Upgrade planned for Boardman sewage plant

January 30, 2015 at 1:07p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County commissioners approved this morning a $159,000 consulting engineering agreement with URS Corp. of Akron for an upgrade to the Boardman sewage treatment plant on East Parkside Drive.

The upgrade is being made in preparation for the closing of the New Middletown sewage treatment plant, which must shut down by June 2016 because of an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency order.

The EPA says Honey Creek has insufficient water flow to continue accepting the effluent discharged by the New Middletown plant.

When the New Middletown plant closes, all of the sewage flow now going to it will be pumped to the Boardman plant, which discharges into Mill Creek.