Trumbull OKs $1.36M pact for sewer project in Vienna
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Trumbull County commissioners awarded a $1.36 million contract Wednesday for the third phase of a sewer project along state Route 193 in Vienna Township.
The project will extend sewers north to Squaw Creek Country Club.
The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office expects construction of the second phase of the project to begin within a month, with the third phase to begin in the spring.
The second phase, which is 1,450 feet long, will carry the line north from near Crew Hood Road at the Liberty-Vienna township border to near Litco International.
The project, known as the Little Squaw Creek Interceptor, eventually will provide sewers to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport and nearly as far north as King Graves Road in Vienna, said Rex Fee, executive director of the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office.
The entire Little Squaw Creek project will cost around $8 million.
It will create economic- development opportunities, but its main purpose is to eliminate a sewage problem identified by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in a consent agreement signed by the county commissioners in 2007.
The EPA found bacteria in roadside ditches along Route 193, an indication of failed septic systems.
The sewers will eliminate the need for about a dozen sewage-processing plants known as “package plants,” including ones at Mathews High School in Vienna, Squaw Creek Country Club, the former Airport Inn restaurant and two mobile home parks, Fee said.