Poland official touts sewer project benefits

Published: Mon, July 2, 2012 @ 12:03 a.m.

By Peter H. Milliken

milliken@vindy.com

POLAND

Completion of a $4.25 million sanitary sewer installation will improve quality of life, raise homeowners property values and bolster economic development potential, the township administrator said.

Sewer lines, gas lines, waterlines any utility makes any community more attractive to businesses. This can only benefit us. It can never hurt us, said James Scharville, Poland Township administrator.

Scharville was referring to the South Struthers Interceptor Sewer, which will eliminate 165 septic systems, many of them failing after having been in use for more than 50 years.

Ive heard many reports of people complaining about odors, especially in the summertime, and there are places where you can actually see black water in the roadside ditches. So this will be a very environmentally favorable project, said J. Robert Lyden, Mahoning County sanitary engineer.

The quality of life for these citizens here will be improved with the sanitary sewer. It will be a benefit to the streams and to the Mahoning River, he added.

The project includes installation of nearly five miles of plastic sewer pipe, carrying sewage to the Struthers sewage treatment plant.

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