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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH4100412",
  "name": "Brilliant Water and Sewer",
  "county": "Jefferson",
  "population": 2000,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH4100412"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1819",
        "Land laid out by Virginia statesman Philip Doddridge as \"Philipsburgh.\""
      ],
      [
        "1880",
        "Renamed Brilliant after the Brilliant Glass Company built a factory at the adjoining La Grange settlement."
      ],
      [
        "1993",
        "Village formally disincorporated (November 24), becoming an unincorporated community; the water/sewer utility is a legally separate special district, not a village department, per Ohio Auditor of…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Ohio EPA cited the water system for a health-based treatment-technique violation opening 10/17/2024, returned to compliance 2/3/2025 (SDWIS/EPA federal records)."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Now sourced (previously unfound): the district draws from wells first developed in the 1920s (Well No. 1, 1927; Well No. 2, 1945) plus a third well added under a ~2015-2017 capacity project. Raw water receives pre-oxidation with sodium hypochlorite, filtration through three vertical pressure…",
    "press": "Not published; no pressure or pressure-zone figures found in any source reached this session.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No published residential rate schedule for Brilliant Water & Sewer District specifically was found. (A Jefferson County Water and Sewer District rate schedule was found in search…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Treatment technique violation",
        "N/A",
        "violation",
        "N/A",
        "2024-202…",
        "Health-based TT violation opened 10/17/2024, return-to-compliance 2/3/2025, per EPA SDWIS federal records; secondary…"
      ],
      [
        "Monitoring/reporting violations",
        "N/A",
        "violation",
        "N/A",
        "2018-202…",
        "Multiple non-health-based monitoring & reporting violations recurring since 2018, most recently opened 7/2/2025, per…"
      ],
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "23 (avg) / 32.8…",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2012-201…",
        "Historical range from EPA SDWIS/UCMR5-derived summary (secondary source, older data); added this session, lower…"
      ],
      [
        "Copper",
        "247 (avg) / 684…",
        "ppb",
        "1300",
        "2012-201…",
        "Historical range, secondary source (SDWIS/UCMR5 summary)."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "1180 (avg) /…",
        "ppb",
        "10000",
        "2012-201…",
        "Historical range, secondary source."
      ],
      [
        "HAA5",
        "7.23 (avg) /…",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2012-201…",
        "Historical range, secondary source."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "78.1 (avg) /…",
        "ppb",
        "2000",
        "2012-201…",
        "Historical range, secondary source."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Well and filtration-plant capacity upgrade (3rd well + 3 pressure filters)",
        3600000,
        "2015-2017",
        "completed",
        "Raised finished-water capacity from ~0.59 MGD to 1.08 MGD (750 gpm); iron/manganese now non-detect in finished water, per Westech Water case study."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Small groundwater system (3 wells, ~2,000 population, roughly 560-766 connections across sources) with a recent history of recurring EPA monitoring/reporting violations and one 2024 health-based treatment-technique violation, suggesting operational/compliance strain rather than raw-supply shortage. The district's own audited financials…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The utility is legally the \"Brilliant Water and Sewer District,\" a body corporate and politic (not a village department) governed by a 5-member Board of Trustees elected by water customers, per its Ohio Auditor of State-filed regular audit (FY2021-2022). It provides both water and sewer service, but the wastewater treatment plant's own…",
      "st": "Not published in sources reached this session."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Brilliant's original name was \"Philipsburgh,\" laid out in 1819 by Virginia statesman Philip Doddridge.",
      "The village took its current name in 1880 from the Brilliant Glass Company, whose factory anchored the adjoining La Grange settlement.",
      "Although the Village of Brilliant formally disincorporated in 1993, the water and sewer utility is not a village department at all — it is a separate 'body corporate and politic,' the Brilliant Water & Sewer District…",
      "A 2015-2017, roughly $3.6 million capacity project nearly doubled the district's treated-water capacity (0.59 to 1.08 MGD) by adding a third well and three pressure filters coated with manganese-dioxide media."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant,_Ohio",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/AuditSearch/Reports/2024/Brilliant_Water_&_Sewer_District_2022_2021_Jefferson_FINAL.pdf",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4100412/JSON"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://www.westechwater.com/case-studies/water-and-sewer-district-increases-capacity"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4100412/JSON",
        "https://purewaterguys.com/blogs/water-quality-reports/brilliant-oh-water-quality-report-2026"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://www.westechwater.com/case-studies/water-and-sewer-district-increases-capacity"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4100412/JSON",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/AuditSearch/Reports/2024/Brilliant_Water_&_Sewer_District_2022_2021_Jefferson_FINAL.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/AuditSearch/Reports/2024/Brilliant_Water_&_Sewer_District_2022_2021_Jefferson_FINAL.pdf"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant,_Ohio",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/AuditSearch/Reports/2024/Brilliant_Water_&_Sewer_District_2022_2021_Jefferson_FINAL.pdf",
        "https://www.westechwater.com/case-studies/water-and-sewer-district-increases-capacity"
      ]
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH4100412.jpg",
    "caption": "Welcome sign for Brilliant, Ohio, in Jefferson County",
    "credit": "Jmiller wiki",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0"
  },
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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), \"Brilliant Water and Sewer · OH4100412\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4100412/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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