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  "name": "Ross County Water Co. Inc",
  "county": "Ross",
  "population": 35345,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Teays Valley Aquifer (buried valley groundwater)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 8,
  "aquifer": "Teays Valley Aquifer",
  "notes": "Eight production wells pump from the Teays Valley (buried river) Aquifer; raw water is hard (400-440 mg/L), softened during treatment.",
  "urls": [
    "https://rosscowater.org/documents/1802/2024_CCR_Final.pdf",
    "https://web.ohioruralwater.org/System/Ross-County-Water-Co-Inc-126"
  ],
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    {
      "n": "Ross County Water Co. – North & South Treatment Plants (combined system)",
      "a": "663 Fairgrounds Rd, Chillicothe, OH 45601",
      "la": 39.4092,
      "lo": -82.9992,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Teays River Aquifer (buried-valley groundwater, Scioto River valley)",
      "src": "Eight wells in the buried Teays River Aquifer, in the Scioto valley north of Chillicothe",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "R.C.W.C. Well Field",
          "wb": "Teays River (Teays Valley) buried-valley aquifer – a deeply buried ancient river channel filled with sand and gravel, one of Ohio's three…",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Single wellfield of 8 production wells in the Teays Valley Aquifer north of Chillicothe, supplying raw water to both the North and South treatment plants (3.5 MGD each); Ohio EPA rates the aquifer highly susceptible to contamination. (8 wells)",
          "la": 39.4092,
          "lo": -82.9992,
          "pt": "plant",
          "sh": 100,
          "wells": [
            "Well 4",
            "Well 5",
            "Well 6",
            "Well 7",
            "Well 8",
            "Well 9",
            "Well 10",
            "Well 11"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1980",
        "IRS grants Ross County Water Company tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(12) member-owned mutual utility, effective September 1980."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Company reports no MCL or action-level violations across bacteriological, radioactive, disinfection-byproduct, lead/copper and PFAS monitoring."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Participates in EPA's fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule round; of 29 PFAS compounds plus lithium, only PFPeA is detected, at the South plant."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "A system-wide water rate increase takes effect with July 2024 billing."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Eight wells in the buried Teays Valley aquifer feed two 3.5 MGD plants (North and South). The CCR does not publish the treatment train; finished water is chlorinated (1.21 ppm) and fluoridated (0.90 ppm), leaving at 120-140 mg/L hardness and 240-280 mg/L alkalinity.",
    "press": "not published - no system-wide psi figure appears in the 2024 CCR or on the company's website; water is delivered from two plants across a rural six-county network.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 9.68,
      "n": "Effective with July 2024 billing, 5/8\" meter: $26.54 minimum for the first 1,500 gal, then $9.68/1,000 gal for the next 8,500, $7.82 for the next 40,000, $5.04 above 50,000.…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes)",
        "22.3",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb",
        "2024",
        "Range 16.6-22.3 ppb, no violation."
      ],
      [
        "HAA5 (Haloacetic Acids)",
        "8.1",
        "ppb",
        "60 ppb",
        "2024",
        "Range 7.1-8.1 ppb, no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.75",
        "ppm",
        "10 ppm",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.40-0.96 ppm; typical source is fertilizer runoff."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.90",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.76-1.10 ppm; added to promote strong teeth."
      ],
      [
        "Total Chlorine",
        "1.21",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm (MRDL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.58-1.79 ppm, no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "1.5",
        "ppb",
        "15 ppb action…",
        "2024",
        "0 of 30 samples over the action level; no lead service lines identified."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.94",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm action…",
        "2024",
        "0 of 30 samples over the action level."
      ],
      [
        "PFPeA (perfluoropentanoic acid)",
        "0.0031",
        "ppb (ug/L)",
        "0.0030 ppb…",
        "2024",
        "South plant entry point; only PFAS detected of 29 tested under UCMR5. No federal MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Radium-228",
        "2.72",
        "pCi/L",
        "5 pCi/L…",
        "2022",
        "No violation; erosion of natural deposits."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Lead service line inventory",
        null,
        "2024",
        "completed",
        "Found no lead, galvanized-requiring-replacement, or unknown-material service lines, using historic records and visual inspections."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Phase X service territory extension",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "Mains to be extended to portions of Upper Twin, Fordyce, Pricer Ridge, Benner Hill, Mt Olive, Turkey Ridge and Wisecup Hill roads. No published cost or date."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water susceptibility analysis rates the aquifer at this well field HIGH susceptibility to contamination, because of the aquifer's sensitivity and several potential contaminant sources inside the protection zone - though no contamination has been detected. Growth pressure comes from continued rural expansion needing new…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Ross County Water Company supplies drinking water only and operates no sewers. Its service area is rural and largely unincorporated; no public sanitary sewer system serving Bourneville, South Salem, Richmond Dale, Londonderry, Kingston or Frankfort was identified in the sources reviewed.",
      "st": "No public storm sewer system or stormwater utility was identified for these rural areas in the sources reviewed."
    },
    "fun": [
      "The company draws from the Teays River Aquifer, which its CCR calls one of the three major underground aquifers in the state of Ohio - the buried channel of a pre-glacial river.",
      "A single eight-well field feeds two treatment plants, North and South, each rated at 3.5 million gallons per day.",
      "It is a nonprofit, member-owned utility run by five trustees and 42 employees, serving about 15,000 customers across Ross, Pike, Pickaway, Vinton, Hocking and Jackson counties.",
      "Finished water leaves the plants at 120-140 mg/L hardness (7-8 grains per gallon) with unusually high alkalinity of 240-280 mg/L."
    ]
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    "caption": "Main Street in Bourneville, Ohio, one of the towns served by Ross County Water Co.",
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