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  "pwsid": "OH7901711",
  "name": "Twin City Water and Sewer District",
  "county": "Tuscarawas",
  "population": 9224,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Tuscarawas River valley aquifer (local wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 3,
  "aquifer": "Tuscarawas River valley aquifer",
  "notes": "3 active wells; no system-specific source documentation found, so kept as SDWIS groundwater hypothesis, consistent with the regional Tuscarawas valley sand/gravel aquifer used by nearby Dover and New Philadelphia.",
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    "https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5010/pdf/SIR2010-5010.pdf"
  ],
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  "plants": [
    {
      "n": "Twin City Well Plant",
      "la": 40.3985,
      "lo": -81.3538,
      "pt": "wellfield",
      "wb": "Tuscarawas River valley aquifer",
      "src": "Tuscarawas River valley aquifer (local wells)",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Indian Hill Road well field",
          "wb": "Tuscarawas River buried-valley aquifer, sand and gravel (shallow, <10 ft to water table, thin low-permeability cover)",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "All three wells sit at the well plant at 4194 Indian Hill Road, Uhrichsville, drawing from shallow sand-and-gravel fill of the Tuscarawas River buried valley, combined capacity ~2.25 MGD (3 wells)",
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          "pt": "wellfield",
          "wells": [
            "Well 1",
            "Well 2",
            "Well 3"
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "unknown",
        "The City of Uhrichsville and the Village of Dennison jointly established the Twin City Water & Sewer District under Uhrichsville Ordinance 1368. It is a body politic directed by a five-member Board…"
      ],
      [
        "2001",
        "District issued $2,828,000 in USDA Sewer System Revenue Bonds to finance Ohio EPA-mandated improvements at the wastewater treatment plant."
      ],
      [
        "2012",
        "New well water treatment plant built at 4194 Indian Hill Road, Uhrichsville, financed by a $4,244,156 Ohio EPA loan repaid over 30 years at 0% from water service charges."
      ],
      [
        "2023",
        "Ohio EPA sanitary survey completed Aug 1, 2023 noted minor deficiencies in distribution and finished water storage. Federal EPA data also carried a Consumer Confidence Rule non-compliance flagged Feb…"
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Flooding hit Uhrichsville around Jan 31, 2024. In April, wet weather produced nine sanitary sewer overflow event-days (April 2-6) at the Lynn Street and Sixth Street lift station outfalls…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "District held an unconditioned license to operate and treated 329,095,000 gallons of water for consumers."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Groundwater only. Three wells at the Twin City Water Well Treatment Plant, 4194 Indian Hill Road, Uhrichsville, are capable of pumping about 2,250,000 gallons per day from a sand-and-gravel aquifer within the Tuscarawas River buried valley aquifer system; the system currently produces about…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the 2025 CCR nor any other public district document reviewed gives psi values or pressure zones.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule is published anywhere online. The district website (twincitywater.com) has only Home, Water Report, Board Meetings, Employment, Contact, Public Reports and Pay…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "44.7 (range…",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 80",
        "2025",
        "Chlorination by-product; no violation. Highest of the district's detections relative to its limit, at 56% of the MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "5.22 (range…",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 60",
        "2025",
        "Chlorination by-product; no violation."
      ],
      [
        "Total Chlorine",
        "0.82 (range…",
        "ppm",
        "MRDL 4",
        "2025",
        "Disinfectant residual."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "2.02",
        "ppb",
        "AL 15",
        "2023",
        "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.198",
        "ppm",
        "AL 1.3",
        "2023",
        "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.038 (range…",
        "ppm",
        "MCL 2",
        "2025",
        "Discharge of drilling wastes and metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits. Far below MCL."
      ],
      [
        "Combined Radium (226/228)",
        "<0.703",
        "pCi/L",
        "MCL 5",
        "2025",
        "Not detected above the reporting limit."
      ],
      [
        "Alpha Emitters",
        "<1.34",
        "pCi/L",
        "MCL 15",
        "2025",
        "Not detected above the reporting limit."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate (as N)",
        "<0.100",
        "ppm",
        "MCL 10",
        "2025",
        "Not detected above the reporting limit."
      ],
      [
        "Alachlor",
        "<0.30",
        "ppb",
        "MCL 3",
        "2024",
        "Herbicide; not detected above the reporting limit."
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Trunk sewer relining (Ohio EPA loan CS392655-02)",
        1529660,
        "2006",
        "completed",
        "Ohio EPA loan at 1% interest. This is the source of the '$1.5 million' figure that an earlier draft attached to the 2015 water transmission main."
      ],
      [
        "Rotary fan sludge press (Ohio EPA loan CS391442-0004)",
        383411,
        "2010",
        "completed",
        "Wastewater plant solids handling."
      ],
      [
        "New well water treatment plant, 4194 Indian Hill Road (Ohio EPA loan FS391442-0008)",
        4244156,
        "2012",
        "completed",
        "Repaid over 30 years at 0% interest from water service charges. This is the plant described in the current CCR."
      ],
      [
        "Ultraviolet disinfection system (OPWC loan CN31P)",
        299000,
        "2012",
        "completed",
        "Ohio Public Works Commission loan, 20 years at 0% interest."
      ],
      [
        "Sixth Street lift station equipment replacement (Ohio EPA loan CS391442-0010)",
        1867874,
        "2013",
        "completed",
        "Intended to prevent sewage overflows during wet-weather events; recorded as complete at Dec 31, 2019. The same lift station was nonetheless an overflow point…"
      ],
      [
        "Water transmission main between the new well plant and the storage tank (Ohio EPA loan FS391442-0012)",
        1237430,
        "2015",
        "completed",
        "Approved amount was $1,237,430, repaid over 30 years at 1.57% from water service charges - not the $1.5 million reported in local coverage of the application."
      ],
      [
        "Eastport Avenue Improvements Phase II",
        800000,
        "2018",
        "unknown",
        "Funding package of a $150,000 OPWC grant, a $150,000 OPWC 0% loan, a $300,000 Tuscarawas County Critical Infrastructure Grant and a $200,000 Appalachian…"
      ],
      [
        "Asset Management Plan (Ohio EPA loan FS391442-0014)",
        2163,
        "2018",
        "unknown",
        "0% five-year loan plus $10,000 in principal forgiveness from Ohio EPA."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Lead and copper service line inventory",
        null,
        "2024",
        "completed",
        "Published as 'LeadCopper Inventory 2024' (an .xlsx file) on the district's Public Reports page, as required by the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; also…"
      ],
      [
        "No published capital improvement plan",
        null,
        "",
        "unknown",
        "The district publishes only two documents on its Public Reports page - the 2024 lead/copper inventory and the 2024 SSO annual report package. There is no…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The district runs the joint sanitary system for Dennison and Uhrichsville plus parts of Mill and Union Townships, and operates the Twin City WWTP (Ohio NPDES permit 0PD00015), which discharges to Stillwater Creek. Offices at 308 Grant Street, Dennison; the Water & Sewer Board meets the third Thursday of each month at the sewer office…",
      "st": "No stormwater utility, fee, or separate storm system information is published by the district. Flooding hit Uhrichsville around Jan 31, 2024, and the April 2024 sanitary sewer overflows were wet-weather driven, which points to significant inflow and…"
    },
    "fun": [
      "Twin City is a genuine two-town utility: the City of Uhrichsville and the Village of Dennison merged their water and sewer systems under Uhrichsville Ordinance 1368 rather than each running its own, and the district is…",
      "The wellfield sits under less than 10 feet of low-permeability cover with the water table less than 10 feet down, which is why Ohio EPA rates the aquifer as highly susceptible to contamination even though the district's…",
      "The district treated 329,095,000 gallons in 2025 - about 0.9 million gallons a day from wells rated at 2.25 million gallons a day, leaving roughly half its pumping capacity in reserve.",
      "The district publishes almost nothing online: its entire public document library is a lead and copper inventory spreadsheet and one sanitary sewer overflow report. Even its water rates are not posted anywhere."
    ],
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        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/Reports/2020/Twin_City_Water_and_Sewer_District_19_18-Tuscarawas_REPORT.pdf",
        "https://wtoh.us/viewarticle.asp?article=272",
        "https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/uhrichsville/latest/uhrichsville_oh/0-0-0-10181"
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        "https://twincitywater.com/public-reports/",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/Reports/2020/Twin_City_Water_and_Sewer_District_19_18-Tuscarawas_REPORT.pdf"
      ],
      "impurities": [
        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf",
        "https://wtoh.us/viewarticle.asp?article=272"
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      "projects": [
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        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-SSO-4.zip",
        "https://twincitywater.com/public-reports/",
        "https://twincitywater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf",
        "https://ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/Reports/2020/Twin_City_Water_and_Sewer_District_19_18-Tuscarawas_REPORT.pdf"
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        "https://ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/Reports/2020/Twin_City_Water_and_Sewer_District_19_18-Tuscarawas_REPORT.pdf",
        "https://twincitywater.com/public-reports/",
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