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By GUY VOGRIN
Staff writer
WARREN -- Trumbull County commissioners on Wednesday signed off on a funding plan for a Warren Township sanitary sewer project that Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough scored on the top of the list of about 50 Mahoning Valley projects considered for grants by the Ohio Public Works Commission.
The state agency released some $750,000 for the design phase of the Pendleton / Gillmer Road improvement project. Newbrough said this is the second part of the Meadowbrook Drive project that is mandated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The project's total cost is estimated at $20 million over five phases, Newbrough said.
The Meadowbrook project covers an area of Warren Township along the Mahoning River and requires a 250,000-gallon-per-day package treatment plant -- a small sewage processing plant -- to treat the sewage, which increases the cost of the project.
The first phase of the project would cover parts of North Leavitt Road NW and Meadowbrook Drive, starting with 70 initial connections along the path and with the option to add 575 total connections. Construction of the first phase should begin soon, Newbrough said.
The second phase encompasses residents of Pendleton and Gilmer roads, with funding there to include a $250,00 federal Applalchia Regional Commission Grant and another $520,000 in Community Development Block Grants. Some $4.7 million of phse two will be financed through a zero percent Ohio EPA loan, Newbrough said.
The entire project is within the 2007 consent decree between Trumbull County and the Ohio EPA "due to failed off-lot septic systems that have created a threat to health and safety of not only the 575 residences in the immediate area, but also anyone who comes in contact with the septic effluent downstream of the project area."
Newbrough said this and other factors, including the community share of costs, went into the high score received from OPWC on the Pendleton/Gilmer project.
Scoring second on the OPWC of funded local road, sewer and water projects was the Keefer Road waterline replacement in Girard, which requested a $150,000 grant.
Some of the other area projects funded through the OPWC scoring system include:
Mahoning Valley Sanitary District 36-inch water transmission line replacement, $310,900 requested;
City of Warren, High Street, Main Avenue, Mahoning Avenue road improvements, $240,000 requested;
City of Cortland 2023 asphalt resurfacing program, $75,000 requested;
Hubbard city 2023 street improvements, $116,201 requested;
Lordstown village / Ellsworth Bailey Road resurfacing $141,000 requested;
Bazetta Township 2023 road improvements, $149,999 requested;
Liberty Township 2023 road program, $149,999 requested;
Hubbard Township, Hubbard Thomas Road project, $74,999 requested;
Vienna Township, Smith Stewart Road project, $74,999 requested;
Newton Falls Village 2023 paving program, $149,999 requested;
City of Warren Park Avenue project, $240,000 requested;
Weathersfield Township 2023 road improvements, $74,922 requested;
Champion Township 2023 road resurfacing, $149,999 requested;
Howland Township, 2023 road program, $150,000 rquested;
Brookfield Township road resurfacing of Lucy Street, $74,972 requested;
Braceville Township Barclay Messerly Road stormwater drainage upgrade, $74,999 requested;
Mecca Township, Housel Craft Road project, $74,999 requested;
Warren Township 2023 road resurfacing project, $150,000 requested;
Warren City 2023 road program, $567,000 requested;
Niles City street resurfacing for 2023, $150,000 requested;
Trumbull County Engineer's 2023 road program, $896,795 requested;
Orangeville Village, 2023 resurfacing program, $74,988 requested.
In another sewer project, commissioners approved securing easements for the Heaton/Chute Sanitary sewer improvement in Weathersfield. According to the resolution, the county is expected to pay Edward Zajac Jr. of 1277 Grandview Ave. SE, up to $1,020 for the land needed for the project.
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