COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO · 47 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Leetonia’s village water is surface water bought from Salem City, which EPA’s record marks as filtered, with chlorine added by the village system. Its 2025 lead sampling round came in over EPA’s action level, so a test at your own tap is worth having. Around the village, private wells sit on the shallower side for the county, at a median 120 feet.
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WHAT WE DO IN LEETONIA
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.
On village water, CityLux removes the chlorine house-wide, and a reverse osmosis unit at the kitchen sink deals with lead if a home test finds it. On a private well, Chatfield starts with a water test.
Casing here runs through a median 35 feet of soil before it seats in rock. Depth is on the shallow side: the 1,946 local logs put the median at 120 feet, tied for 16th of 21 county towns, and three in four stopped by 165.
Water rests a median 40 feet below ground, within 22 feet in a quarter of wells, and half the logs yield 15 gallons per minute or more. That’s comfortable ground for a submersible and a pressure tank sized to the house.
WELLS AROUND LEETONIA
The 1,946 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Leetonia, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 85–165 ft
middle half 10–25 gpm
middle half 20–58 ft
1,755 wells; middle half 22–60 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
EPA lists Leetonia's village system as a purchased surface water system serving about 1,833 people through 810 connections, with two storage tanks. It buys from Salem City, which the record marks as filtered, and the one treatment step listed for the village itself is chlorine. Homes on it get their water report from the village.
For lead, every sampling round from 2016 through 2024 was under the 0.015 mg/L action level. The 2025 round was over it, at 0.0164 mg/L. That figure is measured across the village’s taps, and yours can differ. A home water test shows where your tap stands, and reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the usual answer if it finds lead.
For homes on wells, the local logs put the median well at 120 feet, below the county’s 135 and shallower than most Columbiana County towns. Rock comes in at a median 35 feet, between 20 and 58 in the middle half, so casing is a moderate run. The Allegheny and Pottsville Groups are mapped under the town.
On yield, half the wells give 15 gallons per minute or more and a quarter at least 25, with water resting a median 40 feet down. That suits a submersible pump sized to the house rather than to a slow well, and residential well drilling covers a new well from the first foot to the yield test.
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.
WHY LEETONIA CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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NEARBY
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 47 minutes and 38 miles by road from Leetonia. Service calls for Leetonia are scheduled from there.
Leetonia and the municipalities around it: Washingtonville, Fairfield Township, Columbiana, Green Township, Salem, Beaver Township, Lisbon, New Waterford, Rogers. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Columbiana County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,946 domestic wells within 5 miles of Leetonia: the median is 120 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 85 and 165 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 35 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
It means the village’s 90th-percentile lead figure for that round, 0.0164 mg/L, was over EPA’s 0.015 mg/L action level. It’s a system-wide measure, and a single home’s tap can read higher or lower depending on its plumbing. A test at your own tap gives your number. If that shows lead, reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the common fix.
Most likely. USGS sampling across Columbiana County found 86% of wells hard or very hard, at a median of 16.7 grains per gallon, and iron above the staining line in most. Those are county figures from 14 wells, so a water test at your own well gives the numbers to choose a softener or iron filter by.
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