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  "pwsid": "OH4101712",
  "name": "Mount Pleasant",
  "county": "Jefferson",
  "population": 450,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (1 wells)",
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  "intakes": [],
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  "aquifer": "",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1803",
        "Settled by Quaker families (including Nathan Updegraff); became a nationally significant center of early Ohio abolitionism."
      ],
      [
        "1817",
        "Quaker Charles Osborn founded The Philanthropist in Mount Pleasant, considered the first U.S. newspaper to advocate abolition of slavery."
      ],
      [
        "1821",
        "Benjamin Lundy began publishing The Genius of Universal Emancipation in Mount Pleasant."
      ],
      [
        "1850",
        "Village population reached its historical peak of 755 residents."
      ],
      [
        "2020",
        "Federal SDWIS records a health-based Treatment Technique violation under the Total Coliform Rule (compliance period roughly June-Aug. 2020, resolved by May-Aug. 2021), indicating a coliform-positive…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Mount Pleasant treats its own water from a single groundwater well (Ohio EPA SDWIS); systems this size typically chlorinate, but the specific treatment train was not confirmed via a published CCR. Federal compliance records add a documented health-based Treatment Technique violation under the Total…",
    "press": "Not published. Federal SDWIS's facility table is empty for this PWSID and no CCR was located.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule, ordinance, or water-department contact information was found published online for this small Jefferson County community.",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Not established from public sources; no drought, aquifer-depletion, or capacity data specific to Mount Pleasant's single-well system was found. Small-system capacity risk is plausible given the documented 2020 Total Coliform Rule Treatment Technique violation, but nothing further is confirmed.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not determined from available public sources whether Mount Pleasant has a municipal sanitary sewer or relies on septic systems.",
      "st": "Not determined from available public sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Mount Pleasant, settled in 1803, was a nationally significant Quaker settlement and hub of early Ohio abolitionism.",
      "In 1817, Charles Osborn founded The Philanthropist there -- reputed to be the first U.S. newspaper advocating abolition of slavery; Benjamin Lundy began publishing The Genius of Universal Emancipation in the village in…",
      "No source on the modern water utility's rates or treatment plant could be retrieved beyond federal SDWIS compliance records, which do show a 2020 coliform-related Treatment Technique violation."
    ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/facility/pwsid/OH4101712/JSON"
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      ],
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      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_Ohio"
      ]
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH4101712.jpg",
    "caption": "Mount Pleasant Historic Site, Jefferson County, Ohio, the town served by this well-water system",
    "credit": "Bwsmith84 (talk)",
    "license": "CC BY 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), \"Mount Pleasant · OH4101712\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4101712/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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