Saturday, July 03, 1999
Grants to slow sewage overflow
Nearly $1M will help Butler Co. with projects
BY ANNA GUIDO
Enquirer Contributor
HAMILTON — Two grants totaling nearly $1 million will help the county alleviate sewer overflows in Union Township, and provide sewer service to areas that do not have it.
Other water and sewer projects that will get grant funds are in Fairfield and Hanover townships. The Ohio Public Works Commission awarded the grants to the Butler County Department of Environmental Services.
The larger grant — $840,000 — will help pay for construction of a new North Pisgah sanitary sewer lift station in Union Township. It will replace a lift station on Brookridge Drive. The new lift station will have increased pumping capacity, two wells with more storage, and an emergency generator.
The project will significantly reduce or eliminate overflows from the North Pisgah lift station and upstream sewers in the Mill Creek basin in Union Township. The project will divert all flow from the lift station to the LeSourdsville Water Reclamation Facility for treatment. Most of this wastewater is treated at the Upper Mill Creek Water Reclamation Facility, which discharges into the Mill Creek.
The Ohio EPA has encouraged the county's department of environmental services to divert some flow from the Mill Creek basin to the LeSourdsville Water Reclamation Facility. Department director Tony Parrott said this will allow Butler County to save capital dollars on expansion of the Upper Mill Creek water reclamation facility on Centre Park Drive in West Chester.
The three-phase project will consist of: the new lift station; an additional parallel sewer main along Brookridge Drive and Barret Road; and an extension of a sewer main along Barret Road, Grinn Drive and Lakeshore Drive.
The total project cost is $1.4 million. Work is expected to begin late this year and be completed in January 2001.
Part of the $840,000 grant also is being used to pay for the installation of 3,000 feet of 8-inch sanitary sewers lines in the Sparks subdivision and 1,800 feet of 8-inch sanitary sewers lines along Parrish Avenue in Fairfield Township, areas now without public sewer service, said Kathy Davenport, spokeswoman for the department of environmental services. This work will cost $340,000.
The other Ohio Public Works Commission grant, for $147,000, will help pay for a new 100,000-gallon elevated water storage tank and water system in the Queen Acres subdivision of Hanover Township.
“The existing tank is in need of significant repairs due to severe corrosion both inside and outside the tank,” Mr. Parrott said.
The tank will be built at a new site so it can serve both the Queen Acres and Laurel Estates areas.
25th reunion: Time to take stock
Bell gets ringing welcome
Jailed mother barred from nursing
Aquarium loses animals
Police targeting litterers
Sweltering forecast triggers smog alert
Judge says: Don't tread on me
Big spender arrested with others' credit cards
Radioactive train load worries Indianans
The Fourth grows as a highway holiday
Boone County festival aims for more robust Taste
Cleves' fireworks moved to Monday
GET TO IT
Airstream owners trade tales of the open road
27 acres stay in Deerfield Twp.
Airport seeks options, partners to fund projects
Basketball scandal hits ex-official
Building boom changes city face
Clock fund raising on time
Commercial building booms in Middletown
Grants to slow sewage overflow
Hazard putting on a show, but president is headliner
Husband arraigned in killing
Lebanon profits from Internet, cable venture
Man arrested in shooting of teen
Man sues city, 2 officers in Feb. shooting
Mary Brogan, teacher, wife and cancer activist, left mark
Middle-schoolers 'Earn and Learn' at summer program
State to maintain insurance checks
Teacher gets settlement but no apology
TRISTATE DIGEST
Warren Co. police linked through computer network
Wilder tries to fund fire update
