Youngstown board approves payments for emergency repairs

By David Skolnick

skolnick@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control approved paying contractors $84,904 for eight emergency repair and replacement projects of its aging sewer line.

Though the board voted Wednesday on the payments, the work was done over the past few months after the bills were reviewed by the public-works department, said Charles Shasho, the department’s deputy director.

“We get a lot of [sewer-line] collapses,” he said. “We have the oldest sewer system in the area. The rain doesn’t help.”

Among the most-expensive repairs were:

$18,363 to K.T. Lyden Construction of Girard to replace two catch basins and repair lines at the intersection of McHenry and Willow streets on the East Side.

$18,200 to Utility Contracting of Youngstown to replace a catch basin and repair a line on the 300 block of Commerce Street downtown.

$14,971 bill to Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Co. of Youngstown to replace a manhole and repair a sewer line on Fernwood Avenue on the city’s West Side.

$8,873 to Utility Contracting to replace three catch basins and repair lines at the intersection of Watt and Wood streets downtown.

Other repair work was done on South Belle Vista, Atkinson, and South Schenley avenues as well as Susan Circle.