Commissioners OK sewer project drawings

WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners have approved the detailed drawings for a $1.5 million sanitary sewer project to serve parts of Tibbetts-Wick Road and state Route 193 in Liberty Township starting sometime in 2008.

Rex Fee, executive director of the county sanitary engineer’s office, said the sewer line will run about 7,000 feet from the intersection of Squaw Creek and Tibbetts-Wick Road, west to Route 193 and north to a location just south of Crews-Hood Road.

It is the first phase of a project that will be completed in about five phases called the Little Squaw Creek Interceptor, which the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency considers a high priority. The EPA identified it as one of the county’s unsewered areas of concern.

Fee said the county received federal grants of $500,000 and $174,000 for the first phase. The 23 homes and businesses in the affected area, including a 22-unit mobile home park on Route 193, will pay the rest, Fee said.

When complete, the interceptor will provide sewers to Vienna Center and continue as far north as King Graves Road.