Mahoning commissioners OK $2.6M treatment plant upgrade

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners awarded this morning a $2,649,000 contract to the A.P. O’Horo Co. for an upgrade to the Boardman Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The upgrade is being funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan.

They also approved the transfer of a 1/10 of a mile dead-end section of Tippecanoe Road from the county highway system to the Boardman and Canfield township road systems.

That section, which is no longer a through road and which the county repaved this year, is near where Tippecanoe intersects with Lockwood Boulevard.

The rest of Tippecanoe will remain under county maintenance.

Tippecanoe forms the boundary between Boardman and Canfield townships.

The townships will decide how to divide pothole patching and winter maintenance responsibilities in the transferred dead-end section, said Marilyn Kenner, Boardman road superintendent.

The county will still be responsible for maintenance of a culvert carrying an Indian Run tributary under the dead-end section of Tippecanoe, Kenner said.