USDA approves funds for Mahoning County pump station

YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, has announced the award of a $4 million grant and a $6.4 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help Mahoning County build a station at Five Points to pump sewage that now goes to the New Middletown wastewater treatment plant to the Boardman treatment plant.

The New Middletown plant will close because diverting a third of its flow elsewhere to reduce its discharge sufficiently to meet Honey Creek’s water quality requirements would be cost-prohibitive, explained William Coleman, office manager in the county sanitary engineer’s office.

The Boardman plant, which discharges into Mill Creek, still must be upgraded to accept the new sewage flow it will receive, so no date has yet been set for closing the New Middletown plant, he added.

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