Green Team to help fund road project

YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning County Green Team will kick in 145,000 as the local share to rebuild a Jackson Township industrial access road using recycled materials.
The county commissioners approved the plan at their meeting Tuesday.
Marilyn Kenner, the county's chief deputy engineer, said the plan is to reconstruct a section of Silica Road using blast furnace slag, recycled concrete and recycled steel.
The steel will be used in the mesh in the concrete for the road.
Focusing on the use of recycled material cleared the way for the Green Team participation, she said. The Green Team's formal name is Mahoning County Commissioners' Reuse & amp; Recycle Division.
Improvement needed
The current road is paved and narrow but needs to be widened and improved to handle heavy truck traffic, Kenner said.
The Silica Road work is part of a larger Bailey Road industrial site improvement program, which includes extending a 12-inch waterline about 5,000 feet from Leonard Parkway to Transport America Inc. at 1951 Bailey Road.
The county sanitary engineering department will do the bulk of that work, but the commissioners did award 104,000 in contracts to Pipelines Inc. of East Liverpool and 5,142 to McCoy Excavating & amp; Trucking of Lake Milton to provide materials for the job.
The commissioners also approved a 23,760 contract with Kirila Contractors Inc. of Brookfield to bore under Bailey and Silica roads so the waterline can run beneath them.
The waterline and Silica Road rebuilding have a combined estimate of 590,000.
In addition to the Green Team funding, 300,000 will come from a state Industrial Site Improvement grant.
Transport America picked up some of the planning costs, and the county will provide in-kind services on engineering and project management to complete the financing.