Capital improvements program to save MVSD big bucks

NILES — A revised capital improvements program will save the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District nearly $11 million dollars, the district’s chief engineer told city officials.

Tom Holloway said Wednesday the original plan submitted in 1995 would have cost more than $29 million, but a revised plan that contains substantially new technology is projected to cost only $18 million.

The MVSD provides water to Niles and Youngstown, which it recently began marketing under the name Meander Water.

Holloway said the new plan, developed by MS Consultants, Youngstown, calls for construction of two solids contact clarifiers to treat the water and the addition of a process called recarbonization, which removes calcium carbonate from the water and protects equipment.

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