Canfield sewer switch to benefit residents

CANFIELD — It may look like workers are installing a low carport into the ground along Hilltop Boulevard instead of storm sewers, but the unusual looking metal pipes were selected to provide the largest possible water storage and removal for residents of several city streets.

City Manager Chuck Tieche said the storm sewers that Foust Construction of Girard began installing a couple of weeks ago will continue to go into the ground along Hilltop Boulevard over the next month.

As Foust removes the 48-inch round concrete pipes from the ground, it is installing 4-foot high and 14-foot wide corrugated aluminum pipes in their place. Adding to their unusual appearance are the hundreds of metal bolts that hold each section of pipe together.

Tieche said the pipes were selected in part because they solve an elevation problem in one area of the project where only 4 feet of depth was available. If not for the problem area, the city might have used an 8-foot or 10-foot round pipe, Tieche said.

The first phase will travel east along Hilltop from state Route 46. The second phase, expected to be awarded and built sometime this summer, will continue up Hilltop and turn diagonally through yards across Skyline and Neff drives on the way to Callahan Road.

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