MVSD celebrates 75th year


August 25, 2007 at 10:39p.m.

MVSD celebrates 75th year

MINERAL RIDGE — When Josh Maher turns on a faucet at his Niles home, he doesn’t know where the water is coming from.

Jon Souders, of McDonald, believes the source is Meander Reservoir but isn’t so sure.

Souders has the right answer: The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District has been providing water to Youngstown and Niles customers for 75 years this year. In 1944, McDonald became the third member community.

Time has changed the district.

It cost just more than $9 million to dam up Meander Creek and construct a water treatment plant from 1929 to when it opened in 1932.

Now, the district will spend from $16 million to $18 million during the next three years to improve the facility.

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