COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO · 56 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
East Palestine’s village water comes from its own ground: EPA lists five active wells and one treatment plant, and the system takes out manganese and iron before the water reaches the mains. Around the village, private wells are modest producers, with half yielding 10 gallons per minute or less.
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WHAT WE DO IN EAST PALESTINE
Whether you’re on a private well or city water, the same crew handles the water source, the pressure, and what comes out of the tap.
Village water carries chlorine, the plant’s disinfectant, and has fluoride added. CityLux removes the chlorine house-wide if you want it gone. On a private well, iron and manganese are the owner’s to handle, and a water test shows how much is there.
Local logs center on 125 feet, tied for 13th of 21 Columbiana County towns, with the middle half from 85 to 200. Bedrock sits a median 28 feet down, so casing runs through that much soil before it seats in rock.
A quarter of the wells around East Palestine give 5 gallons per minute or less. Water rests a median 47 feet down, which leaves room to hang a submersible below it; on the slower wells, tank size matters as much as the pump.
WELLS AROUND EAST PALESTINE
The 1,221 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of East Palestine, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 85–200 ft
middle half 5–20 gpm
middle half 13–50 ft
1,110 wells; middle half 30–80 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
EPA’s record for East Palestine's village system lists a groundwater system serving about 4,761 people through 2,100 connections, with five active wells, one treatment plant and three storage tanks. The listed treatment steps are chlorine before and after treatment, permanganate and greensand filtration to remove manganese and iron, granular activated carbon for organics, and fluoride. Homes on it get their water report from the village.
EPA records the lead 90th percentile as 0 mg/L for the 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 rounds, and as 0.00293 mg/L for 2023, all under the 0.015 mg/L action level. That is a village-wide measure, and your own tap can differ. If a home test finds lead, reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the usual answer.
For homes on their own wells, the 1,048 local logs with a yield put the median at 10 gallons per minute. A quarter give 5 or less, and a quarter 20 or more. Depth is moderate, 125 feet at the median against the county’s 135, and water rests a median 47 feet down.
On the slower wells, the pump is matched to what the well gives back, and a pressure tank sized to the house cuts down on pump starts. A private well also has no plant ahead of it, so any iron or manganese in the water is the owner’s to deal with. Iron removal covers the FerronX Iron System, which handles both.
WATER IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Columbiana County, taken 1986–2016, 86% of wells were hard or very hard, 79% carried iron above the staining line, 86% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Columbiana County page; your own well gets its own test.
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We send the same crews to each of these towns. If you’re between towns, pick the closest one; the service doesn’t change.
A LITTLE CLARITY
Our Cortland office (7115 Hoagland Blackstub Rd. Unit C, Cortland, OH 44410) is about 56 minutes and 42 miles by road from East Palestine. Service calls for East Palestine are scheduled from there.
East Palestine and the municipalities around it: Unity Township, Darlington Township, New Waterford, Enon Valley, Little Beaver Township, Rogers, Darlington, South Beaver Township, S.N.P.J., New Galilee. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Columbiana County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,221 domestic wells within 5 miles of East Palestine: the median is 125 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 85 and 200 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 28 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA lists permanganate with greensand filtration for manganese and iron removal: the permanganate turns the dissolved metals into particles the greensand filter catches, so they don’t reach fixtures as stains. Granular activated carbon is listed for organics removal. The plant handles iron and manganese for village homes; on a private well that has them, that job falls to a FerronX Iron System at the well.
Yes. The plant lists gaseous chlorination before and after treatment, and no chloramine step, so village water carries a chlorine residual through the mains to your faucet; that is how disinfection is kept up in the pipes. If the taste or smell bothers you, CityLux removes chlorine for the whole house at the main line.
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