{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH6400111", "name": "Crooksville", "county": "Perry", "population": 2534, "producer": false, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH6400111", "OH0501311" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1874", "Village grew out of a post-office petition; the Post Office Department approved Joseph Crooks's request after rejecting the proposed 'Reeds Post Office' as a duplicate, naming it Crooksville instead." ], [ "1894", "Formally incorporated as a village, population about 800." ], [ "1920", "Population peaked at 3,311 (per Wikipedia's history section), having grown from 835 in 1900 to 3,028 in 1910 during the pottery and coal boom; not 1910 as previously stated. (2,534 are served by the…" ], [ "2012", "Ohio EPA completed a Drinking Water Source Assessment for Burr Oak Regional Water District's wellfield, rating it highly susceptible to contamination." ], [ "2025", "The 2025 CCR disclosed and corrected multiple errors in Crooksville's 2024 CCR: copper MCLG was reported as 0 ppm (actual 1.3 ppm) and its action level as 1,300 ppm (actual 1.3 ppm); lead 90th…" ] ], "treat": "Crooksville has no treatment plant of its own; it buys fully treated water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, which pumps groundwater from 6 wells (about 4 MGD) in the sand-and-gravel Hocking River Buried Valley aquifer in Athens County/Dover Township and disinfects with chlorine (TTHM/HAA5 are…", "press": "Not published; no pressure-zone or psi figures appear in the 2025 CCR or the village site.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published online; the village directs residents to the Utility Billing Department (740-982-2712) for current water rates — this phone number matches the billing contact given…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "71.5", "ppb", "80 ppb", "2025", "Range 44.2-71.5 ppb. Flagged as a violation in the 2025 CCR despite being under the 80 ppb numeric MCL (a…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "21", "ppb", "60 ppb", "2025", "Range 11.7-21 ppb; no violation. By-product of chlorination." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "1.0", "ppb", "15 ppb action…", "2025", "0 of 10 samples over the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.158", "ppm", "1.3 ppm action…", "2025", "0 of 10 samples over the action level." ], [ "Fluoride", "1.24", "ppm", "4 ppm", "2025", "Range 0.77-1.24 ppm." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.50", "ppm", "10 ppm", "2025", "Well below MCL." ], [ "Barium", "0.061", "ppm", "2 ppm", "2023", "BORWD sampling result." ], [ "Cyanide", "1.0", "ppb", "200 ppb", "2023", "BORWD sampling result." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Water Systems Improvement Project", null, "", "unknown", "A village web page referencing this project exists but, on direct review, contains no cost, scope, or date detail — only navigation/contact boilerplate. Year…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Lead service line inventory", null, "", "under construction", "Per the 2025 CCR: 'The Village of Crooksville continues to work on the service line inventory,' viewable in person at the village office, 22 China Street…" ] ], "stress": "The purchased source (Burr Oak Regional Water District's wells in the Hocking River Buried Valley aquifer) is rated by Ohio EPA (Drinking Water Source Assessment, May 2012) as highly susceptible to contamination, due to a protective clay layer under 20 ft thick, depth to water under 20 ft, and nearby potential contaminant sources (a…", "sew": { "s": "Not confirmed from sources reviewed; Crooksville's site does not publish sewer plant details in the pages checked.", "st": "Not confirmed from sources reviewed. (A previously cited Spectrum News 1 article about August 2026 flooding/evacuation shelters in Crooksville/Roseville now returns a 404 and could not be verified through any other source, so it was removed rather than…" }, "fun": [ "Crooksville buys 100% of its drinking water rather than treating any itself — it's entirely dependent on the Burr Oak Regional Water District's wellfield near Athens.", "That same wellfield also supplies 17 other 'satellite' systems and roughly 36,000 other Ohioans besides Crooksville's own 2,534 residents.", "Crooksville grew up around 'bluebird pottery' kilns fired only in spring and fall (when the bluebirds were around), earning it the nickname 'The Clay City of Perry County,' and later hosted the well-known Hull Pottery…", "The village's 2025 water report had to publicly correct multiple errors from the prior year's report — including a copper action level mistakenly listed as 1,300 ppm instead of 1.3 ppm, and understated disinfection…" ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooksville,_Ohio", "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "impurities": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://crooksville.com/water-systems-improvement-project/" ], "planned": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://crooksville.com/wp-content/uploads/CCR-Report-for-Year-2025-1-1.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooksville,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43731", "share": 0.5213, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "43777", "share": 0.0232, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH6400111.jpg", "caption": "Historical bird's-eye view postcard of Crooksville, Ohio", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6400111/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH6400111.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), \"Crooksville · OH6400111\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH6400111/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }