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WARREN So far, Trumbull County has spent $67.2 million on sewer projects since the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ordered the county to add sewer to certain areas, and an $49.8 million is expected to be spent on projects before 2030.
That will bring the total amount of sewer spending in the county since the original 2000 OEPA order to about $117 million. About $6.4 million is expected to be spent on projects this year, with $23.4 million expected to be spent on the projects before 2025, and $20 million before 2030.
Through 2020, 3,545 residences and businesses have been served by the projects, and by 2030, 5,242 residences and businesses will have been served, according to the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office.
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Standing inside a dome that treats water from the Meander Reservoir is Jim Jones, chief engineer of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
Millions of dollars were invested into power, gas, water and sewer providers to bolster and modernize their service systems in 2020, and greater investment is on the horizon.
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As the viral outbreak forced people to spend more time at home, Ohio Edison focused on revamping its service.
The company completed grid modernization, improving electric service reliability for more than 200,000 customers in the Mahoning Valley, according to spokeswoman Lauren Siburkis.
Also, more than 20 new automated reclosing devices, which operate similar to a circuit breaker in a home, were installed, limiting frequency, duration and scope of some service interruptions. Plus, 11 miles of existing power lines were replaced with a thicker, more durable wire, and new utility poles were installed to support the
WARREN Trumbull County commissioners are expected to renew an agreement with Girard, giving the city permission to use county waterlines to bring water to a
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Feb 19, 2021
About 1,500 water customers who live or do business in Liberty Township are getting caught in the middle of a legal and political issue that is driving up the cost of their drinking water significantly due to laws that allow unlimited surcharges to be tacked onto the utility.
The fees are so high, in fact, that some Liberty Township water users are saddled with the
second-highest water rates in the state of Ohio.
Former Liberty Trustee Jodi Stoyak and her husband Stephen Stoyak have long been beating the drum on this injustice, and more recently, Trumbull County commissioners considered intervening. While commissioners are aware of the problem, it seems they have little interest in diving into it, and frankly, even if they did, they’d have no legal standing to correct the wrong.