YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Ohio EPA is considering funding a project in Youngstown that would change the city’s sewer systems, improve a parking lot, modify the Covelli Centre Pond and remove contaminated materials.
The funding would be available through the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund program and would help Youngstown in its plan to reroute, create and abandon some of the city’s current sewer systems.
The city’s long-term plan is to connect a new sanitary sewer network to a future, proposed tunnel under the Mahoning River and its wastewater treatment plant.
It would then abandon the temporary connection.
The on-going project would abandon about 2550 lineal feet of existing sanitary sewers and manholes.
There would also be site restoration.
The estimated cost of this related project is $16.3 million.
It is scheduled to be designed by spring 2020 and constructed by fall 2025.
The public has through August 27 to review the assessment and provide comments.
The assessment is available here.