Mahoning commisisoners hear about flooding in Lowellville
YOUNGSTOWN — Flooding due to recent heavy rains has likely inflicted some $500,000 in road and street damage in the village of Lowellville, its mayor told the Mahoning County commissioners this morning.
“It’s a disaster as far as I’m concerned,” Mayor James Iudiciani Sr. said. McGill Street in the village is closed due to water damage, he added.
The village seeks emergency state funding for road and street repairs, the mayor said.
Referring to the state’s Rainy Day Fund, he said: “The rainy day has come.”
This past month went down in the record books as the Mahoning Valley’s third-wettest June, with 9.02 inches of rain officially recorded by the National Weather Service at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna.
Some areas, including Poland, which is adjacent to Lowellville, unofficially recorded as much as 12 inches of rain last month.
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