Water system
Mcdonald Village
EPA ID OH7802003 · Trumbull County · 4,236 people served · owned by a local government
Mcdonald Village buys its water from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
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
- 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).
Source: mcdonaldvillage.commeanderwater.orgmcdonaldvillage.com
History6
- 1926Mahoning 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 1900sMcDonald was built as a company town by Carnegie Steel (later U.S. Steel), named for the local McDonald family (Wikipedia).
- 2015Ohio 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…
- 2024Village 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.
- 2025-11Council passed separate ordinances increasing water rates and sewer rates; the higher bills first appeared in April 2026.
- 2026-07-15MVSD'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…
Treatment & pressure
How it is treated
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…
Source: mcdonaldvillage.comdata.epa.govdata.epa.gov
Water pressure
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.
Source: mcdonaldvillage.com
What it costs
$6.50 per 1,000 gallons
Typical household bill about $37 a month for water.
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…
Source: mcdonaldvillage.commcdonaldvillage.commcdonaldvillage.com
Water quality & impurities7
| Contaminant | Level | Limit | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) Locational running annual average in McDonald's distribution system - the highest single detection, 81.1 ug/L, was… | 66.45 (range… ug/L | 80 (MCL) | 2025 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) Locational running annual average, distribution system. | 30.8 (range… ug/L | 60 (MCL) | 2025 |
| PFOS UCMR5 round; McDonald ran 100 tests for 29 PFAS compounds and lithium in January, April, July and October 2023. | 15.8 average… ng/L | 4.0 (federal… | 2023 |
| PFHxS UCMR5. PFHxA (3.5 ng/L) and PFBS (3.1 ng/L) were also detected. | 7.5 average… ng/L | no federal MCL… | 2023 |
| Total chlorine Distribution average; MVSD's entry-point chlorine averaged 2.25 ppm (1.87-3.11). | 2.09 (range… ppm | 4 (MRDL) | 2025 |
| Copper 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… | 0.0518 (90th… mg/L | 1.3 (action… | 2025 |
| Nitrate MVSD entry-point data; turbidity averaged 0.03 NTU and met the standard 100% of the time, and fluoride averaged 1.00… | 0.33 (range… mg/L | 10 (MCL) | 2025 |
Source: mcdonaldvillage.comdata.epa.gov
EPA compliance record
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA health-based violations since 2015:
- 2015Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.088 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance
1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 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 & plans2
Recent and current work
- Lead service line inventory · 2024 · completed
Required by the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; the village posts the current Ohio EPA spreadsheet on its website.
Source: mcdonaldvillage.com
Planned or needed
- Mineral Ridge Dam rehabilitation (MVSD) · 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…
Source: meanderwater.org
Supply 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…
Source: mcdonaldvillage.commeanderwater.orgmcdonaldvillage.com
Sewers
Sanitary
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…
Storm
Not documented in any village or Ohio EPA source located.
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
- 44437 · Mcdonald and Mc Donald94% 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
Mcdonald Village buys its water from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
No other system is on record buying water from Mcdonald Village.
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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: mcdonaldvillage.com, meanderwater.org, mcdonaldvillage.com, en.wikipedia.org
History: meanderwater.org, data.epa.gov, mcdonaldvillage.com, mcdonaldvillage.com
Water quality: mcdonaldvillage.com, data.epa.gov
Planned work: meanderwater.org
Water pressure: mcdonaldvillage.com
Capital projects: mcdonaldvillage.com
Rates: mcdonaldvillage.com, mcdonaldvillage.com, mcdonaldvillage.com, mcdonaldvillage.com
Sewers: mcdonaldvillage.com, mcdonaldvillage.com
Treatment: mcdonaldvillage.com, data.epa.gov, data.epa.gov
Supply stress: mcdonaldvillage.com, meanderwater.org, mcdonaldvillage.com