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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH7607303",
  "name": "Stark County Water District",
  "county": "Stark",
  "population": 6690,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Wells in Tuscarawas Valley sand & gravel aquifer",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
  "chain": [
    "OH7607303",
    "OH7604512"
  ],
  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [],
    "treat": "The Stark County Water District treats no water of its own. It buys finished, treated water from Aqua Ohio, Inc. (Stark Regional Division, PWSID OH7604512), delivered at two master points on Edison Street and State Street at the west Stark County border, and distributes it to portions of Lake…",
    "press": "Not published. No pressure data, hydraulic model, or pressure-zone information appears in the district's CCR or on the Stark County Sanitary Engineer's pages.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 5.5,
      "n": "Stark County Sanitary Engineer water rates, effective January 1, 2021, billed monthly: $5.50 per 1,000 gallons for the first 10,000 gallons, $4.95 per 1,000 gallons from 10,001 to…",
      "m": 22
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "47.4",
        "ppb",
        "80 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "Range 40.3 to 47.4 ppb, measured in the district's distribution system."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)",
        "<6.0",
        "ppb",
        "60 ppb MCL",
        "2025",
        "Below the reporting limit in all samples."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine",
        "0.7",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm MRDL",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.5 to 1.0 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Lead",
        "0.0",
        "ppb",
        "15.5 ppb action…",
        "2025",
        "No individual results over the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper",
        "0.0",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 ppm action…",
        "2025",
        "No individual results over the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.09",
        "ppm",
        "4 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "Measured in the Aqua Ohio Stark Regional supply; range 0.58 to 1.15 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.01",
        "ppm",
        "2 ppm MCL",
        "2025",
        "Aqua Ohio Stark Regional supply."
      ],
      [
        "Arsenic",
        "0.00",
        "ug/L",
        "10 ug/L MCL",
        "2025",
        "Aqua Ohio Stark Regional supply; not detected."
      ],
      [
        "Lithium",
        "12.9",
        "ppb",
        "unregulated",
        "2023",
        "Range 11.1 to 14.7 ppb in the Aqua Ohio supply."
      ],
      [
        "PFOA",
        "ND - 0.0013",
        "ppb",
        "unregulated at…",
        "2023",
        "Reported in the unregulated contaminant table for the Aqua Ohio supply."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Seneca Hills sewer and water extension (Lake Township)",
        null,
        "2026",
        "proposed",
        "Petition mailed to property owners 8/18/2026; parcel count not yet determined. Listed on the Stark County Sanitary Engineer's project information page. No cost…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "The Ohio EPA source water susceptibility analysis rates the aquifer supplying Aqua Ohio - and therefore the Stark County Water District - as having HIGH susceptibility to contamination, based on the aquifer's sensitivity, the number and types of potential contaminant sources within the wellhead protection area, and evidence of historical…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Sanitary sewer in the same area is provided by the Stark County Sanitary Engineer (Stark County Metropolitan Sewer District), which serves unincorporated Stark County plus portions of Summit and Carroll counties and the villages of East Canton, East Sparta, Magnolia, Meyers Lake and Waynesburg. Rates effective January 1, 2026, billed…",
      "st": "Not published; the Sanitary Engineer's pages cover sanitary sewer and water only, though the department does run an inflow and infiltration program and a clean water disconnection program aimed at keeping stormwater out of sanitary sewers."
    },
    "fun": [
      "The Stark County Water District owns no wells, no plant and no treatment: it buys finished water from Aqua Ohio at exactly two points, one on Edison Street and one on State Street, both on the west county line, and…",
      "Its only backup is an emergency connection to North Canton's system, which drew no water at all in 2025.",
      "The county's water rates have not changed since January 1, 2021, while its sewer rates were reset effective January 1, 2026."
    ],
    "src": {
      "treatment": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/Sanitary%20Engineer/CCR.pdf",
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/index.php"
      ],
      "rates": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/billing_department.php"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/Sanitary%20Engineer/CCR.pdf"
      ],
      "planned": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/engineering_department/project_information.php"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/Sanitary%20Engineer/CCR.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/billing_department.php",
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/index.php"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/Sanitary%20Engineer/CCR.pdf",
        "https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/sanitary_engineer/billing_department.php"
      ]
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    "caption": "John Miller House in Greentown, Ohio",
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