Water system
Hubbard City
EPA ID OH7801415 · Trumbull County · 8,518 people served · owned by a local government
Hubbard City buys its water from Aqua Ohio - Masury.
The system's record
- Water bodies
- Shenango River, Shenango River Lake
- Raw intakes
- Shenango River
- Serves
- 48,000 people · Pennsylvania
- EPA ID
- PA6430054
About this area's water
Did you know
- Hubbard hasn't treated its own drinking water since 1994 — every gallon is bought wholesale and piped in from a plant on the Shenango River in Pennsylvania.
- The 1994 wholesale contract was signed with Consumer's Pennsylvania Water Company; Aqua Pennsylvania only inherited it later, and federal records still list Aqua Ohio - Masury as the seller Hubbard actually buys from.
- Aqua finished a $35 million rebuild of the Shenango Valley plant in 2026, adding a 700,000-gallon raw-water basin — an upgrade Hubbard's customers drink from without owning a foot of it.
- Federal records still carry a treatment plant facility for Hubbard, but the city's own water source has been marked inactive since Halloween 2006.
History5
- 1994Hubbard's North Main Street water treatment plant processed its last water. In late 1994 the city signed a wholesale contract to buy treated water from Consumer's Pennsylvania Water Company — the…
- 2006Hubbard's remaining local source of record (facility 'Hubbard City P01') was deactivated in federal SDWIS on October 31.
- 2024Ohio EPA awarded Hubbard direct assistance for lead service line inventory development and service line material determination.
- 2025Federal records show a violation over the yearly notice owed to customers whose service line is lead or may be lead, with a compliance period beginning 7/2/2025; return to compliance was recorded 11/11/2025.
- 2026Aqua Pennsylvania completed a $35 million improvement of the Shenango Valley Water Treatment Plant that supplies the area, adding a 700,000-gallon raw water basin to pre-treat Shenango River water.
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
Hubbard treats none of its own water. Federal SDWIS lists a permanent purchased surface-water connection named 'CC From Aqua PA - Shenango,' whose seller of record is AQUA OHIO - MASURY (PWSID OH7802711); that system is in turn fed from Aqua Pennsylvania's Shenango Valley plant on the Shenango…
Source: data.epa.govdata.epa.govaquawater.com
Water pressure
Not published.
What it costs
$5.83 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $51 a month for water.
Water only — these are from the city's Water Rates page, not its separate Wastewater Rates page. Inside the corporation limit: $21.90 per user account per month plus $4.36 per 100…
Source: cityofhubbard-oh.gov
Water quality & impurities1
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (90th percentile) Most recent 90th-percentile result in federal SDWIS (0.0043 mg/L); the sampling period end date is not carried in the… | 4.3 ppb | 15 ppb (action… |
Source: data.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 4.3 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2017Haloacetic acids (HAA5) · above the legal limit on average · measured 0.067 MG/L (limit 0.06 MG/L) · returned to compliance
3 violations of any kind logged since 2020: 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
Projects & plans2
Recent and current work
- Lead service line inventory and material determination (Arcadis) · 2024-2027 · under construction
Ohio EPA awarded direct assistance in 2024 and the city applied for further material-determination funding in 2025. Arcadis is performing customer canvassing… - Wastewater treatment plant upgrade · $17 million · 2021
A $17 million two-year upgrade of the Water Pollution Control Facility began in February 2021 and included stormwater management and collection-system work.…
Source: tribtoday.comdam.assets.ohio.gov
Supply stress
Hubbard has no water source of its own — its local source was formally deactivated in 2006 — and depends on a single purchased surface-water connection that runs back across the state line to Aqua Pennsylvania's Shenango River plant, with Aqua Ohio - Masury as the seller of record. That is a two-utility, two-state dependency for every…
Sewers
Sanitary
Hubbard operates its own Water Pollution Control Facility, originally built in 1962 and rated at about 1.3 MGD, using an oxidation-ditch activated-sludge process followed by secondary clarification and disinfection, discharging to Little Yankee Run under Ohio EPA NPDES permit 3IM00002. A $17 million two-year upgrade began in February…
Storm
Not documented in retrievable sources, though the 2021 wastewater plant upgrade was reported to include stormwater management and collection-system work.
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 2 ZIP codes
- 44425 · Hubbard66% of residents
- 44403 · Brookfield Township and Brookfield15% 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
Hubbard City buys its water from Aqua Ohio - Masury, which buys from Aqua Pennsylvania - Shenango Valley (Sharon, PA).
No other system is on record buying water from Hubbard City.
What the records show about Hubbard City
Who runs it
EPA's record describes Hubbard City as owned by a local government. It has 3,919 service connections and serves 8,518 people.
EPA classes it as a community water system, one that serves the same residents all year.
Its office telephone on EPA's record is 330-207-7747.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), water system record.
How the water is treated
EPA's treatment table registers Hubbard City with no treatment: the water is distributed as drawn.
Aqua Pennsylvania - Shenango Valley (Sharon, PA), which supplies it, is not in EPA's Ohio treatment table (it may be an out-of-state seller).
The list is what each system registered with EPA for treatment plants EPA still shows as active, and it can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Violations
EPA counts 1 health-based violation for Hubbard City since 2015. Health-based means a contaminant above its legal limit or a required treatment step not carried out. It falls into 1 separate problem (one contaminant or rule in one year); the table lists it.
EPA logs 3 violations of any kind since 2020: 3 for a report, record or notice that was missing, late or incomplete (the yearly water quality report, a public notice, lead line records).
| Year | Contaminant or rule | Kind | Measured | Limit | Status in EPA's record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | above the legal limit on average | 0.067 mg/L | 0.06 mg/L | returned to compliance |
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) violation records: health-based violations with compliance periods beginning in 2015 or later, all violations from 2020 or later (EPA Envirofacts, pulled September 2026).
Lead and copper at the tap
In the sampling period ending December 2025, the 90th-percentile lead result at Hubbard City was 4.3 ppb, under both the current 15 ppb action level and the 10 ppb level that applies from 2027.
EPA has 9 sampling periods on file for Hubbard City since 2016, the first ending in 2016; no period was above 10 ppb.
Every water system has to inventory its service lines, the pipes from the main to each building. In the inventory Hubbard City sent EPA, 3,832 lines are counted.
| Material | Lines |
|---|---|
| Lead | 31 |
| Galvanized, needing replacement | 80 |
| Unknown material | 3,161 |
| Not lead | 560 |
| All lines | 3,832 |
Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder. The 90th-percentile result is the level nine in ten of the sampled homes were at or below. Lead comes mostly from service lines and house plumbing, not the source water, so a low result for the system does not clear an old house.
EPA's dashboard status for this inventory: reported all required service line types.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) lead and copper 90th-percentile results (EPA Envirofacts), sampling periods ending 2016 or later; EPA's service line inventory dashboard, Ohio's 2026 Q2 submission.
PFAS
EPA's fifth national round of testing (UCMR 5) took 4 samples of the water entering the pipes of Hubbard City in 2023 and measured 29 PFAS.
PFOA and PFOS were not detected, against a federal limit of 4 ng/L each.
The highest PFAS result was PFBA 5.5 ng/L.
| Compound | Highest result | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| PFOA | not detected | 4 ng/L |
| PFOS | not detected | 4 ng/L |
PFAS are the 'forever chemicals' from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026); Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling, 2019 to 2021, and its sampling status map.
Disinfection byproducts
Chlorine that disinfects water also reacts with organic matter to form byproducts. Two groups have federal limits: total trihalomethanes (TTHM, 80 µg/L) and five haloacetic acids (HAA5, 60 µg/L), judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site.
For TTHM, the average of Hubbard City's samples in 2019, the last year it was sampled, was 41.6 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 55.7 µg/L and the highest single sample was 96.4 µg/L, from 60 samples taken from 2012 to 2019.
For HAA5, the average in the last year sampled was 36.2 µg/L. The worst yearly average was 50.8 µg/L and the highest single sample was 108 µg/L, from 60 samples.
| Byproduct | Limit | Latest yearly average | Worst yearly average | Highest sample | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | 80 µg/L | 41.6 µg/L (2019) | 55.7 µg/L | 96.4 µg/L | 60 |
| HAA5 | 60 µg/L | 36.2 µg/L | 50.8 µg/L | 108 µg/L | 60 |
A yearly average of 0 means nothing was detected in that year's samples. EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system samples (non-detects counted as zero).
Bacteria in the pipes
From 2012 to 2019, 5 of 1,004 routine total coliform samples taken in the distribution system at Hubbard City tested positive (0.5%); in 2019, the last year on file, 3 of 120 did. E. coli was never found in the 5 samples tested for it.
A positive coliform test is a warning sign, not a violation by itself. E. coli is a sign that human or animal waste may have reached the water. Coliform counts are routine samples only; E. coli counts include repeat samples.
Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, distribution-system presence/absence tests for total coliform and E. coli.
Fluoride
The Ohio Department of Health's report to the CDC (My Water's Fluoride) says Hubbard City buys its water from Aqua Ohio - Masury, a system that adjusts the fluoride level to the recommended level for preventing tooth decay.
EPA's treatment table lists no fluoridation step at Hubbard City.
The recommended level for preventing tooth decay is 0.7 mg/L; the federal limit is 4 mg/L. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.
Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched September 2026); EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) treatment table; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, entry-point fluoride samples.
Lithium
Lithium was not detected in 4 UCMR 5 samples at Hubbard City, last sampled in 2023 (the method reports from 9 µg/L).
Lithium is not regulated. EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.
Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026), samples from 2023 to 2025.
Algal toxins
Ohio EPA tests for microcystin, a toxin that harmful algal blooms can release, in raw water at the intake and in treated water.
No raw-water samples are on file for Hubbard City; it has no Ohio intake and only its treated (finished) water was tested.
Microcystin was never detected in treated water (411 samples).
In all, 411 samples from 2016 to 2026, the latest on August 24, 2026.
| Water | Samples | Detections | Highest result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treated water | 411 | 0 | not detected |
The ten-day advisory levels for treated water are 0.3 µg/L for children under six and 1.6 µg/L for everyone else. Any detection at the intake triggers more frequent testing until two clean weeks.
Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring, 2016 to present (HAB data, fetched September 2026).
Water and sewer bills
Ohio EPA's 2023 rate survey puts the water bill at Hubbard City for a household using 5,000 gallons a month at $486 a year, about $41 a month.
| Use | Water, per year | Sewer, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500 gallons a month | $347 | not on file |
| 5,000 gallons a month | $486 | not on file |
| 8,000 gallons a month | $653 | not on file |
The survey lists it as “Hubbard”. These are inside-city rates and annual bills at the use shown.
Source: Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State University, May 2025).
How well the service area is mapped
EPA estimated the service area of Hubbard City with a computer model rather than drawing it from the utility's map, so its edges are approximate.
Counting the people who live in the ZIP codes it overlaps, this atlas estimates 9,936 residents are inside the boundary, 117% of the 8,518 people Hubbard City reports serving.
The resident count is an estimate from 2020 Census ZIP-code populations, not a count of customers.
Source: EPA Service Area Boundaries; resident estimate by this atlas from ZIP-code overlap.
Photograph
On the map
Show this system's territory on the map — 2 ZIP codes 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
EPA's own record for this system: Enforcement and Compliance History report for OH7801415 (EPA ECHO).
Notable facts: data.epa.gov, aquawater.com, cityofhubbard-oh.gov
History: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, tribtoday.com, aquawater.com
Water quality: data.epa.gov
Capital projects: tribtoday.com, dam.assets.ohio.gov
Rates: cityofhubbard-oh.gov
Sewers: dam.assets.ohio.gov, cityofhubbard-oh.gov
Treatment: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, aquawater.com, businessjournaldaily.com
Supply stress: data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov, sharonherald.com
