Saturday, November 29, 2014
POLAND
Work is set to begin this week to replace a sanitary sewer in the Poland Municipal Forest under the path closest to Interstate 680.
The project includes putting a new liner under 680 and replacing the existing pipe, according to the Mahoning County Sanitary Engineer’s office, which is responsible for the sewer line.
The sewer extends through the upper west end of the trail near 680. That section of the trail will be closed during construction.
The pipe first became an issue about 21⁄2 years ago when it burst. It subsequently was repaired, but is again starting to fail.
When the pipe burst, the sewage leak contaminated Yellow Creek, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources wildlife division, both of which followed up on the damage.
“The ODNR Division of Wildlife investigated a wild- animal kill in Yellow Creek in Mahoning County, Ohio, on or about June 14, 2012,” a spokesperson for ODNR said in an email. “It was determined that 4,989 wild animals, mostly fish, were killed in this creek as a result of a break in a sewer line operated by the Mahoning County Sanitary Engineer’s Office.”
Read more about the problem and the work to fix it in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.