Youngstown council to vote on contracts for $147M sewer plant upgrade Thursday

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control is expected to approve initial contracts for the first phase of the long-term $147 million sewer-overflow control plan Thursday morning.

“These are two major projects that lead up to $37 million in improvements at the wastewater treatment plant itself,” Mayor John A. McNally said today. “This is necessary work, and it really is going to lay the groundwork for the improvements at the wastewater treatment plant that hasn’t been improved since it was first built 40 or 50 years ago.”

The first proposed contract, for up to $1.16 million, is with MS Consultants Inc. for a professional-services agreement.

A separate contract for up to $2.8 million with ARCADIS of Akron is for secondary-treatment improvements at the plant.

Construction on this phase will begin in late 2016, said Charles Shasho, deputy director of public works. Plant improvements must be complete by 2018, according to the agreement with the state and federal environmental agencies.

Read more about the plan and the schedule for work in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.