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  "pwsid": "OH3902611",
  "name": "New London Village",
  "county": "Huron",
  "population": 3226,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Buck Creek, impounded in New London's upground reservoir",
  "bodies": [
    "Buck Creek (Vermilion River tributary)",
    "New London Reservoir"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "London Rese",
    "London Buck Creek"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "New London's Plant 2 pumps Buck Creek water into its ~220-acre upground reservoir (1.4 billion gal capacity) for treatment; this reservoir also supplies Rural Lorain County Water Authority and, through it, NORW's Southeast District.",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf",
    "https://www.newlondonoh.com/water_sewer/ccr2025.php",
    "https://www.norw.org/where-your-water-comes"
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "New London Water Treatment Plant (Plant 2)",
      "a": "City of New London, Huron County, OH (exact street address for plant not confirmed by public sources found)",
      "la": 41.0847,
      "lo": -82.399,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "New London Reservoir (upground reservoir) on Buck Creek, a tributary of the Vermilion River",
      "src": "New London's upground reservoir, filled by pumping from Buck Creek, just outside the Village of New London",
      "cls": "reservoir",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Buck Creek pump intake",
          "wb": "Buck Creek (a tributary of the Vermilion River, near New London, Huron County — not the Clark County Buck Creek below C.J. Brown Reservoir)",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Pump station on Buck Creek just outside the Village of New London that fills the village's upground reservoir",
          "la": 41.0847,
          "lo": -82.399,
          "pt": "approximate"
        },
        {
          "n": "New London upground reservoir intake",
          "wb": "New London Reservoir (an upground, off-stream storage reservoir)",
          "role": "storage",
          "src": "Plant intake on the upground reservoir that holds water pumped from Buck Creek, adjacent to Plant 2, which is the water actually drawn into treatment",
          "la": 41.0847,
          "lo": -82.399,
          "pt": "approximate"
        }
      ]
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1996",
        "The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments established the national Source Water Assessment and Protection Program, under which Ohio EPA later mapped New London's Buck Creek drinking water protection…"
      ],
      [
        "undated…",
        "Ohio EPA's source water assessment describes the system as serving approximately 4,300 people through Plant #1 and 7,700 through Plant #2, with a treatment capacity of about 1,300,000 gallons per day…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "CCR reports average daily production of 361,000 gallons for the village's own approximately 1,360 customers, and a distribution system with no lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "Council passed Ordinance 2025-14 on April 28, 2025 as an emergency measure, amending Codified Ordinance sections 921.10 and 925.07 to raise retail water and sewer rates and to reset the contract…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Water is pumped from Buck Creek, a branch of the Vermilion River, into the New London Reservoir -- 220 surface acres and 1.4 billion gallons when full -- and then filtered (turbidity is the CCR's stated filtration-performance indicator), fluoridated and chlorinated before distribution. The village…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the 2024 CCR, the village's water/sewer pages, nor Ordinance 2025-14 states an average service pressure or describes pressure zones.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 4.81,
      "n": "Ordinance 2025-14, passed April 28, 2025 (emergency; prior figures shown struck through in the ordinance). Water inside the village limits: $24.70 per month minimum covering the…",
      "m": 34.32
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "62.7",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 80",
        "2024",
        "Range of detections 40.2-83.3 ppb; disinfection by-product. Individual results reached above 80 ppb but the CCR reports…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "26",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 60",
        "2024",
        "Range 18.1-32.60 ppb; disinfection by-product. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Total Chlorine",
        "1.41",
        "ppm",
        "MRDL 4",
        "2024",
        "Range 1.20-1.63 ppm; residual disinfectant. Omitted from the earlier draft."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.04",
        "ppm",
        "MCL 4",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.80-1.17 ppm; naturally occurring plus water additive."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.61",
        "ppm",
        "MCL 10",
        "2024",
        "Range ND-0.61 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.033",
        "ppm",
        "MCL 2",
        "2024",
        "Single result, no range reported. Omitted from the earlier draft."
      ],
      [
        "Cyanide",
        "1",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 200",
        "2024",
        "Single result, no range reported. Omitted from the earlier draft."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0.012",
        "ug/L (as…",
        "AL 15 ppb",
        "2024",
        "0 of 10 samples above the action level, sampled June-September. The CCR prints the 90th-percentile value as .012 ug/L…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.012",
        "mg/L",
        "AL 1.3 ppm",
        "2024",
        "0 of 10 samples above the action level, sampled June-September."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity",
        "0.35",
        "NTU…",
        "TT: 0.3 NTU in…",
        "2024",
        "Lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting the turbidity limit was 99.9%; no violation."
      ]
    ],
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    "plan": [],
    "stress": "The supply is an impounded upground reservoir filled by pumping from Buck Creek, so it depends on pumping capacity and creek flow rather than on a direct river withdrawal, and 1.4 billion gallons of storage gives it a substantial drought buffer. The plant carries far more than village demand: Ohio EPA's source water assessment puts…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The Village of New London operates its own sanitary sewer and wastewater treatment service, billed under Codified Ordinance section 925.07 as amended by Ordinance 2025-14 (\"All users discharging waste to the sewage collection system shall be billed for wastewater treatment service... There shall be no free service\"). The plant name…",
      "st": "Not documented. No stormwater utility, fee, or drainage program appears in the village's published ordinances, department pages or fee schedules."
    },
    "fun": [
      "New London does not drink straight from Buck Creek: it pumps creek water into an artificial 220-acre \"upground\" reservoir holding 1.4 billion gallons, and treats out of the reservoir instead of out of the stream.",
      "A village with about 1,360 water customers is a regional wholesaler. Ordinance 2025-14 sets contract rates for two outside buyers -- Rural Lorain County Water Authority and Northern Ohio Rural Water -- at $2.39 to $2.58…",
      "The 2024 service line inventory found zero lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or unknown-material service lines anywhere in the distribution system, determined from historic records and visual inspections."
    ],
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      "history": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf"
      ],
      "treatment": [
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      ],
      "pressure": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/government/ordinances_resolutions.php"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/departments/water_sewer/index.php"
      ],
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        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Departments/WaterSewer/Plant%201%20CCR%202024PDF.pdf",
        "https://www.newlondonoh.com/Documents/Government/Ordinances%20and%20Resolutions/2025%20Ordinances/ord%2025%2014.pdf",
        "https://www.norw.org/where-your-water-comes"
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