": 0.0212, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44654", "share": 0.0031, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH3801512.jpg", "caption": "View of the Walnut Creek valley on the south side of Walnut Creek, Holmes County, Ohio", "credit": "Chris Light", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3801512/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH3801512.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), \"Walnut Creek Water Co. · OH3801512\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH3801512/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }