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Trumbull County commissioners approve steps in the Squaw Creek sewer project
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The Trumbull County commissioners have approved completion of the third phase of a sewer project along state Route 193 in Vienna Township and an important step in the fourth phase.
The third phase of the Little Squaw Creek Interceptor sewer project, which runs from Litco Drive 1,450 feet north to Squaw Creek Country Club, is complete, and commissioners approved a resolution Tuesday establishing the final assessments ($51.87 per front foot and $3,103 per service connection) to the affected property owners.
The project cost was $1.7 million.
They also voted to receive the petitions signed by affected property owners in the fourth phase who are in the area from Squaw Creek Country Club north to Vienna Center and east a short distance on Warren-Sharon Road.
The fourth phase will serve a number of property owners in Vienna Center, including Mathews High School and a church next to it.
The sewer line will extend just north of the state Route 193-Warren-Sharon Road intersection to just north of the IGA grocery store parking lot, said Rex Fee, executive director of the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office.
Construction of Phase 4, which will cost about $2.3 million, is likely to begin this summer.
The fifth phase will serve the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport and continue north of that to the former Airport Inn restaurant.
The Squaw Creek sewer project is one that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the county agreed to complete to alleviate environmental hazards caused by ineffective septic systems.
Commissioners also authorized an agreement between the county and the Weathersfield school district for the extension and replacement of water lines near the Weathersfield school district as part of the district’s building project.
The county and school district will split the cost of the $30,500 project, which will increase water pressure and volume to improve water pressure for firefighting and other uses.
Commissioners also authorized the sanitary engineer’s office to enter into an agreement with First Mobile Trust of Dayton to institute online bill payment options for water customers and take over water billing for the county.
The employees who sent out bills in the past will be assigned to other duties, Fee said.
The commissioners also authorized Lynn, Kittinger and Noble of Warren to perform a boundary survey for a portion of Johnson Plank Road in Bazetta Township on the south side of Bazetta Road for $2,200.
Commissioner Frank Fuda said the county-owned land at one time was envisioned as a possible location for a Lakeview school building, but school officials decided against it.
The survey will help with the process of having a private road built so that a house can be built on the property, Fuda said.
Commissioners also approved an agreement with the law firm of Ambrosy and Fredericka of North Park Avenue to provide personnel-related consulting services to county officials at a cost of $200 per hour.