Project that will stop sewage discharges into park will cause disruptions

YOUNGSTOWN

Whenever ground breaks on the project that will stop the city’s discharge of sewage into Mill Creek Park’s lakes – whether that is in 2024, or sooner if local, state and congressional representatives are successful in their efforts to push the project forward – there will be significant disruptions in areas within and near the park.

“In terms of the park, it will be a tremendous mess” during construction, Mayor John A. McNally has said.

“We’re talking months of disruption in that section, in various stages,” said professional engineer John Pierko of MS Consultants Inc., author of the long-term control plan for the city’s combined sewer overflow. He says, however, that this plan in particular was chosen to minimize those disruptions, and that the bulk of it will disrupt activity on Glenwood Avenue.

Currently, the city’s combined storm and sanitary sewer overflow system has a total of 18 discharge points in the Mill Creek drainage area. Fifteen of those overflow directly to Mill Creek.

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