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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH6000212",
  "name": "Dresden",
  "county": "Muskingum",
  "population": 2000,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH6000212"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1799",
        "First settlers (Jonathan Cass and Seth Adams) claimed land in the area that became Dresden, on/near the former Shawnee village of Wakatomika."
      ],
      [
        "1835",
        "Village of Dresden incorporated (March 9)."
      ],
      [
        "1852",
        "A 1,000-foot suspension bridge, reportedly the third suspension bridge built in the United States, was completed over the Muskingum River."
      ],
      [
        "1913",
        "The Great Flood of 1913 destroyed the 1852 suspension bridge."
      ],
      [
        "2016",
        "EPA SDWIS records show a monitoring/reporting violation opening in the water system in December 2015-January 2016, returned to compliance by September 2016."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Groundwater from 3 wells; the specific treatment train (filtration, disinfection type) for the drinking-water system was not found in any source reached this session, including no locatable Consumer Confidence Report for the private owner of PWSID OH6000212.",
    "press": "Not published; no pressure or pressure-zone data found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule found. EPA's federal inventory lists this drinking-water system's owner type as \"Private\" (confirmed again this session via the WATER_SYSTEM record), which is…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Monitoring/reporting violations",
        "N/A",
        "violation",
        "N/A",
        "2015-201…",
        "Two non-health-based MR violations, both returned to compliance by 2016, per EPA SDWIS."
      ],
      [
        "Reporting violation",
        "N/A",
        "violation",
        "N/A",
        "2024",
        "Non-health-based \"Other\" category violation opened 12/19/2024, not yet returned to compliance as of the latest EPA…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [
      [
        "USDA Rural Development grant for wastewater infrastructure",
        1250000,
        "unknown",
        "unknown",
        "A U.S. Senate press release describes a $1.25 million USDA Rural Development award to the Village of Dresden for wastewater infrastructure/a new treatment…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Small groundwater drinking-water system (~2,000 population served, 950 service connections per EPA record) drawing from 3 wells; an open, unresolved reporting violation since December 2024 suggests administrative/compliance strain on the private owner. Separately, the village's own wastewater treatment plant (400,000 gpd design flow) is…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Confirmed via Ohio EPA NPDES permit renewal (Public Notice 204116, June 2024): the Village of Dresden operates its own \"Village of Dresden WWTP\" at 30 Lock Street, a Class II treatment works with a 400,000 gpd (0.40 MGD) design flow, discharging to the Muskingum River at River Mile 91.7 under Ohio EPA Permit 0PB00012*ND. This sanitary…",
      "st": "Not published in sources reached this session."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Dresden sits on or near the site of Wakatomika, a Shawnee village burned in 1774 during Lord Dunmore's War.",
      "A 1,000-foot suspension bridge built in 1852 across the Muskingum River at Dresden was reportedly the third suspension bridge ever built in the United States; it was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1913.",
      "Federal drinking-water records list Dresden's public water system as privately owned, with 950 service connections for a population served of about 2,000 — while the village government separately operates its own…"
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden,_Ohio",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON",
        "https://villageofdresden.com/"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/DraftPN/0PB00012.pdf"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden,_Ohio",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH6000212/JSON"
      ]
    }
  },
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      "share": 0.9478,
      "dominant": true
    },
    {
      "zip": "43821",
      "share": 0.391,
      "dominant": true
    }
  ],
  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH6000212.jpg",
    "caption": "Historic view of Main Street, Dresden, Ohio, Muskingum County",
    "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ",
    "license": "Public domain"
  },
  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6000212/",
  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6000212.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), \"Dresden · OH6000212\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6000212/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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}