TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO · 26 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
McDonald sits in the middle of the Trumbull County well record. Its median well ties for 12th of 23 towns and lands just under the county's 96 feet, with rock at a typical 24 feet. Flow is the figure to plan around: half the local logs record 12 gallons a minute or less, a quarter 7 or less.
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WHAT WE DO IN MCDONALD
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.
For homes on village water, the village's report is the first stop. For a private well, the first stop is a sample. Our water test, done on site or through a certified lab, shows whether any treatment is needed at all.
We drill residential and agricultural wells around McDonald, with Ohio EPA permit assistance. Local logs reach rock at a median of 24 feet, and Devonian to Mississippian rock, the Maxville Limestone with the Rushville, Logan and Cuyahoga Formations, is mapped under the town.
Size the pump to what the well gives rather than what the house might want. With water 14 to 36 feet down in the middle half of 954 logs, a submersible suits most wells, and a larger pressure tank helps where yield is low.
WELLS AROUND MCDONALD
The 999 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of McDonald, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 72–128 ft
middle half 7–20 gpm
middle half 15–38 ft
954 wells; middle half 14–36 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Nothing about depth sets McDonald apart. In 999 local logs the middle half of wells stop between 72 and 128 feet, a band close to the county's, whose domestic wells run 73 to 125 in the middle half. The figure that needs planning is yield: in 855 logs, a quarter record 7 gallons a minute or less, and only the top quarter reach 20 or more.
A slower well still serves a household when the system is built around it. The pump is matched to the well's recovery rather than to the number of bathrooms, and a larger pressure tank helps with short peaks in demand. The well pumps page covers the options, and residential drilling the drilling itself.
EPA maps the town center inside the McDonald Village system (OH7802003). It is owned by the local government and serves about 4,236 people through 1,780 connections, with 2 storage tanks. It has no wells or intakes of its own. The village buys surface water from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, recorded as partially treated by the seller, and EPA lists no treatment steps added by the village.
The lead record is simple. In eleven rounds from 2017 to 2025, the 90th percentile was recorded as 0 mg/L each time, under the 0.015 mg/L action level. That describes the system's sampled taps. Your own tap is a separate question for a water test at the sink, and reverse osmosis handles lead if it turns up.
WHY MCDONALD CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“We bought a new home November 1st, 2024 and low and behold it had a collapsed well. After several quotes, we chose Chatfield drilling, and we’re glad we did! Matt & his team arrived quickly to assess the situation, and formulate a plan to get the H2O flowing again. Even through the holidays, they did not waiver. Eric their driller worked hard in the brutal NE Ohio cold to pound a well for us. We are beyond pleased, and have fantastic water!”
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 26 minutes and 18 miles by road from McDonald. Service calls for McDonald are scheduled from there.
McDonald and the municipalities around it: Girard, Weathersfield Township, Niles, Liberty Township, Austintown Township, Howland Township, Vienna Township, Youngstown, Lordstown, Warren. Beyond those, the rest of the 23 Trumbull County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 999 domestic wells within 5 miles of McDonald: the median is 95 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 72 and 128 feet. The median well was logged at 12 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 24 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
At least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, and longer where rock sits lower, because it is seated in rock. Of the 909 local logs that record the top of rock, a quarter find it within 15 feet and three in four within 38. On the deeper-rock wells the exact length is only known at the rig, when the drill leaves the loose ground and enters solid rock.
EPA's record for the village doesn't say. It lists no treatment steps of the village's own, and it doesn't say what the sanitary district adds. The village's water report should answer it, and a home test can tell the two apart. If either bothers you, CityLux removes both chlorine and chloramine for the whole house.
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YOUR NEXT STEP
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