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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH4102712",
  "name": "Tiltonsville",
  "county": "Jefferson",
  "population": 1372,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 2,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH4102712"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1796",
        "John Tilton purchases roughly 900 acres at a federal land auction in Pittsburgh (Nov. 25, 1796, for $3,623.76) that would become the village."
      ],
      [
        "1806",
        "Tilton lays out the village along the Ohio River in Jefferson County."
      ],
      [
        "1852",
        "Post office opens as 'Tiltonville'."
      ],
      [
        "1875",
        "Post office/village name changes to 'Tiltonsville'."
      ],
      [
        "unknown",
        "No published date found for when the village's two-well municipal water system was constructed or last upgraded; the village's water-department website was unreachable during this review."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Tiltonsville treats its own water drawing from 2 groundwater wells, consistent with a typical small Ohio groundwater system, but no CCR or plant description could be located this session (the village water-department site did not load).",
    "press": "Not published — no CCR or engineering document for OH4102712 was found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "No system-specific water-stress findings located. General regional context: Jefferson County Ohio River valley communities have historically faced groundwater contamination concerns tied to legacy steel/coal industry and river-adjacent aquifers, but nothing PWSID-specific was confirmed.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not determined this session — no source located identifying Tiltonsville's wastewater treatment plant, capacity, receiving stream, or any consent decree.",
      "st": "Not determined this session; no flooding or stormwater information found, though the village's low-lying Ohio River location makes river flooding plausible."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Tiltonsville sits on land purchased in 1796 by John Tilton, for whom the village is named.",
      "The village is home to Hodgen's Cemetery Mound, a burial mound built by the prehistoric Adena culture.",
      "Tiltonsville is referenced in poet James Wright's poem 'Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,' about the neighboring Ohio River town.",
      "Population peaked around 2,360 in 1940 and has declined by nearly half since, to about 1,259 in 2020 — typical of Ohio River valley steel-belt towns."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiltonsville,_Ohio"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiltonsville,_Ohio"
      ]
    }
  },
  "zips_served": [
    {
      "zip": "43963",
      "share": 1.0,
      "dominant": true
    }
  ],
  "photo": null,
  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4102712/",
  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH4102712.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), \"Tiltonsville · OH4102712\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4102712/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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}