Poland flooding problems being corrected

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About a year after township resident Diane Matuz launched a renewed campaign to resolve flooding problems that have deluged her North Lima Road neighborhood, she believes Mahoning County is taking steps to address the issues.

After water flowed into the basement of the home Matuz and her husband, Ray, share last June, she began collecting signatures from fellow residents dealing with similar problems.

“It’s been a whole year, and I wanted to see what was accomplished,” Matuz said.

At a township meeting last month, county officials including Robert Lyden, interim sanitary engineer, and Commissioner Anthony Traficanti, updated the work being done.

Lyden showed where his office installed caps to prevent stormwater from infiltrating the sanitary sewer system.

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