Final phase of Lake Milton water and sewer project three years out

Staff report

LAKE MILTON

Two local residents showed up at Tuesday’s Mahoning County commissioners meeting in Lake Milton to ask about the final phase of public water-supply line and sanitary-sewer installation at the south end of the lake.

Bill Coleman, office manager for the Mahoning County Sanitary Engineer’s Office, told the residents the project is still at least two to three years from completion.

Sewers and waterlines were provided to properties on the east side of Lake Milton in 2007.

Providing the remaining 150 lots with sewers and water will cost about $8 million, and Coleman said the county recently submitted a preliminary engineering report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The county is hoping to obtain grant funding to cover the majority of the costs of the project.

“We definitely are pushing hard,” Coleman said. “The commissioners have been fully committed to this project.”

Engineering design work for the project began in 2014, according to Vindicator files.

The commissioners’ next meeting will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the rotunda at the Mahoning County Courthouse.

Restored copper statues that were on the roof of the courthouse for more than 100 years will be on display in front of the courthouse from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. At 2 p.m., they will be returned to the building’s roof.