{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH7801103", "name": "Girard City", "county": "Trumbull", "population": 14122, "producer": false, "source_class": "reservoir", "label": "Meander Creek Reservoir (via Niles/MVSD, blended)", "bodies": [ "Meander Creek Reservoir" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "Girard blends water purchased from Niles, McDonald, Youngstown, and Trumbull Co. Southeast; local news (Vindicator) identifies Niles as a main distributor to Girard.", "urls": [ "https://vindyarchives.com/news/2015/oct/11/by-peter-h-milliken/", "https://www.meanderwater.org/" ], "chain": [ "OH7801103", "OH7802403", "OH7801811" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District (MVSD) Water Treatment Plant / Meander Water", "a": "1181 Ohltown-McDonald Road, Mineral Ridge, OH 44440", "la": 41.132, "lo": -80.723, "pt": "plant", "wb": "Meander Creek Reservoir", "src": "Meander Creek Reservoir, at the MVSD dam/intake west of Mineral Ridge (between Austintown and Mineral Ridge, Mahoning/Trumbull county line)", "cls": "reservoir", "k": "OH7801811#0", "of": "OH7801811" } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1926", "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District formed to develop and manage the Meander Creek Reservoir supply." ], [ "1932", "MVSD began delivering treated water to its member cities." ], [ "1962", "Girard's Water Pollution Control Facility built at 945 South State Street." ], [ "1995", "The city bought the two Girard Lake dams for $2.5 million." ], [ "2002", "Girard completed a CSO Long Term Control Plan proposing to eliminate every combined sewer overflow except the one at the treatment plant." ], [ "2007", "ODNR declared the lower Girard Lake dam unsafe, citing eroded sections, maintenance issues and inadequate spillway capacity." ] ], "treat": "Girard treats no water of its own. It is a satellite distribution system within the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, buying already-finished water from Niles, Youngstown, McDonald and Trumbull County - all MVSD systems drawing from Meander Creek Reservoir and treated at the district plant at 1181…", "press": "Not published. Neither Girard's CCR nor its water department page carries a psi figure, pressure-zone count, or storage description. The earlier draft's claim that the city…", "rate": { "g": 6.94, "n": "Girard bills water and sewer together on a bi-monthly cycle, with sewer charges driven by metered water use. In October 2024 council set the in-city rate at $6.94 per 1,000…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "69.525", "ppb", "80", "2024", "Locational running annual average; individual samples ranged 50 to 89.4 ppb, so single results exceeded the 80 ppb MCL…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "33.425", "ppb", "60", "2024", "Range 18.8-38 ppb." ], [ "Chlorine", "1.663", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2024", "Range 1.39-1.79 ppm." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.99", "ppm", "4", "2024", "Range 0.85-1.15 ppm; also reported against the 2.0 ppm secondary standard." ], [ "Nitrate", "0.37", "ppm", "10", "2024", "Range ND-0.57 ppm." ], [ "Asbestos", "<0.062", "MFL", "7", "2022", "Decay of asbestos-cement water mains; far below the limit. Monitored less than annually." ], [ "Turbidity", "0.13", "NTU", "treatment…", "2024", "100% of monthly samples met the treatment-technique limit." ], [ "Total organic carbon (removal ratio)", "1.66", "ratio", ">1 (treatment…", "2024", "Range 1.20-2.20; a value above 1 means the removal requirement was met." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "0", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2024", "0 of 120 sites above the action level; individual results ranged ND to 7.4 ppb." ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.0572", "ppm", "1.3 (action…", "2024", "0 of 120 sites above the action level; range ND-0.0718 ppm." ] ], "proj": [ [ "Girard WPCF plant improvement project", null, "2020", "completed", "Completed May 2020. Eliminated or minimized use of the secondary-treatment bypass and gave the plant the ability to treat a 12 MGD peak flow through primary…" ], [ "UV disinfection and supplemental peracetic acid upgrades", null, "2020", "completed", "Ohio EPA credits these upgrades with resolving the plant's 2019 and 2020 E. coli effluent violations. Cost not published." ], [ "MVSD Mineral Ridge dam rehabilitation", null, "", "under construction", "MVSD reports dam rehabilitation work at Mineral Ridge; the environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact were finalized in February 2023 and…" ] ], "plan": [ [ "Girard Lake Upper Dam rehabilitation", 713900, "2030", "planned", "ODNR has given the city five years to fix the dams it bought in 1995, or the agency will intervene at greater expense plus penalties. Work includes a new…" ], [ "Repayment of Niles wholesale water arrears", 1600000, "2024-2028", "planned", "Roughly $1.6 million owed to Niles for underbilled wholesale water covering 2020-2023, to be repaid over four years and funded by the 16% (easing to 12% in…" ] ], "stress": "Girard's raw-water risk is entirely MVSD's to manage. The source water assessment treats all surface water as inherently susceptible, and names for the Meander Creek Reservoir protection area: row-crop agricultural runoff, eight animal feedlots, oil and gas wells, failing home and commercial septic systems, runoff from new housing and…", "sew": { "s": "The City of Girard Water Pollution Control Facility at 945 South State Street discharges to Little Girard Creek and then to the Mahoning, Beaver and Ohio rivers (Ohio EPA permit 3PD00010, application OH0025364). Built in 1962 and last upgraded in 2020, it has a 5.0 MGD average design flow and 12 MGD peak hydraulic capacity, and serves…", "st": "About 35.4% of Girard's collection system is combined sanitary-and-storm sewer. One combined sewer overflow remains - CSO 3PD00010003, next to the treatment plant and regulated by the allowable flow to the plant headworks - after the 2002 Long Term Control…" }, "fun": [ "Girard owns no treatment plant and no wells - it buys finished water from four different MVSD members (Niles, Youngstown, McDonald and Trumbull County), all of it originally the same Meander Creek Reservoir water, and…", "Meander Creek Reservoir runs about seven miles long across 2,010 acres with 40 miles of shoreline and holds roughly 11 billion gallons; MVSD owns 5,500 acres around it, enclosed by 35 miles of fence, reforested with…", "A billing dispute turned into a water rate: when Niles worked out that Girard had been undercharged about $1.6 million since 2020, Girard customers absorbed a 16% increase to pay it back - and the rate is supposed to…", "Trihalomethanes in Girard's distribution system averaged 69.5 ppb in 2024 against an 80 ppb limit, with individual samples as high as 89.4 ppb - the tightest margin on any regulated contaminant in this batch.", "Girard still owns the two dams at Girard Lake, bought for $2.5 million in 1995; ODNR called the lower one unsafe in 2007 and the city is now under a five-year ODNR deadline to fix the upper dam, with work targeted for…" ], "src": { "history": [ "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/3PD00010.fs.pdf", "https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2025/11/officials-plan-new-fund-for-girard-lake-dam-repairs/", "https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2024/10/girard-water-cost-to-go-up/" ], "treatment": [ "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Girard-Water-CCR-2024-OH017858-1_WR.pdf", "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/blog/ova_dep/water-department/" ], "pressure": [ "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Girard-Water-CCR-2024-OH017858-1_WR.pdf", "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/blog/ova_dep/water-department/" ], "rates": [ "https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2024/10/girard-water-cost-to-go-up/", "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/blog/ova_dep/water-department/" ], "impurities": [ "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Girard-Water-CCR-2024-OH017858-1_WR.pdf" ], "projects": [ "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/3PD00010.fs.pdf", "https://www.meanderwater.org/" ], "planned": [ "https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2025/11/officials-plan-new-fund-for-girard-lake-dam-repairs/", "https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2024/10/girard-water-cost-to-go-up/" ], "water_stress": [ "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Girard-Water-CCR-2024-OH017858-1_WR.pdf", "https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2025/11/officials-plan-new-fund-for-girard-lake-dam-repairs/" ], "sewer": [ "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/doc/3PD00010.fs.pdf", "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/blog/ova_dep/water-department/" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://cityofgirardoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Girard-Water-CCR-2024-OH017858-1_WR.pdf", "https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2024/10/girard-water-cost-to-go-up/", "https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2025/11/officials-plan-new-fund-for-girard-lake-dam-repairs/" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44420", "share": 0.7769, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44505", "share": 0.076, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44440", "share": 0.0753, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44437", "share": 0.0157, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44425", "share": 0.0073, "dominant": false }, { "zip": "44446", "share": 0.0032, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7801103.jpg", "caption": "Meander Creek Reservoir, Ohio, viewed south from Interstate 80, June 2024", "credit": "Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's C", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7801103/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH7801103.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), \"Girard City · OH7801103\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7801103/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }