Water system
Mahoning Valley Sanitary District
EPA ID OH7801811 · Trumbull County · owned by a local government
Mahoning Valley Sanitary District treats its own water from Meander Creek Reservoir + Berlin Reservoir (Mahoning River basin).
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
- 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…
Source: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
History5
- 1925Mahoning 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…
- 1927District purchased initial reservoir land, including from landowner Josiah Kirkpatrick (namesake of Kirk Road).
- 1929-1932Meander Creek Reservoir and its earthen dam were constructed at a cost of nearly $9.2 million.
- 1932Dam completed and MVSD began supplying treated water to member cities Youngstown and Niles.
- 1944Village of McDonald added as the district's third member community.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
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…
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Water pressure
Not published; no primary source (CCR, engineering report, or news account) giving system pressure was found in an accessible source.
What it costs
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.…
Water quality & impurities
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.
Supply 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…
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Sewers
Sanitary
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.
Storm
Not applicable; MVSD is a water-supply-only district with no stormwater role found in any source.
Sourcesverified
Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.
Present in 0 ZIP codes
Serves
No ZIP code has Mahoning Valley Sanitary District on record as its main water supplier.
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
Mahoning Valley Sanitary District does not buy water from another system on record; it treats its own source water.
4 systems on record buy water from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District: Lordstown Village, Mcdonald Village, Niles City, Youngstown City.
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On the map
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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
Mahoning Valley Sanitary District's own pages: en.wikipedia.org
Notable facts: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
History: en.wikipedia.org
Treatment: en.wikipedia.org
Supply stress: en.wikipedia.org