Northwest Ohio communities are receiving more than $15 million in low-interest rate and principal forgiveness funding from the Ohio EPA.
These funds will improve wastewater and drinking water infrastructure.
The loans were approved between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021, reported Crawford County Now. Ohio EPA awarded more than $159.9 million statewide in loans during the fourth quarter of 2021, $22 million of which are principal forgiveness.
The projects include managing Ohio’s surface water quality and drinking water systems, reported Crawford County Now, with a focus on low-income property owners repair.
The Northwest Ohio projects receiving funding for the fourth quarter of 2021 include:
- Delphos: $10.3 million for two projects. $6.97 million loan will fund the final phase of a project to replace filter membranes at the wastewater treatment plant. A $3.35 million loan will fund a new elevated 500,000-gallon drinking water storage tank and improvements to sections of water distribution system piping along the Miami Erie Canal and on Lima Avenue.
- Huron: $2.9 million to install tube settlers in existing settling basins at the drinking water plant, as well as constructing a new building built over the tube settlers.
- Cridersville: $1.1 million to replace the sanitary sewer between Rail Road and South Dixie Highway. A sanitary sewer main also will be replaced on South Dixie south of East Main.
- Shelby: $289,600 to replace 41 lead service lines in the drinking water system. This loan includes $288,600 in principal forgiveness.
- Oak Harbor: $225,331 to make improvements to the 500,000-gallon elevated drinking water storage tank, including interior and exterior coating.
- Marblehead: $126,688 to design a project to build a new elevated drinking water storage tank at the southern end of the water distribution system.
- Bucyrus: $107,877 to design a project extending a new waterline to connect the village of Nevada distribution system to the Bucyrus distribution system. Bucyrus will provide Nevada with the community’s daily supply of drinking water.
- Ayersville Water and Sewer District: $46,114 to design a project to construct an aeration system near the intersection of Shindler Road, Fullmer Road, and Ayersville Pleasant Bend Road.
