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  "pwsid": "OH5300012",
  "name": "Leading Creek Conservancy District",
  "county": "Meigs",
  "population": 6663,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (4 wells)",
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  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 4,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1960s",
        "Leading Creek Conservancy District formed in the late 1960s under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6101, originally to clean small streams and to develop a potable water system for rural residents…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "District held an unconditional Ohio EPA license to operate, with three Class 1 licensed operators and two licensed backflow-prevention technicians; no monitoring, MCL or treatment-technique…"
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "Boil advisory issued and then lifted on September 3-4, 2026 for SR 689 north of North Run Road, North Run Road, Cottrill Road, Cone Road, Laurel Road, Darst Road, Point Rock and Castor Cemetery."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Four groundwater wells on Watson Grove Rd. near Cheshire in Gallia County, drawing the Ohio River Valley Aquifer. Treatment is chemical rather than filtration-based: chlorine for disinfection, orthophosphate for corrosion control (to limit lead and copper leaching from customer plumbing), and…",
    "press": "not published — no distribution pressure figure appears in the district's CCR, rate schedule or website.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 11.5,
      "n": "Published rate schedule: $38.53 minimum bill including the first 2,000 gallons, then $11.50 per 1,000 gallons for 2,001-5,000; $10.30 for 5,001-11,000; $8.65 for 11,001-21,000…",
      "m": 61.53
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      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "48.9",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 43.6-48.9 ppb; the highest-loaded regulated contaminant in the system, at about 61% of the MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Bromoform",
        "44.9",
        "ppb",
        "none…",
        "2025",
        "Range 41.3-44.9 ppb. Bromoform accounts for nearly all of the district's 48.9 ppb of total trihalomethanes, a signature…"
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "18.4",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 8.1-18.4 ppb."
      ],
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        "Total chlorine",
        "1.9",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.3-1.9 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.08",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.6-1.30 ppm; fluoride is deliberately injected by the district."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.677",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Well below the MCL, but Ohio EPA's source water assessment cites man-made nitrate in the treated water as one of the…"
      ],
      [
        "Arsenic",
        "3.51",
        "ppb",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0-3.51 ppb. Note that the CCR table transposes the arsenic MCL and MCLG columns (it prints MCLG 10 / MCL 0); the…"
      ],
      [
        "Chromium",
        "1.91",
        "ppb",
        "100 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0-1.91 ppb."
      ],
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        "1.38",
        "ppb",
        "50 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0-1.38 ppb."
      ],
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        "Barium",
        "0.039",
        "ppm",
        "2 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0-0.039 ppm."
      ]
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    "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water assessment rates the district's aquifer as highly susceptible to contamination, for three stated reasons: a relatively thin protective clay layer over the aquifer, significant potential contaminant sources inside the protection area, and the presence of man-made contaminants (nitrates) in the treated water. That…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "None. Leading Creek Conservancy District is a water-only utility: its 2025 CCR states that although it remains a conservancy district formed under ORC 6101 with authority for a wide range of services, its sole function at this time is providing potable water. No sanitary sewer provider for Rutland, Langsville or Wilkesville was…",
      "st": ""
    },
    "fun": [
      "The district's wells are not in the county it mostly serves: all four are in Gallia County, on Watson Grove Rd. near Cheshire, pumping the Ohio River Valley Aquifer to customers in Meigs County and beyond.",
      "Nearly all of the district's disinfection by-product load is a single compound — bromoform measured 44.9 ppb out of 48.9 ppb of total trihalomethanes in 2025, the fingerprint of a bromide-rich groundwater source.",
      "The water is very hard: the CCR reports 21 grains per gallon, roughly 360 mg/L as calcium carbonate, and the district does not soften it.",
      "It is a conservancy district, not a village or county utility — created in the late 1960s under the same Ohio law used to organize flood-control districts, originally chartered to clean small streams as well as to pipe…",
      "The board of directors meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the water office on Corn Hollow Road, and the district runs its system with three Class 1 Ohio EPA licensed operators."
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