Ohio City Gets Funding to Upgrade Sewer System
The Ohio EPA has approved a low-interest loan worth approximately $1.6 million for the City of Warren’s High Street overflow planning project, in an effort to improve water quality in the Ohio River watershed.
The city plans to permanently close the High Street overflow system, which will involve identifying sources of infiltration and inflow and recommending relevant projects that address downtown basement sewer backups.
Established in 1989, the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund provides below-market interest rate loans for communities to upgrade their wastewater treatment systems. The 1.55 percent reduced-rate loan will save Warren about $56,674.
Along with improvements to publicly owned treatment works, the WPCLF provides technical assistance to public wastewater systems in a variety of areas from the planning, design and construction of improvements to enhancing their technical, managerial and financial capacity. WPCLF loans also make the restoration and protection of some of Ohio’s highest quality water bodies possible through the fund’s Water Resource Restoration Sponsor Program.
To learn more, visit epa.ohio.gov/defa/EnvironmentalandFinancialAssistance.aspx.
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