{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH4101612", "name": "Mingo Junction", "county": "Jefferson", "population": 3350, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 2, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH4101612" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1869", "Mingo Junction was founded when an iron works was started on the site of the old Mingo Town settlement on the Ohio River." ], [ "1900", "The village's only manufacturing plant was a steel mill owned by Carnegie Steel Company; the mill site is still where the village's North production well sits today." ], [ "1930", "Population peaked at 5,030 and has fallen since to 3,347 in the 2020 census, shrinking the customer base that pays for the water plant." ], [ "2003", "The village's Ranney collector well, which Ohio EPA classified as a surface-water intake, was deactivated on March 5, 2003, leaving the system on drilled wells only." ], [ "2016-2017", "Health-based MCL violations for total trihalomethanes in three consecutive quarterly compliance periods (Q4 2016, Q1 2017, Q2 2017), with running annual averages of 0.082, 0.082 and 0.081 mg/L…" ], [ "2024", "In December 2024 the village failed to make its 2023 Consumer Confidence Report adequately available and the report was short on required data; the village says availability was corrected and…" ] ], "treat": "A conventional lime-softening surface-style plant run on well water. EPA's SDWIS treatment record for the Mingo Junction WTP lists coagulation, flocculation, rapid sand filtration, lime-soda ash softening, pH adjustment, a polyphosphate corrosion inhibitor, post gaseous chlorination and…", "press": "Not published. No CCR, pressure-zone map or engineering report giving a service pressure or psi range was located; the CCRs do not discuss distribution pressure.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published online. The village water department page gives payment methods, drop-box locations and a bill-pay portal (mingojct.ohiobillpay.com) but no rate schedule, and no…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "57.1", "ppb", "80", "2024", "Range 27.3-57.1 ppb. No violation in 2024, but the system exceeded the 80 ppb MCL in 2016-2017, so this remains its…" ], [ "Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)", "5.4", "ppb", "60", "2024", "Range 4.4-5.4 ppb." ], [ "Total Chlorine", "0.95", "ppm", "MRDL=4", "2024", "Range 0.63-1.06 ppm." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.99", "ppm", "4", "2024", "Range 0.94-1.05 ppm; water additive plus natural deposits." ], [ "Barium", "32.3", "ppb", "2000", "2024", "The CCR prints the level in ppb but the MCL as '2', which is the ppm figure; the federal MCL is 2 ppm, i.e. 2,000 ppb.…" ], [ "Chromium", "1.4", "ppb", "100", "2024", "The CCR lists the typical source as discharge from steel and pulp mills, notable given the North well sits inside the…" ], [ "Nitrate", "0.36", "ppm", "10", "2024", "Single detection, well below the limit." ], [ "Dichloroethane", "0.06", "ppb", "7", "2024", "A volatile organic detection at under 1 percent of the MCL; consistent with Ohio EPA's high-susceptibility rating for…" ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0", "ppb", "AL=15", "2024", "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.021", "ppm", "AL=1.3", "2024", "0 of 20 samples exceeded the action level." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "The 2025 CCR states that the Village of Mingo Junction is considered a 'high susceptibility PWS' and that, per an earlier Ohio EPA source-water study, the aquifer supplying the village has a high susceptibility to contamination. The two production wells are only about seventy feet deep in the Ohio River valley, and the North well is…", "sew": { "s": "Village-operated wastewater department at 501 Commercial Street, run under EPA permit #OPD00010*MD. The village has posted wet-weather sewage overflow warning signs at the Mingo Marina shelter house and on the Cross Creek bank near the old Mingo Stadium, and Ohio EPA-mandated signage at its biosolids farm site, which indicates both…", "st": "Not documented. The village publishes nothing on storm sewers or on whether the collection system is combined or separate." }, "fun": [ "George Washington recorded visiting Mingo Town here in 1770, describing about 20 cabins and 70 inhabitants of the Iroquois Confederation; the same spot was the launch point for the ill-fated Crawford expedition in 1782.", "The village's North production well is drilled inside the JSW Steel mill complex, and the South well sits just west of the marina, so Mingo Junction's drinking water comes out of the ground under an active steel plant…", "Until 2003 the village drew on a Ranney collector well that Ohio EPA classified as a surface-water intake; it was deactivated on March 5, 2003, and the system has been all drilled wells since.", "Population has tracked a single mill: 371 in 1880, 5,030 at the 1930 peak, 3,347 in 2020.", "Mingo Junction keeps a decade of water quality reports, 2016 through 2025, in a public Google Drive folder linked off its water department page, which is more than many villages its size publish." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Junction,_Ohio", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON", "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AGcelUBNfORt23nOTGxzQjJ9aYAeCKOB/view" ], "treatment": [ "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/TREATMENT/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON", "https://drive.google.com/file/d/14T289kRm5kpx6PrWWfMe3cYyjo8nX9bk/view", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON" ], "rates": [ "http://www.mingojct.us/government/departments/water" ], "impurities": [ "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AGcelUBNfORt23nOTGxzQjJ9aYAeCKOB/view", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON" ], "water_stress": [ "https://drive.google.com/file/d/14T289kRm5kpx6PrWWfMe3cYyjo8nX9bk/view", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON" ], "sewer": [ "http://www.mingojct.us/government/departments/wastewater" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Junction,_Ohio", "https://drive.google.com/file/d/14T289kRm5kpx6PrWWfMe3cYyjo8nX9bk/view", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH4101612/JSON", "http://www.mingojct.us/government/departments/water" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "43938", "share": 0.6324, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH4101612.jpg", "caption": "Commercial Avenue in Mingo Junction, Ohio", "credit": "Dblcut3", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4101612/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH4101612.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), \"Mingo Junction · OH4101612\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH4101612/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }