{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8800012", "name": "Carey Village", "county": "Wyandot", "population": 3674, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (3 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 3, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH8800012" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1843", "R. M. Shuler and W. J. Buell laid out the town on land they owned, naming it for Judge John Carey, an early prominent resident of the region." ], [ "1858", "Carey was incorporated as an Ohio village on June 2." ], [ "1894", "The village's public water system was initiated and developed (per the Village's own history page)." ], [ "1938", "Carey's sewer system was built through a WPA program." ], [ "2025", "Ohio EPA source water protection program status became effective for the system on December 3 (per EPA SDWIS)." ] ], "treat": "Three municipal wells near the west edge of Carey by Waterworks Park draw from fractured limestone, open between roughly 22 and 210 feet. Water is disinfected with chlorine (2021 total chlorine 1.1 ppm, range 0.5-1.7 ppm); no other treatment step is described in the CCR. The Village reports the…", "press": "Not published. No CCR statement, engineering report, or pressure-zone map giving distribution pressures was located.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "No rate schedule, rate ordinance, or fee sheet is published on the village website; the only billing resource posted is an InvoiceCloud payment portal…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Nitrate", "6.86", "ppm (mg/L)", "10", "2021", "Range 5.68-7.93 ppm; MCL and MCLG both 10 ppm. Ohio EPA cites this level as evidence of a pathway from the ground…" ], [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "25.4", "ppb", "80", "2021", "Range 22.4-28.4 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation." ], [ "Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "8.3", "ppb", "60", "2021", "Range 8.0-8.6 ppb; disinfection byproduct, no violation." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "1.1", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2021", "Range 0.5-1.7 ppm; water additive used to control microbes." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "4.8", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2021", "Zero samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level. Separately, the village posted a lead service line notification to…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.19", "ppm", "1.3 ppm / 1350…", "2021", "Zero samples exceeded the copper action level." ], [ "Barium", "0.015", "ppm", "2", "2019", "Well below MCL/MCLG of 2 ppm." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.526", "ppm", "4", "2019", "Naturally occurring; well below MCL/MCLG of 4 ppm." ], [ "Open non-health-based violations", "2", "violations", "", "2025", "Per EPA SDWIS: an 'Other' non-health-based violation open since 2021-10-21 and a reporting violation open since…" ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water assessment, reprinted in the Village's CCR, rates Carey's drinking water source as having a high susceptibility to contamination for four stated reasons: nitrate present between 5.68 and 7.93 mg/L implying a pathway from the ground surface to the aquifer; the wells sit near a sensitive potential karst area; the…", "sew": { "s": "Village-run wastewater treatment plant, in the same Water and Wastewater Treatment department as the water plant (Director Michael Bakies, Class I water / Class II wastewater), producing a discharge of approximately 550,000 gallons per day released into the waters of the state. The village's sewer system dates to a 1938 WPA project.…", "st": "Not documented in any village or Ohio EPA source located." }, "fun": [ "Carey's three municipal wells sit at Waterworks Park on the west edge of town and are open as deep as 210 feet in fractured limestone - a karst-influenced aquifer that Ohio EPA formally rates as highly susceptible to…", "The village's water plant and its wastewater plant each move almost exactly the same volume: the village reports nearly 550,000 gallons per day supplied and approximately 550,000 gallons per day discharged.", "Carey has been a water utility for over 130 years - the village dates its public water system to 1894 and its sewers to a 1938 Works Progress Administration project." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/history", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey,_Ohio", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH8800012/JSON" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/sites/default/files/ccr_reports/voc_ccr_2021_r1_2.pdf", "https://www.careyohio.gov/water-wastewater-treatment", "https://www.careyohio.gov/water-quality-report" ], "rates": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/sites/default/files/ccr_reports/voc_ccr_2021_r1_2.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH8800012/JSON", "https://www.careyohio.gov/news-announcements" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/sites/default/files/ccr_reports/voc_ccr_2021_r1_2.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH8800012/JSON" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/water-wastewater-treatment", "https://www.careyohio.gov/history" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.careyohio.gov/sites/default/files/ccr_reports/voc_ccr_2021_r1_2.pdf", "https://www.careyohio.gov/water-wastewater-treatment", "https://www.careyohio.gov/history" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43316", "share": 0.6093, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8800012.jpg", "caption": "Historic postcard of Waterworks Park in Carey, Ohio, site of the village's water supply works", "credit": "This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Columbus Metropolitan Library ", "license": "Public domain" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8800012/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8800012.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Carey Village · OH8800012\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8800012/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }