Water system
Canfield City
EPA ID OH5000503 · Mahoning County · 7,706 people served · owned by a local government
Canfield City buys its water from Youngstown City.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Meander Creek Reservoir, Berlin Reservoir
- Raw intakes
- Meander Creek Reservoir
Berlin Reservoir - EPA ID
- OH7801811
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.
About this area's water
Did you know
- Canfield owns no treatment plant, no reservoir and no wells - it buys every gallon already finished from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District and simply pipes it to customers.
- The reservoir behind Canfield's tap is big: Meander Creek Reservoir is seven miles long, covers 2,010 acres, has 40 miles of shoreline and holds about 11 billion gallons.
- The district that supplies Canfield was formed in 1926 and has been delivering water since 1932.
- In Canfield's 2025 lead sampling, one tap out of 40 came back above the 15 ppb action level in each of two monitoring rounds - 35.9 ppb and 35.3 ppb - even though the citywide 90th percentile was non-detect.
- Canfield charges its outside-city customers about 20% more per 1,000 gallons than residents: $16.64 versus $13.88.
History5
- 1926The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, Canfield's wholesale supplier, was formed; it began delivering water to its member cities in 1932.
- 2009Ohio EPA completed the source water assessment for the MVSD system that supplies Canfield; it was last updated in 2026.
- 2018A water main break on Hickory Hollow (January 25, 2018) triggered a boil-water advisory for affected residents, lifted at 3:00 p.m. on January 27, 2018.
- 2025In two rounds of lead and copper tap sampling, one site out of 40 exceeded the 15 ppb lead action level in each round (35.9 ppb and 35.3 ppb); the 90th percentile stayed non-detect, so there was no…
- 2025A new city water rate schedule (Section 927.01) took effect October 1, 2025.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Canfield treats no water of its own. It buys finished water wholesale from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District (branded Meander Water), based in Mineral Ridge, which draws surface water from Meander Creek Reservoir; Canfield distributes it through city mains and adds no treatment. Canfield's 2025…
Source: canfield.govcanfield.govmeanderwater.org
Water pressure
Not published. Canfield's 2025 CCR directs residents with questions about distribution, service or pressure to John Rapp or Anthony Snovak at the Public Works Department, (330)…
Source: canfield.gov
What it costs
$13.88 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $69 a month for water.
Rate schedule 927.01, effective October 1, 2025. In-city metered water: $13.88 per 1,000 gallons for the first 100,000 gallons in any quarter, $11.21 per 1,000 gallons above that.…
Water quality & impurities10
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine Range 1.4-3.2. Water additive used to control microbes. | 2.03 ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Fluoride Range 0.85-1.10. | 1.00 ppm | 4 | 2025 |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) Range 20.3-30.2. | 24.56 ppb | 60 | 2025 |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Range 42.2-76.8. | 54.8 ppb | 80 | 2025 |
| Nitrate Range from below the detectable limit (<0.10) to 0.56. | 0.33 ppm | 10 | 2025 |
| Total Organic Carbon (removal ratio) Range 1.40-2.10; compliant with TOC removal requirements. | 1.79 ratio | TT (must exceed… | 2025 |
| Turbidity 100% of samples met the limit. | 0.09 NTU | 0.3 in 95% of… | 2025 |
| Lead (90th percentile) Two monitoring periods; the 90th percentile was non-detect in both, but 1 of 40 sites exceeded the action level each… | ND ppb | 15 (AL) | 2025 |
| Copper (90th percentile) First monitoring period; 0 of 40 sites over the action level, range ND-0.638. Second monitoring period 90th percentile… | 0.077 ppm | 1.3 (AL) | 2025 |
| Bromodichloromethane (unregulated) Range 5.1-11.5. Individual disinfection byproduct, no federal standard. | 8.2 ppb | none | 2025 |
Source: canfield.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 3 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).
EPA compliance record · Mahoning Valley Sanitary District (treats the water)
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
Projects & plans1
Planned or needed
- Mineral Ridge Dam rehabilitation (Mahoning Valley Sanitary District) · 2023 · planned
Not a Canfield project: MVSD, Canfield's wholesale supplier, is rehabilitating the Mineral Ridge dam that impounds Meander Creek Reservoir; environmental…
Source: meanderwater.org
Supply stress
Canfield controls no water source of its own. Its entire supply is finished water bought from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, which draws from Meander Creek Reservoir - a seven-mile-long, 2,010-acre impoundment with about 11 billion gallons of storage and 40 miles of shoreline, shared with Youngstown, Niles, McDonald and a string…
Source: canfield.govmeanderwater.org
Sewers
Sanitary
Canfield's Utility Billing Department administers a city sanitary sewer collection system alongside water and stormwater, serving customers inside and outside city limits. Domestic and industrial users are billed $9.68 per 1,000 gallons of metered water use; extra-territorial users pay $10.65 per 1,000 gallons. The city does not publish…
Storm
Canfield runs a stormwater utility billed at $8.00 per month per single-family residence; commercial, industrial and other properties pay $0.00472 per square foot of impervious surface. No flooding history or stormwater capital program was found on the city's…
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Main supplier in 1 ZIP code
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44406 · Canfield Township and Canfield52% of residents
Population-weighted resident shares; a ZIP code can have more than one system on record. Recomputed from each ZIP's own system list, not from the map's cached footprint.
Buys from · Sells to
Canfield City buys its water from Youngstown City, which buys from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
No other system is on record buying water from Canfield City.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 1 ZIP code in all.
Sources
U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey
Notable facts: canfield.gov, meanderwater.org, canfield.gov
History: canfield.gov, canfield.gov, meanderwater.org, canfield.gov
Water quality: canfield.gov
Planned work: meanderwater.org
Water pressure: canfield.gov
Rates: canfield.gov, canfield.gov, canfield.gov
Sewers: canfield.gov, canfield.gov, canfield.gov
Treatment: canfield.gov, canfield.gov, meanderwater.org
Supply stress: canfield.gov, meanderwater.org