Water system
Lordstown Village
EPA ID OH7804403 · Trumbull County · 3,515 people served · owned by a local government
Lordstown Village buys its water from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
The system's record
Also connected to Warren City (Mosquito Creek Lake (Mosquito Creek Reservoir)), used as a secondary or emergency supply.
- 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 Mahoning Valley Sanitary District
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 · Lordstown Village
Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 0 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).
EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.
2 violations of any kind logged since 2020, 2 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.
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 2 ZIP codes
Serves
Main water supplier in 1 ZIP code
- 44481 · Lordstown and Warren25% of residents
Also present in 1 more ZIP code
- 44440 · Weathersfield Township and Mineral Ridge0% 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
Lordstown Village buys its water from Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
No other system is on record buying water from Lordstown Village.
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
Lordstown Village's own pages: wkbn.com, meanderwater.org