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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH7604512",
  "name": "Aqua Ohio - Massillon",
  "county": "Stark",
  "population": 95636,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Wells in Tuscarawas Valley sand & gravel aquifer",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 11,
  "aquifer": "Tuscarawas Valley sand and gravel aquifer",
  "notes": "Massillon Division draws from ~10-11 wells in the buried sand-and-gravel aquifer beneath the Tuscarawas River valley; historically supplemented by purchases from City of North Canton as backup.",
  "urls": [
    "https://prod.aquawater.com/WaterQualityReports/2024/OH/OH7604512.pdf",
    "https://prod.aquawater.com/WaterQualityReports/2022/OH/OH7604512.pdf"
  ],
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Aqua Ohio Massillon Well Field (Tuscarawas Valley Wells)",
      "a": "870 Third St NW, Massillon, OH 44647 (Aqua Ohio Massillon operations office; individual wells are distributed along the…",
      "la": 40.8009,
      "lo": -81.5215,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Tuscarawas Valley sand and gravel aquifer (groundwater, wells drawing from alongside the Tuscarawas River)",
      "src": "Roughly nine to ten Aqua Ohio wells screened in the sand-and-gravel aquifer along the Tuscarawas River valley in and near Massillon",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Tuscarawas Valley well field",
          "wb": "Tuscarawas Valley sand-and-gravel aquifer",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "Ten wells in sand and gravel along the Tuscarawas River valley in and around Massillon; in practice the system's only source. (10 wells)",
          "la": 40.8009,
          "lo": -81.5215,
          "pt": "approximate",
          "sh": 100
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1853",
        "Massillon Water Company incorporated Sept. 22 with $50,000 capital stock; piped water in cement-lined wrought-iron mains from a reservoir near Prospect St."
      ],
      [
        "1886",
        "Samuel R. Bullock & Co. of New York bought the works, pumped Sippo Lake water to the reservoir with two 2-MGD Blake engines, and built a 150-foot standpipe."
      ],
      [
        "1893",
        "After the Panic of 1893 the plant sold at sheriff's auction for $77,000; the buyer formed the Massillon Water Supply Company."
      ],
      [
        "1928",
        "Federal Water Service's Massillon Water Service Company was renamed the Ohio Water Service Company."
      ],
      [
        "1999",
        "Consumers Water Co., which had absorbed Ohio Water Service in 1973, merged into Philadelphia Suburban, renamed Aqua America in 2004."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Ten wells in a Tuscarawas Valley sand-and-gravel aquifer; water is disinfected with chlorine (the 2024 CCR describes no filtration or softening train). Aqua also buys North Canton water to supplement Green and parts of the Stark County system.",
    "press": "not published - no CCR, engineering report, or pressure-zone map found with a service pressure figure.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No $/1,000 gal published. Pending PUCO case 25-0594-WW-AIR seeks $13.4M more: $4.28-$25.80/month at 4,000 gal by district (OCC; hearings Jan-Feb 2026).",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "27.9",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2024",
        "Range 23.8-27.9; purchased North Canton water ran 33.8 ppb. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "8.6",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2024",
        "Range 6.0-8.6; reported only for the purchased North Canton supply."
      ],
      [
        "Total chlorine residual",
        "1.0",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.9-1.4 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.0",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2024",
        "Range 0.8-1.1 ppm; natural deposits plus additive."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.013",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2022",
        "Far below the limit; erosion of natural deposits."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "ND",
        "ppb",
        "AL=15",
        "2024",
        "33 samples, none over the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "ND",
        "ppm",
        "AL=1.3",
        "2024",
        "33 samples, none over the action level."
      ],
      [
        "PFAS (PFPeA / PFHxA)",
        "ND-0.0030 /…",
        "ppb",
        "unregulated…",
        "2023",
        "Trace detections under EPA's UCMR5; all other PFAS non-detect."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Aqua Ohio statewide capital investment, 2014-2024",
        522000000,
        "2024",
        "completed",
        "The 2024 CCR reports Aqua invested nearly $522M across its Ohio water systems over the decade. No Massillon-specific project list is published."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Aqua Ohio 2025 capital program",
        67000000,
        "2025",
        "planned",
        "Aqua's 2024 CCR says it planned about $67M of Ohio system investment in 2025; no Massillon project list given."
      ],
      [
        "PUCO rate case 25-0594-WW-AIR",
        null,
        "2026",
        "proposed",
        "Aqua seeks $13.4M more statewide to recover capital investment; hearings were held Jan.-Feb. 2026 and no decision is reflected in OCC materials."
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA rates the Tuscarawas Valley aquifer highly susceptible to contamination - aquifer sensitivity, many potential contaminant sources in the protection area, and evidence of past human impacts on groundwater (2024 CCR). Trace PFPeA/PFHxA in 2023 UCMR5; no MCL exceedances.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Aqua Ohio is a water-only utility here. Sanitary sewer service in Massillon is a City of Massillon function; plant name, capacity and receiving stream were not confirmed in sources reviewed.",
      "st": "Not confirmed in sources reviewed."
    },
    "fun": [
      "The Massillon Water Company was chartered on September 22, 1853 with $50,000 in stock and distributed water through cement-lined wrought-iron pipe.",
      "In 1886 New York financiers Samuel R. Bullock & Co. bought the works, pumped Sippo Lake water with two 2-million-gallon-a-day Blake engines, and built a 150-foot standpipe.",
      "In March 1957 the private water company handed the City of Massillon its old reservoir - 7 acres of land and 18 acres of water - for a public park.",
      "Massillon's water is chlorinated but never filtered or softened: the 2024 CCR lists chlorine disinfection as the whole treatment train."
    ]
  },
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH7604512.jpg",
    "caption": "The Tuscarawas River at Massillon, Ohio, alongside which the well field's aquifer lies",
    "credit": "Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant)",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 2.5"
  },
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
  "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Aqua Ohio - Massillon · OH7604512\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7604512/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].",
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