Mahoning commissioners approve contract to restore wetlands area

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners today awarded a contract to an environmental group to mitigate a stream and wetlands area that was disturbed during a recent road-widening project.

Davey Resource Group Inc. of Kent received the $126,885 contract to restore those areas near the Mill Creek MetroParks’ Experimental Farm in Canfield that were impacted when Western Reserve Road between Tippecanoe Road and U.S. Route 62 was widened, noted Marilyn Kenner, chief deputy engineer with the Mahoning County Engineer’s office.

The effort, part of a federal mandate through the Army Corps of Engineers and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, will enhance about 2.4 acres of wetlands and create an additional 1.3 acres.

The project is to include earth work as well as planting trees, seed and shrubbery largely to encourage wildlife, Kenner explained.

The project’s first phase gets under way next month, with plantings to be finished by late November, then work will resume next spring and should wrap up in late June 2013, she continued.

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