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  "pwsid": "OH7900612",
  "name": "Aqua Ohio - Midvale",
  "county": "Tuscarawas",
  "population": 2147,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1888",
        "Midvale was platted as a village, named for lying halfway between New Philadelphia and Uhrichsville (population 673 at the 2020 census)."
      ],
      [
        "2002",
        "Ohio EPA source water assessment found the aquifer serving Midvale's 3 wells highly susceptible to contamination, due to a permeable sandy-loam layer over the sand-and-gravel aquifer."
      ],
      [
        "2023-2024",
        "Ohio EPA required the village to build a roughly $2.6 million manganese/iron filtration plant it could not readily fund after decades without investment in aging (~70-year-old) water lines; council…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Under the Village of Midvale's own operation, 1 of 10 lead samples hit 23 ppb and 1 of 10 copper samples hit 2.13 ppm, both over their action levels (90th-percentile values were 0 ppb lead / 1.2 ppm…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "April 17: Aqua Ohio purchased the Village of Midvale's public water system for roughly $2.95 million, renaming it Aqua Ohio – Midvale."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "October 30: Ohio EPA issued a Notice of Violation over incomplete/inaccurate data tables in the 2024 CCR that the village had certified before the sale; Aqua issued corrected data in its own 2025 CCR."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Supplied by three groundwater wells; water is disinfected with chlorine (0.9 ppm average, range 0.6-1.3 ppm in 2025). Aqua's CCR describes no filtration or softening step beyond disinfection. Separately, Ohio EPA had ordered the village (pre-sale) to build a roughly $2.6M plant to remove…",
    "press": "Not published in the CCR or elsewhere found.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No Midvale-specific tariff figure was found; Aqua's PUCO tariffs are filed system-by-system and were not locatable for this system. Aqua's own CCR markets the water as costing…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total chlorine",
        "0.9",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.6-1.3 ppm; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.09",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2025",
        "No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "0.08",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "1.4",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        "No violation."
      ],
      [
        "TTHM",
        "5.9",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Range ND-5.9 ppb; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (individual sample, 2024)",
        "23",
        "ppb",
        "15 (AL)",
        "2024",
        "1 of 10 samples over AL under prior village ownership; 90th-percentile compliance value was 0 ppb, no formal violation."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (individual sample, 2024)",
        "2.13",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (AL)",
        "2024",
        "1 of 10 samples over AL; 90th-percentile compliance value 1.2 ppm, no formal violation."
      ],
      [
        "PFAS (6 regulated compounds)",
        "ND",
        "ppt",
        "varies by…",
        "2025",
        "PFOA, PFOS, HFPO-DA, PFBS, PFHxS, PFNA all non-detect across sampling on 6/26/2025 and 12/16/2025, ahead of the 2027…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Village of Midvale water system acquired by Aqua Ohio",
        null,
        "2025",
        "completed",
        "Ownership transfer April 17, 2025; system now operated as Aqua Ohio – Midvale."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Aqua Ohio statewide infrastructure investment",
        61000000,
        "2026",
        "planned",
        "Company-wide (not Midvale-specific) planned 2026 investment across all Aqua Ohio systems; Aqua reports ~$559M invested statewide 2015-2025, per the CCR's cover…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Ohio EPA's 2002 source water assessment rates the aquifer feeding Midvale's 3 wells as highly susceptible to contamination, citing a permeable sandy-loam layer and limited natural protection from the sand/gravel aquifer.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not published; Aqua Ohio's acquisition covered only the water system. No sewer operator or treatment-plant details for this small village (population 673) were found in sources reviewed.",
      "st": "Not published."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Midvale's water utility changed corporate hands mid-stream in 2025: the village sold its public water system to Aqua Ohio (a subsidiary of Essential Utilities) on April 17, 2025.",
      "Months after the sale, Ohio EPA cited the prior owner (the village) for inaccurate 2024 water-quality reporting -- a violation notice landed on the new corporate owner's desk for numbers it didn't produce.",
      "Aqua's own CCR literally says it delivers Midvale's water for 'about a penny a gallon.'",
      "All six PFAS 'forever chemicals' now federally regulated came back non-detect in Midvale's 2025 testing, two years ahead of the EPA's 2027 compliance deadline."
    ],
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        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midvale,_Ohio",
        "https://news.yahoo.com/future-midvale-water-system-remains-174505845.html"
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      "treatment": [
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      "rates": [
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      "projects": [
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        "https://prod.aquawater.com/WaterQualityReports/2025/OH/OH7900612.pdf"
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    "caption": "Town Hall and Fire Department in Midvale, Ohio",
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
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