Kinsman sewer project to begin in October

Staff report

WARREN

Trumbull County commissioners adopted a resolution Monday stating their intention to proceed with the $10.6 million second phase of the Kinsman Sanitary Sewer Project.

The phase will provide sewers to 343 homes and businesses within about a half-mile radius of Kinsman Center and the Farmdale area near a former Kraft plant that will process the wastewater.

Groundbreaking is expected in October, and construction will take about a year.

Of the $10.6 million cost, about $3 million will be paid by the affected property owners, amounting to a cost of about $30 per month per user, said Gary Newbrough, project planning director for the county Sanitary Engineer’s Department. The remaining cost will be paid for with federal and state grants.

The Kinsman project was drastically slowed by complications arising from changing aspects of grants provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Newbrough said.

Help came from both U.S. senators from Ohio and the members of Congress representing Trumbull County to secure funding to make the project affordable for the property owners affected, said Frank Fuda, county commissioner.

The Kinsman project is among three of the largest projects the county and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency agreed in 2007 that the county would carry out to abate contamination resulting from inadequate home septic systems.

It is among the so-called “unsewered areas of concern” the EPA identified in legal action it took against the county.

The two other areas are the Meadowbrook neighborhood in Leavittsburg and the Maplewood area of Hubbard Township.