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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH8600912",
  "name": "Montpelier Village",
  "county": "Williams",
  "population": 4280,
  "producer": true,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Groundwater wells (4 wells)",
  "bodies": [],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": 4,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
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  "plants": [],
  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1845",
        "Montpelier platted and named after Montpelier, Vermont (a post office opened in 1846)."
      ],
      [
        "1875",
        "Village of Montpelier incorporated; today a charter village with a manager/council form of government that runs its own water, electric and sewer utilities."
      ],
      [
        "2024",
        "EPA SDWIS records a health-based treatment-technique violation and a companion reporting violation for the village water system, both with compliance periods beginning 17 October 2024; both have…"
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "An 'other'-category reporting-rule violation (the same violation type recorded against the system in 2006 and 2020, both resolved) opened on 7 January 2026 and remains open in EPA records."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Groundwater system. EPA SDWIS lists nine village wells (Wells 1-9), a treatment plant (plus a retired 'Montpelier Village Old' plant record), four clearwells, elevated storage tanks on Bryant Road, Magna Drive and at Holiday City, a Travis Drive booster station, and high-service and backwash pumps.…",
    "press": "Not published. No pressure-zone or psi figures appear in any reachable village or Ohio EPA document.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "Not found. Montpelier's rate ordinance and utility billing pages are on the village website, which could not be reached this session; no rate figure should be published for this…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0.004",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015 (AL)",
        "2025",
        "Federal SDWIS lead 90th-percentile record for the 2025 monitoring period (4 ppb), well below the 15 ppb action level."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "0.013",
        "mg/L",
        "0.015 (AL)",
        "2023",
        "The system's highest recorded 90th percentile in the 2014-2025 SDWIS series (13 ppb) — below but close to the 15 ppb…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Not established. No source reviewed this session indicates drought vulnerability, capacity limits or source contamination; equally, no Ohio EPA source-water assessment for the village was reachable, so absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Village-operated. Montpelier provides central water, electric and sewer service to residents; the wastewater plant name, capacity and receiving stream are not documented in any reachable source.",
      "st": "Not documented in available sources."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Montpelier's municipal tap water is reported to have won the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting best municipal water award five times — 2003, 2006, 2007, 2017 and 2022. Source is Wikipedia only; the…",
      "The village was named directly after Montpelier, Vermont, when it was platted in 1845.",
      "For a village of 4,280 people, Montpelier runs an unusually large groundwater system: EPA records list nine wells feeding the plant, four clearwells and three elevated tanks, including one serving Holiday City."
    ],
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      "treatment": [
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH8600912/JSON"
      ],
      "impurities": [
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/LCR_SAMPLE/PWSID/OH8600912/JSON"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier,_Ohio"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier,_Ohio",
        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH8600912/JSON"
      ]
    }
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      "dominant": true
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  "photo": {
    "url": "/photos/OH8600912.jpg",
    "caption": "Downtown Montpelier, Ohio on a Sunday evening",
    "credit": "Chris Light (talk)",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0"
  },
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
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