Ceremony marks project completion

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U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17

Staff report

BROOKFIELD

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, and Col. William H. Graham, Pittsburgh District Engineer of the Army Corps of Engineers, were among those who attended the ceremony Tuesday marking completion of sanitary sewer projects in Brookfield Center costing $2 million.

Ryan secured more than $1 million for the two phases of the project from the Army Corps.

Part of the project has been complete for more than a year. The second part has been done for about six months, said Rex Fee, executive director of the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office, which administered the project.

Brookfield Center, a commercial and residential area at state Routes 7 and 82, was deemed an unsewered area of concern by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency years ago.

Because of high fecal coliform bacteria counts in the area, it was one of 10 areas of the county the EPA and county agreed in 2007 needed to have sewers within 15 years — so-called consent areas.

The projects allowed 100 businesses and homes to have sewers so that their septic systems could be abandoned.

The first part of the project provided sewers to Grove Street from Seaborn Street east through the Center Square and a short distance further east.

The second phase traveled west along state Route 82 from Mr. D’s grocery store to Seaborn Street and south on Seaborn to Wood Street and south along state Route 7 along the Central Square.