Mahoning commissioners approve pact to help stop flooding in Austintown

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners approved a $503,896 contract with a Cleveland-area company for an Austintown sewer-rehabilitation project that will begin a month from now.

Sixty-five percent of the cost of the project, known as the Wickliffe Area Sewer Rehabilitation, Phase II, is being paid for by an Ohio Public Works Commission grant and the remainder by local funds.

The Bedford company will inject a plastic interior lining into more than 13,000 feet of 60-year-old, 8-inch sanitary sewer lines and seal 67 manholes to prevent rainwater and groundwater from leaking into them, said J. Robert Lyden, county sanitary engineer at the commissioners’ meeting today.

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