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This reservoir is the ultimate source for the water resold to Mineral…" ], [ "2026", "On July 15, 2026 an injector failure interrupted the chlorine feed at MVSD's primary feed point for about 15 minutes, so treated water did not meet the minimum disinfectant contact time. Trumbull…" ] ], "treat": "Mineral Ridge buys finished water; it treats none of its own. EPA's facility inventory shows two active consecutive connections, from Niles City PWS (OH7802403) and Youngstown City PWS (OH5002303), both surface water, and both of those cities draw from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District's…", "press": "No psi figure is published. The local system is served by the three-pump Main Street pump station and a 0.3-million-gallon elevated tank. The earlier draft's '19 miles of 6-12…", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "No rate could be substantiated. The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer's billing page states only that rates 'have been established by the Trumbull County Board of Commissioners…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "non-detect", "ppb", "15 (action…", "2025", "EPA's lead and copper rule dataset records a 90th-percentile lead of zero for both 2025 monitoring periods…" ] ], "proj": [ [ "Water service line survey", null, "", "unknown", "The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer posts a 'Water Service Line Survey' PDF on its site. Its contents were not read for this check, so the draft's claim that…" ] ], "plan": [], "stress": "Mineral Ridge sits at the end of a resale chain and owns no source of its own: the county district buys from Niles and Youngstown, which both buy from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, which draws from Meander Creek Reservoir. That leaves it exposed to upstream treatment problems as much as to bulk-rate changes - the July 2026…", "sew": { "s": "The publicly owned plant serving the Mineral Ridge area is the Meander WPCF, NPDES permit OH0045721, at 3264 State Route 46, Mineral Ridge, Trumbull County - a major individual NPDES permit with a 4 MGD design flow and both pretreatment and biosolids programs. The earlier draft placed a county wastewater plant at 1193 Salt Springs Road…", "st": "Not documented. No storm sewer arrangement for Mineral Ridge appears in any reachable county source." }, "fun": [ "Mineral Ridge's water passes through two resellers before it reaches a tap: the county district buys from Niles and Youngstown, and both of those cities buy the same water from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.", "The dam holding back Meander Creek Reservoir is itself named the Mineral Ridge Dam - an earthen structure finished in 1932, 60 feet high and 3,480 feet long at its crest, impounding about 11 billion gallons (62,000…", "MVSD owns 5,500 acres around the reservoir, enclosed by 35 miles of fence and reforested with four million evergreens, to keep its watershed clean.", "The community's namesake industry was iron, not water: black band ore found beneath its coal seams in the 1850s was sold nationally as 'American Scotch Pig.'", "Mineral Ridge gave up its village charter in 1917 and has been unincorporated ever since, yet the water system still carries its name - and now spans two counties, Trumbull and Mahoning." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_Ridge,_Ohio", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir", "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer/Public%20Notices/PUBLIC%20NOTICE%20FINAL%20MINERAL%20RIDGE.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/water_system_facility/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON/rows/0:40", "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer/Public%20Notices/PUBLIC%20NOTICE%20FINAL%20MINERAL%20RIDGE.pdf", "https://www.meanderwater.org/" ], "pressure": [ "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/water_system_facility/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON/rows/0:40", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/water_system/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON" ], "rates": [ "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer/se_billing.html" ], "impurities": [ "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/lcr_sample_result/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON/rows/0:60", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/lcr_sample/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON/rows/0:30" ], "projects": [ "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir", "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer/Public%20Notices/PUBLIC%20NOTICE%20FINAL%20MINERAL%20RIDGE.pdf", "https://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Sanitary-Engineer/se_billing.html" ], "sewer": [ "https://echodata.epa.gov/echo/cwa_rest_services.get_facilities?output=JSON&p_st=OH&p_ct=MINERAL%20RIDGE", "https://echodata.epa.gov/echo/dfr_rest_services.get_dfr?p_id=OH0045721&output=JSON" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_Creek_Reservoir", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_Ridge,_Ohio", "https://www.meanderwater.org/", "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/water_system_facility/pwsid/OH7803503/JSON/rows/0:40" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44440", "share": 0.6794, "dominant": true }, { "zip": "44515", "share": 0.0076, "dominant": false } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH7803503.jpg", "caption": "Meander Creek Reservoir, the Mahoning River basin source supplying the Niles/Youngstown system serving Mineral Ridge", "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/OH7803503/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH7803503.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), \"Trumbull Co. - Mineral Ridge · OH7803503\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH7803503/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }