{
  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH6100503",
  "name": "Noble County Water Authority",
  "county": "Noble",
  "population": 2368,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "reservoir",
  "label": "Wolf Run Lake (primary) + Caldwell Lake (backup reservoirs)",
  "bodies": [
    "Wolf Run Lake",
    "Caldwell Lake"
  ],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH6100503",
    "OH6100203",
    "OH6100011"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1857",
        "Caldwell, Ohio (home of NCWA wholesale supplier Caldwell Village) founded and named for Joseph and Samuel Caldwell."
      ],
      [
        "1905",
        "Belle Valley, anchor of NCWA's Belle Valley ZIP, incorporated after the Cleveland and Marietta Railroad reached the area."
      ],
      [
        "1963-1968",
        "Wolf Run State Park land acquired in 1963 and dedicated in 1968; its 220-acre Wolf Run Lake is the authority's primary source reservoir."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Not confirmed by any primary NCWA source this session. NCWA does not treat its own water (treats_own_water: false); web sources describe a separately-operated 'Caldwell Water Works Treatment Plant' using Wolf Run Lake as its source, consistent with NCWA buying finished/wholesale water from…",
    "press": "Not published; no PSI figure located for Noble County Water Authority in any source reviewed.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No water rate schedule was found this session. The authority's own webpage publishes only a SEWER usage rate of $9.22 per 1,000 gallons plus flat monthly charges -- this is a…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Wolf Run Lake is a relatively small 220-acre impoundment used as the primary source, backed by Caldwell Lake (roughly 500-million-gallon storage) as a secondary reservoir, suggesting built-in redundancy. No drought, algal-bloom, or capacity data specific to this system was found this session.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The authority's own webpage publishes sewer billing (a $9.22/1,000-gallon usage charge plus flat monthly charges), indicating it administers sewer billing for at least part of its area, but no description of Belle Valley's sanitary collection/treatment infrastructure was found. Smaller Noble County villages often rely on septic systems…",
      "st": "Not confirmed this session -- no source located."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Noble County Water Authority's primary source, Wolf Run Lake, sits inside Wolf Run State Park, a 220-acre lake acquired by the state in 1963 and dedicated as a park in 1968.",
      "Belle Valley's history includes the May 1913 Imperial No. 3 coal-mine explosion, which killed 15 miners in a village of only about 1,000 people at the time.",
      "The authority relies on purchased wholesale water (from suppliers including Noble Water Company and Caldwell Village) rather than operating its own treatment plant."
    ],
    "src": {
      "history": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Valley,_Ohio",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldwell,_Ohio",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Run_State_Park"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://noblecountyohio.gov/9465-2/"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://noblecountyohio.gov/9465-2/"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Run_State_Park",
        "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vtu/batch_vtu_danby_ver01/data/sn86072143/00280777250/1913052201/0329.pdf",
        "https://noblecountyohio.gov/9465-2/"
      ]
    }
  },
  "zips_served": [
    {
      "zip": "43717",
      "share": 1.0,
      "dominant": true
    },
    {
      "zip": "43724",
      "share": 0.0139,
      "dominant": false
    }
  ],
  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH6100503.jpg",
    "caption": "Wolf Run Lake reservoir viewed from the campground at Wolf Run State Park, Ohio",
    "credit": "Jonathan A Brier",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6100503/",
  "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6100503.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), \"Noble County Water Authority · OH6100503\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6100503/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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