{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH7802003", "name": "Mcdonald Village", "county": "Trumbull", "population": 4236, "producer": false, "source_class": "reservoir", "label": "Meander Creek Reservoir + Berlin Reservoir (Mahoning River basin)", "bodies": [ "Meander Creek Reservoir", "Berlin Reservoir" ], "intakes": [], "wells": null, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH7802003", "OH7801811" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1926", "Mahoning Valley Sanitary District (MVSD) formed; it began providing water to its member cities in 1932. Meander Creek Reservoir is 7 miles long, covers 2,010 acres with 40 miles of shoreline and…" ], [ "early 1900s", "McDonald was built as a company town by Carnegie Steel (later U.S. Steel), named for the local McDonald family (Wikipedia)." ], [ "2015", "Ohio EPA recorded a maximum contaminant level violation for McDonald in the July-September 2015 compliance period: 0.088 mg/L against a 0.080 mg/L limit for total trihalomethanes. Returned to…" ], [ "2024", "Village created its Ohio EPA lead service line inventory under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; 0 of 20 lead and 0 of 20 copper samples exceeded action levels in each half of 2025." ], [ "2025-11", "Council passed separate ordinances increasing water rates and sewer rates; the higher bills first appeared in April 2026." ], [ "2026-07-15", "MVSD's plant failed to meet the required disinfectant contact time after an injector failure interrupted the chlorine feed at the primary feed point for about 15 minutes. McDonald distributed the…" ] ], "treat": "McDonald treats none of its own water. It buys finished water through a single consecutive connection from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District (PWSID OH7801811), which treats roughly 30 million gallons a day of raw water drawn from Meander Creek Reservoir and pumps it to Youngstown, Niles and…", "press": "Not published. The 2025 CCR tells customers to phone the water department about pressure but gives no figures, and no psi range appears in any village document located.", "rate": { "g": 6.5, "n": "Water only, from the village's Water Rates Comparison Chart updated 3/11/2026: $6.50 per 1,000 gallons inside the village plus $4.00 in additional fees, i.e. $36.50 for 5,000…", "m": 36.5 }, "imp": [ [ "Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "66.45 (range…", "ug/L", "80 (MCL)", "2025", "Locational running annual average in McDonald's distribution system - the highest single detection, 81.1 ug/L, was…" ], [ "Haloacetic acids (HAA5)", "30.8 (range…", "ug/L", "60 (MCL)", "2025", "Locational running annual average, distribution system." ], [ "PFOS", "15.8 average…", "ng/L", "4.0 (federal…", "2023", "UCMR5 round; McDonald ran 100 tests for 29 PFAS compounds and lithium in January, April, July and October 2023." ], [ "PFHxS", "7.5 average…", "ng/L", "no federal MCL…", "2023", "UCMR5. PFHxA (3.5 ng/L) and PFBS (3.1 ng/L) were also detected." ], [ "Total chlorine", "2.09 (range…", "ppm", "4 (MRDL)", "2025", "Distribution average; MVSD's entry-point chlorine averaged 2.25 ppm (1.87-3.11)." ], [ "Copper", "0.0518 (90th…", "mg/L", "1.3 (action…", "2025", "0 of 20 samples over the action level in each half of the year; lead 90th percentile was below 2 ug/L against a 15 ug/L…" ], [ "Nitrate", "0.33 (range…", "mg/L", "10 (MCL)", "2025", "MVSD entry-point data; turbidity averaged 0.03 NTU and met the standard 100% of the time, and fluoride averaged 1.00…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Lead service line inventory", null, "2024", "completed", "Required by the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; the village posts the current Ohio EPA spreadsheet on its website." ] ], "plan": [ [ "Mineral Ridge Dam rehabilitation (MVSD)", null, "", "under construction", "MVSD's project on the dam that impounds Meander Creek Reservoir, McDonald's sole source. Ohio EPA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact after limited…" ] ], "stress": "Single-source, single-connection dependence: every gallon McDonald sells arrives through one consecutive connection from MVSD's Meander Creek Reservoir plant, and the village is a customer by special contract rather than a member city (Youngstown and Niles are the members). MVSD's own source assessment, quoted in McDonald's CCR, calls…", "sew": { "s": "Village-operated sanitary sewer billed with water; council raised sewer rates by ordinance in November 2025 and the village's own April 2026 notice attributes part of the increase to charges from the City of Niles, which points to Niles handling treatment, though no agreement or plant name is published. Sewer rate figures are not posted…", "st": "Not documented in any village or Ohio EPA source located." }, "fun": [ "MVSD treats about 30 million gallons a day at one plant and pumps it to Youngstown, Niles and McDonald; McDonald, with roughly 4,200 people, is in that company as a special-contract customer rather than a member city.", "MVSD owns 5,500 acres around Meander Creek Reservoir enclosed by 35 miles of fence, replanted with four million evergreens and kept as a restricted fish and game refuge closed to the public.", "McDonald buys MVSD water at about $2.11 per 1,000 gallons and sells it inside the village at $6.50 per 1,000 gallons - and resells it onward to the City of Girard and Weathersfield Township through 30 miles of its own…", "The village was built from scratch as a Carnegie Steel company town rather than growing organically like most Ohio villages (Wikipedia)." ], "src": { "history": [ "http://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH7802003/JSON", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/services/legislation/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EPA-public-notice-8-18-26.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY/PWSID/OH7802003/JSON", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/WATER_SYSTEM/PWSID/OH7802003/JSON" ], "pressure": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf" ], "rates": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/water-rate-comparison-2026.pdf", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/2026/04/14/water-and-sewer-rate-increase/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/offices/water-department/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/services/legislation/" ], "impurities": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH7802003/JSON" ], "projects": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf" ], "planned": [ "http://www.meanderwater.org/project" ], "water_stress": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf", "http://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EPA-public-notice-8-18-26.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/2026/04/14/water-and-sewer-rate-increase/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/services/legislation/" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Consumer-Confidence-report-2025.pdf", "http://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://mcdonaldvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/water-rate-comparison-2026.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44437", "share": 0.9354, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7802003.jpg", "caption": "Berlin Lake (Berlin Reservoir) on the Mahoning River, one of McDonald's water sources", "credit": "United States. 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