Treatment facility in Warren positioned for job growth

WARREN

Patriot Water Treatment may only employ 15 people its new Warren facility now, but growth opportunities could lead to 400 such Northeast Ohio jobs in next 12 to 16 months, Warren Mayor Michael O’Brien said Tuesday.

Patriot’s treatment plant, which was built to accept wastewater from natural-gas-mining operations in the Marcellus shale region, is also likely to be a part of the local landscape for generations to come.

“The opening of this facility marks the start of an important, emerging industry not only for Warren but Northeast Ohio,” O’Brien said.

The Marcellus Shale is a huge deposit of natural gas in eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

“This project has the potential of providing our Valley’s workforce with jobs for two to three generations — jobs that cannot be outsourced to a different state or country,” O’Brien added.

O’Brien and others attended a ribbon cutting ceremony at Patriot’s four-month-old facility on Sferra Avenue Northwest in Warren Commerce Park, off of North River Road.

O’Brien said the start-up of Patriot Water, the first Ohio plant established to treat water from the Marcellus Shale, is exciting because so many of the catch phrases of our nation’s future can be used to describe it — reducing dependency on foreign energy, American made and American produced and going green.