{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH7801811", "name": "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District", "county": "Trumbull", "population": null, "producer": true, "source_class": "reservoir", "label": "Meander Creek Reservoir + Berlin Reservoir (Mahoning River basin)", "bodies": [ "Meander Creek Reservoir", "Berlin Reservoir" ], "intakes": [ "Meander Creek Reservoir", "Berlin Reservoir" ], "wells": 0, "aquifer": "", "notes": "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District operates two impounding reservoirs on tributaries of the Mahoning River (Meander Creek and the Mahoning River at Berlin) and supplies treated water wholesale to Youngstown-area systems; no wells.", "urls": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahoning_Valley_Sanitary_District" ], "chain": [ "OH7801811" ], "plants": [ { "n": "Meander Water Treatment Plant", "a": "1181 Ohltown McDonald Rd, Mineral Ridge, OH 44440 (Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County) - the district's published…", "la": 41.1505, "lo": -80.7751, "pt": "plant", "wb": "Meander Creek Reservoir", "src": "Meander Creek Reservoir + Berlin Reservoir (Mahoning River basin)", "cls": "reservoir", "in": [ { "n": "Meander Creek Reservoir intake", "wb": "Meander Creek Reservoir (impoundment of Meander Creek, a Mahoning River tributary)", "role": "primary", "src": "The district's only day-to-day source: an intake in Meander Creek Reservoir beside the 60 MGD plant at the Mineral Ridge dam, serving Youngstown, Niles and McDonald", "la": 41.1505, "lo": -80.7751, "pt": "approximate" }, { "n": "Berlin Reservoir intake", "wb": "Berlin Reservoir / Berlin Lake (Mahoning River, Army Corps flood-control lake near Deerfield and Berlin Center)", "role": "backup", "src": "A deep intake in Berlin Lake feeding a 1950s-era pipeline that empties into Meander Creek in Ellsworth Township above Meander Reservoir; used only to top up Meander during drought, and a pipe straight to the plant is still only a proposal", "la": 41.0037, "lo": -81.0165, "pt": "approximate" } ] } ], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1925", "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District formally established with Youngstown and Niles as founding member cities (an initial petitioning effort dates to 1920); corrected from a drafted 1926 formation date…" ], [ "1927", "District purchased initial reservoir land, including from landowner Josiah Kirkpatrick (namesake of Kirk Road)." ], [ "1929-1932", "Meander Creek Reservoir and its earthen dam were constructed at a cost of nearly $9.2 million." ], [ "1932", "Dam completed and MVSD began supplying treated water to member cities Youngstown and Niles." ], [ "1944", "Village of McDonald added as the district's third member community." ] ], "treat": "Surface water drawn from Meander Creek Reservoir is treated at the Meander Water Treatment Plant near Mineral Ridge in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County. MVSD is a wholesale treated-water supplier to Youngstown, Niles, and McDonald and does not serve retail customers directly. No source…", "press": "Not published; no primary source (CCR, engineering report, or news account) giving system pressure was found in an accessible source.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "MVSD sells treated water wholesale to its member/contract communities (Youngstown, Niles, McDonald); it does not publish a residential per-1,000-gallon rate to end customers.…", "m": null }, "imp": [], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "Supply depends on a single impoundment, Meander Creek Reservoir, on a Mahoning River tributary; reservoirs of this type in the region face seasonal algae and sedimentation pressure in general, but no specific documented harmful-algal-bloom, PFAS, or capacity-shortfall event tied to Meander Creek Reservoir was found in an accessible…", "sew": { "s": "MVSD supplies only treated drinking water; it does not operate sanitary sewers. Wastewater service in its member communities (Youngstown, Niles, McDonald) is handled by those cities' own sewer utilities, which are not documented here.", "st": "Not applicable; MVSD is a water-supply-only district with no stormwater role found in any source." }, "fun": [ "Meander Creek Reservoir covers about 2,010 acres and holds up to roughly 62,000 acre-feet behind a 60-foot-high, 3,480-foot-long earthen dam built 1929-1932.", "Hunting, boating, and fishing are prohibited on Meander Creek Reservoir because it is a drinking-water source.", "MVSD purchased the historic Judge William Shaw Anderson House (also called the Strock Stone House) in 1929 from the judge's children; it served as the district's chief engineer's residence until 1985 and is now jointly…" ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir" ], "treatment": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir" ], "water_stress": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_William_Shaw_Anderson_House" ] } }, "zips_served": [], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7801811.jpg", "caption": "Meander Creek Reservoir, one of two impoundments supplying the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District", "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/OH7801811/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH7801811.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), \"Mahoning Valley Sanitary District · OH7801811\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7801811/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }