Youngstown selected for EPA program to alleviate water-quality problems

YOUNGSTOWN — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected Youngstown to receive financial and technical assistance to help it carry out its $147 million plan to correct sewer overflows like the ones that closed the lakes in Mill Creek Park last summer.

Youngstown is one of 10 communities across the country selected to participate in the new $500,000 Water Community Assistance for Resiliency and Excellence program.

The 10 communities will work with the EPA and Jeff Hughes, director of the University of North Carolina Environmental Finance Center, to identify financing and best practices to allow them to make better decisions for upgrading drinking water, wastewater and storm water systems, said Martin Hume, Youngstown law director.

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