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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH5001911",
  "name": "Sebring Village",
  "county": "Mahoning",
  "population": 6058,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "river",
  "label": "Mahoning River (surface water intake)",
  "bodies": [
    "Mahoning River"
  ],
  "intakes": [
    "Sebring Mahoning River I"
  ],
  "wells": 0,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "Village-owned intake and treatment plant on the Mahoning River; no purchased water or wells reported.",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.sebringohio.org/"
  ],
  "chain": [
    "OH5001911"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1899",
        "Sebring incorporated as a village, founded by the Sebring family, pottery owners who moved from East Liverpool to build their own pottery town."
      ],
      [
        "2015",
        "Elevated lead and copper were detected in Sebring tap water in the summer, but residents were not notified until January 2016."
      ],
      [
        "2016",
        "February: Ohio EPA fired two employees over the handling of the Sebring notifications. July: three misdemeanor charges were filed against the village water plant superintendent for missing the 30-…"
      ],
      [
        "2016",
        "June: Ohio House Bill 512, a direct response to Sebring, was signed into law requiring Ohio water systems to notify residents within two days of detecting lead at the tap."
      ],
      [
        "2016",
        "December 30: last formal state enforcement action recorded against the system in EPA's compliance database."
      ],
      [
        "2021",
        "Village adopted 5% water and sewer rate increases effective that year and 5% every year thereafter, indefinitely."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Village-owned surface water plant drawing from the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County. The 2025 CCR documents filtration (turbidity reported against the 0.3 NTU / 1 NTU filtration limits, highest 2024 result 0.15 NTU with 100% of monthly samples in compliance), chlorine disinfection…",
    "press": "Not published. No distribution pressure figures appear in the village's water department pages, its 2025 CCR, or its rate ordinance materials.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 8.42,
      "n": "2026 schedule, effective January 2026 billing, a 5% increase over 2025; the village bills quarterly. Water: 2,000-gallon quarterly minimum $70.07; next 2,000 gallons $9.35 per…",
      "m": 52.05
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "66.15",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range of detections 23.1-66.15 ppb; about 83% of the MCL, the highest result relative to its limit in Sebring's table.…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "29.48",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 7.83-29.48 ppb. Disinfection byproduct."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "5.07",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.26-5.07 ppm. Fertilizer runoff, septic leaching, erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "1.68",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.4-2.1 ppm. Disinfectant residual."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.01",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Added to the water; also erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.052",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; discharge of drilling wastes and metal refineries."
      ],
      [
        "Gross alpha (excluding radon and…",
        "4.34",
        "pCi/L",
        "15 (MCL)",
        "2021",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; monitored less than annually."
      ],
      [
        "Combined radium 226/228",
        "1.56",
        "pCi/L",
        "5 (MCL)",
        "2021",
        "Erosion of natural deposits; monitored less than annually."
      ],
      [
        "Copper",
        "0.096 (90th…",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 40 samples above the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Lead",
        "0 (90th…",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2025",
        "0 of 40 samples above the 15 ppb action level - a change from the 2015-16 episode. The village is still completing its…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Water meter replacement program (Neptune meters)",
        null,
        "2025-2026",
        "under construction",
        "Village was still contacting residents who had not had meters replaced as of August 2026; unpaid meter balances must be settled at the sale of a home. No cost…"
      ],
      [
        "Lead and galvanized service line inventory (Lead and Copper Rule Revisions)",
        null,
        "2025",
        "under construction",
        "Letters mailed to owners in October 2025 in three categories - lead, galvanized, and unknown. The inventory (SLIM map) can currently only be viewed in person…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Online public service line inventory lookup",
        null,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "CCR states an online resource for the service line inventory 'will be available soon'; no date or cost published."
      ],
      [
        "Annual 5% water and sewer rate increases",
        null,
        "annual…",
        "planned",
        "Rate sheet states 5% increases yearly thereafter, indefinitely, from the 2021 adoption. Not a capital project but the village's only published forward…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA has determined the Sebring system to have high susceptibility to contamination - the standard finding for all Ohio surface water systems, because access points are widespread and travel time from a spill to the intake is short. The intake sits on the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County, upstream of the village…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Village-operated sanitary sewer, billed on the same quarterly bill as water. 2026 rates: 5,000-gallon quarterly minimum $112.41, then $7.78 per 1,000 gallons; effective January 2026, a 5% increase over 2025, with 5% yearly increases thereafter. Factories pay $31.45 per employee per quarter based on the highest number of employees.",
      "st": "Village runs a separate storm water charge: $4.50 per quarter per residence, $15.00 per quarter commercial, $22.50 per quarter industrial (2026 rate sheet)."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Sebring's drinking water is drawn from the Mahoning River in Knox Township, Columbiana County - outside both the village and its home county.",
      "Sebring's 2016 lead crisis produced a statewide law: Ohio House Bill 512, signed that June, requires every Ohio water system to warn customers within two days of a lead exceedance.",
      "The village sells bulk water at $35.46 per 1,000 gallons (2026) and charges out-of-village customers surcharges of 50% in Beloit and 75% in Smith Township and Columbiana County.",
      "Water and sewer rates rise 5% automatically every year under a schedule adopted in 2021 that has no end date.",
      "The village's own storm water utility charges a flat $4.50 per residence per quarter - $18 a year."
    ],
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      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebring,_Ohio",
        "https://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2016/12/the-nations-water-crisis-hit-close-to-home-in-2016/",
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://sebringohio.net/water-department/"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026_Water_Rates.pdf",
        "https://sebringohio.net/water-department/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
      "projects": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/water-department/",
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026_Water_Rates.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=OH5001911"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026_Water_Rates.pdf"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/THIS-IS-THE-FINAL-COPY-CCR2025.pdf",
        "https://sebringohio.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026_Water_Rates.pdf",
        "https://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2016/12/the-nations-water-crisis-hit-close-to-home-in-2016/"
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    "caption": "Frank Sebring House on West Ohio Avenue in Sebring, Ohio",
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