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  "pwsid": "OH5260712",
  "name": "Medina Co/southern Water Dist",
  "county": "Medina",
  "population": 4708,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
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  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "2020",
        "January 21: SDWIS opens a non-health-based 'Other' category violation; no return-to-compliance date is recorded."
      ],
      [
        "2022",
        "December 7: a second non-health-based 'Other' category violation opens; also with no return-to-compliance date recorded."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "The district receives a significant deficiency violation because an ODNR-permitted oil well was installed inside the 300-foot sanitary isolation radius of the Westfield wellhead. Medina County…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "The Westfield emergency interconnection to the county's Northwest Water System, at Friendsville and Lafayette Roads, was used for 217 days and delivered 67 million gallons."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "December 3: source water protection status begins for the system in SDWIS."
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "April 9: Ohio EPA issues a preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact for a $75 million replacement of the Chippewa Lake WWTP, which serves the same Chippewa Lake area."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Two county-run groundwater plants. The Chippewa Lake Water Plant draws three wells at 7090 Lake Road and, per EPA treatment records, uses packed-tower aeration, pressure sand filtration for both filtration and manganese removal, and pre-hypochlorination. The Westfield Water Plant drew two wells…",
    "press": "Not published. No CCR figure, engineering report or pressure-zone map for the district was located.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not verified. The Medina County Sanitary Engineering fee and charge schedule (effective January 1, 2026) is the governing document but its PDF is served behind a bot-protection…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "66.2",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 8.6-66.2. The highest reading is 83% of the federal limit, the district's closest approach to any standard."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "27.8",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range <2.8-27.8; disinfection by-product."
      ],
      [
        "Arsenic",
        "2.0",
        "ppb",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range <0.5-2.0; erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate (as N)",
        "0.58",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range <0.19-0.58."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrite (as N)",
        "0.22",
        "ppm",
        "1 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.02-0.22."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine residual",
        "0.98",
        "ppm",
        "4.0 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.34-2.62."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.0209",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.0209-0.0299."
      ],
      [
        "Cyanide",
        "1",
        "ppb",
        "200 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 1-1."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.33",
        "ppm",
        "4.0 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.32-0.33."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "1",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2024",
        "0 of 20 sites above the action level; the county reports no lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement or unknown-material…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Permanent shutdown of the Westfield well",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Taken permanently out of service after an ODNR-permitted oil well was installed inside the 300-foot sanitary isolation radius of the wellhead, which drew a…"
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Chippewa Lake WWTP replacement and pump station reconstruction (Sewer District #700)",
        75000000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Wastewater, not water, but it serves the same Chippewa Lake community. Medina County requested $75 million from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund at…"
      ],
      [
        "Westfield water plant expansion",
        23000000,
        "2026",
        "proposed",
        "Flagged with caution: the only source located is AI-generated coverage of a February 2026 Medina County commissioners meeting on a capital plan of more than…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Real and documented. Ohio EPA rates the Chippewa Lake wells and the Greenwich Road wells as moderately susceptible to contamination, but the Westfield Road well, screened less than 20 feet below ground under a thin clay layer, as highly susceptible; the county maintains a wellhead protection plan in response. That well is now permanently…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not the same footprint as the water district, and only partly documented. The Medina County Sanitary Engineer operates three wastewater plants countywide; the Chippewa Lake WWTP (Plant #700, Sewer District #700) serves the villages of Chippewa Lake and Gloria Glens Park, about 1,100 people, with a 0.874 MGD design average flow…",
      "st": "Not documented. No county or Ohio EPA source located describes storm sewers, separation, or drainage problems in Westfield Center or Chippewa Lake. The CCR notes only that storm drains discharge directly to the ground or streams."
    },
    "fun": [
      "The district is run out of the Medina County Sanitary Engineer's office in Columbia Station, not by either of the two communities it serves.",
      "In 2025 the county permanently shut down the Westfield well rather than operate it after the state permitted an oil well inside the 300-foot sanitary isolation radius around the wellhead.",
      "The Westfield Road well was screened less than 20 feet below the surface under a thin clay layer, which is why Ohio EPA rated it highly susceptible to contamination while the deeper Greenwich Road wells, under 40-plus…",
      "For 217 days in 2025 the district ran on an emergency pipe: the Friendsville and Lafayette Road interconnection to the county's Northwest Water System delivered 67 million gallons.",
      "The Chippewa Lake wastewater plant that serves the same community was originally built in 1925 as Imhoff tanks and slow sand filtration, and its last real upgrade was an equalization tank in 1995."
    ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH5260712/JSON",
        "https://www.medinaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_southern_water_district_CCR.pdf",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/29/public%20comment%20docs/Medina-Co-Chippewa-Lake-WWTP-prelim-FNSI-_-EA.pdf"
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH5260712/JSON"
      ],
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      "impurities": [
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      "projects": [
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      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/29/public%20comment%20docs/Medina-Co-Chippewa-Lake-WWTP-prelim-FNSI-_-EA.pdf",
        "https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7596339/ohio/medina-county/ohio/medina-county/Ohio/Medina-County/Medina-County-faces-multiyear-water-and-sewer-rate-increases-to-cover-50M-capital-plan"
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH5260712/JSON"
      ],
      "sewer": [
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        "https://www.medinaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2025_southern_water_district_CCR.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH5260712/JSON",
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/29/public%20comment%20docs/Medina-Co-Chippewa-Lake-WWTP-prelim-FNSI-_-EA.pdf"
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    "caption": "Downtown Westfield Center, Ohio, served by this water district's wells",
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
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