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Proposed $1 million design for $6.4 million plant expansion too costly, says Tucker, who favors repairs
By Nancy Molnar
Special to the Beacon Journal
Published on Thursday, Jan 08, 2009
HARTVILLE: Mayor Ed Tucker is opposing the proposed sewage plant expansion supported by Village Council and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Tucker told council Tuesday he does not favor commissioning design work, which is expected to cost $1 million.
''Once we start that design, we are starting a design for a $6.4 million sewer plant,'' he said. ''I feel that we can't afford it. We've got to bring the cost down.''
Tucker said he is willing to make repairs to get the 1950s-era plant in good condition.
Councilman Scot Bohaychyk and others on council are pressing to move forward with expansion. He said design work was scheduled to start at the beginning of this year.
''It needs to be done,'' Bohaychyk said. He disparaged previous improvements as a ''patch job.''
Bohaychyk acknowledged that he was on the opposite side of the issue before he joined council in 2006. His opinion changed, he said, after learning more about the water pollution control facility, including equipment needed to remove solids.
''If the microstrainers go out, we're out of business; we're putting raw sewage into the creek,'' said Bohaychyk, chairman of council's sewer rate committee.
The Ohio EPA is willing to lend the village up to $6.2 million because the plant is operating close to its capacity, he said.
''It's running at 97 percent,'' said Fiscal Officer Gary Wenzel. He said grant money might be available for an upgrade.
The latest idea for expanding the sewage plant is more modest than a version from 2004 that would cost up to $11 million today, Bohaychyk said. The earlier estimate was based on the addition of the equivalent of 70 new homes a year.
The new proposal takes into account an economic climate that has seen new construction come to a near-standstill in the community.
Councilman Michael Sullivan said at least two local home builders have gone out of business, and only four sewer connections were made at new houses in 2008.
''I don't think you're going to see monumental residential growth in Hartville in the next five years,'' Bohaychyk said.
Regardless of whether any construction takes place, sewer customers are likely to see a rate increase.
The sewer system ran deficits in 2007 and 2008 that shrank a $700,758 cash surplus from 2006. Nearly $2.4 million in debt payments must be made by the end of 2015, according to a rate study done for the village. The study calls for a 25 percent increase in the $27.60 monthly household charge in the first year, with smaller increases in subsequent years.
HARTVILLE: Mayor Ed Tucker is opposing the proposed sewage plant expansion supported by Village Council and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
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akron, oh
Posted 02:01 PM, 01/08/2009
have another beer ed
Hartville, Oh
Posted 03:36 PM, 01/08/2009
Untrusted....you sound very much like the ousted mayor...what a deep deep comment....shows that you have a wonderful grasp of ..........well nothing.
akron, oh
Posted 10:03 PM, 01/08/2009
sounds like a sh**ty situation
