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  "name": "Springboro",
  "county": "Warren",
  "population": 19263,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer (own wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 6,
  "aquifer": "Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer",
  "notes": "Springboro pumps 6 wells from the sand-and-gravel Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer (a federally designated Sole Source Aquifer); also sells water to Warren Co. Pennyroyal area system.",
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    {
      "n": "Springboro Water Treatment Plant",
      "a": "Springboro, Warren County, OH 45066",
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      "lo": -84.2338,
      "pt": "approximate",
      "wb": "Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer",
      "src": "Six active municipal wells drawing from the Great Miami buried-valley aquifer beneath Springboro",
      "cls": "groundwater",
      "in": [
        {
          "n": "Dayton-Oxford Road well field",
          "wb": "Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer (shallow sand-and-gravel glacial outwash, water table typically under 5 feet below ground)",
          "role": "primary",
          "src": "All 6 city wells sit on the west side of the Great Miami River along Dayton-Oxford Road; Ohio EPA rates the source highly susceptible to contamination given the shallow water table. (6 wells)",
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            "Well 5",
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    "hist": [
      [
        "1988",
        "U.S. EPA designates the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer a federal Sole Source Aquifer (May 1988), subjecting federally funded projects over the aquifer and its recharge zone to EPA review."
      ],
      [
        "1990",
        "Veolia North America (through its predecessor) begins an operate/maintain/manage contract for Springboro's water system; the contract later expanded to the wastewater plant and collection system and…"
      ],
      [
        "2001",
        "Ohio's source water assessment rates Springboro's aquifer as having HIGH susceptibility to contamination, citing the aquifer's shallow depth (less than five feet below ground surface) and significant…"
      ],
      [
        "2006",
        "Springboro WWTP undergoes a major plant upgrade (Ohio EPA NPDES fact sheet)."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "Springboro PWS samples under the fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5); PFOA and PFOS are found above the 4.0 ppt federal MCLs adopted in 2024."
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "The system fails to demonstrate to Ohio EPA that it delivered the required annual lead / galvanized-requiring-replacement / unknown service line notifications by July 1, 2025; the missing…"
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Six municipal wells draw from the buried-valley sand-and-gravel aquifer associated with the Great Miami River. All pumped water goes to the city treatment plant at 3049 Pennyroyal Road, where it is filtered and treated with chlorine and fluoride; Veolia describes the plant as a 7-MGD anthracite…",
    "press": "Not published. Neither the 2025 or 2017 CCR, the city rate schedule, nor the Ohio EPA NPDES documents state a system psi figure or describe pressure zones.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 5.61,
      "n": "City of Springboro posted Water & Sewer Rates, effective April 2026. Water: $15.00 per month base charge plus a tiered volume rate — $6.09 per 1,000 gal for 1-1,999 gal, $6.15 for…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "PFOA",
        "5.49 (range…",
        "ppt",
        "4 (MCL…",
        "2024",
        "UCMR 5 entry-point result reported in the 2025 CCR; above the 4.0 ppt federal MCL adopted in 2024. No violation today…"
      ],
      [
        "PFOS",
        "4.91 (range…",
        "ppt",
        "4 (MCL…",
        "2024",
        "UCMR 5 entry-point result; above the 4.0 ppt federal MCL."
      ],
      [
        "PFHxS",
        "3.00-3.22…",
        "ppt",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2024",
        "The CCR's 'level found' column for this row reads 0.3, which is inconsistent with the printed range; the range is…"
      ],
      [
        "PFBS",
        "0-3.89 (range…",
        "ppt",
        "no individual…",
        "2024",
        "UCMR 5 entry-point result."
      ],
      [
        "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)",
        "21.2",
        "ppb",
        "80",
        "2025",
        "Range of detections 21.2-30.5 ppb."
      ],
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        "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)",
        "4.9",
        "ppb",
        "60",
        "2025",
        "Range 4.9-4.9 ppb."
      ],
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        "Total Chlorine",
        "1.22",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.86-1.35 ppm."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.19",
        "ppm",
        "4",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.82-1.26 ppm; the city fluoridates."
      ],
      [
        "Barium",
        "0.154",
        "ppm",
        "2",
        "2025",
        ""
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate",
        "0.69",
        "ppm",
        "10",
        "2025",
        ""
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    "proj": [],
    "plan": [
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        "Water system improvements in the 2024-2028 five-year capital improvements plan",
        11800000,
        "2024-2028",
        "planned",
        "Reported by the Journal-News / Dayton Daily News coverage of the council vote adopting the 2024 budget and five-year capital plan. The city does not publish a…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Springboro's entire supply is a single shallow aquifer, and the city's own 2025 CCR says so plainly: the buried valley aquifer it draws from is 'highly susceptible to surface contamination.' Ohio's 2001 source water assessment rated susceptibility high because the aquifer sits less than five feet below ground surface with significant…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "City-owned Springboro WWTP at 275 West Mill Street, average design flow 4.0 MGD, last given a major upgrade in 2006. Treatment train: influent pumping, bar screen, grit removal, oxidation ditch, separate-stage biological nitrification, secondary clarification, tertiary filtration and ultraviolet disinfection. It discharges to an unnamed…",
      "st": "The city bills a residential Storm Water Management Program charge of $4.00 on the utility bill. No storm sewer master plan, outfall inventory or MS4 report was found in the sources reviewed."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Springboro has not run its own water plant since 1990 — Veolia North America has held the operate-maintain-manage contract for 36 years, and the technical contact printed on the city's water quality report is a Veolia…",
      "The emergency interconnections with Franklin and Warren County are flushed every six months, pushing roughly 8,000 gallons in each direction purely to keep the pipes ready.",
      "Springboro's 2024 UCMR 5 results put PFOA and PFOS above the new 4.0 parts-per-trillion federal limits, even though the system is fully in compliance today because those limits have not yet taken effect.",
      "The 2025 water quality report carries a violation notice — not about the water, but about paperwork: the city missed the July 1, 2025 deadline to certify to Ohio EPA that it had mailed lead service line notices, and…"
    ],
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        "https://www.cityofspringboro.com/Archive/ViewFile/Item/47",
        "https://www.mcdwater.org/what-is-an-aquifer",
        "https://www.daytonohio.gov/701/Great-Miami-Buried-Valley-Aquifer"
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        "https://www.cityofspringboro.com/Archive/ViewFile/Item/47",
        "https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/case-studies/springboro-partnership-ensures-compliance"
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        "https://www.cityofspringboro.com/Archive/ViewFile/Item/47"
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      "planned": [
        "https://www.journal-news.com/community/springboro-plans-slight-deficit-spending-sets-five-year-capital-projects-plan/D4VCUDB5CBDGDM2FSXGH6H7SEQ/"
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        "https://www.cityofspringboro.com/Archive/ViewFile/Item/47",
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        "https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/case-studies/springboro-partnership-ensures-compliance",
        "https://www.cityofspringboro.com/404/Water-Sewer-Rates"
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