Aqua Ohio, a private company, made their pitch to Trumbull County Commissioners, Sanitary Engineers and township trustees, offering to purchase the county s Southeast Public Water System.
The Austintown, Ohio reservoir, which serves water to 220,000 residents of Mahoning and Trumbull counties, will receive a new state water infrastructure grant.
PFAS are called forever chemicals because they don't break down naturally. They were found in about 33% of drinking water samples in Pennsylvania and 6% in Ohio.
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 this year.
Ohio Edison, Dominion Energy and several local utilities all have plans in the works or on the drawing boards.
OHIO EDISON
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. In addition, 11 miles of existing power lines were replaced with a thicker, more durable wire and new utility poles were installed to support the new lines.