Cadiz secures $3.2 million grant for sewer lines project
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CADIZ — The village of Cadiz secured $3.2 million in grant funding to go toward a multimillion-dollar sewer line replacement project.
Village Administrator Ted Andrzejewski gave an update on the South and Center Collection System Project during Thursday's council meeting.
"We did receive some good news from the state of Ohio on the South and Center Collection Lines. We are going to receive a $3.2 million grant for that project," he said.
The village secured the grant through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Water Pollution Control Loan Fund program.
The $11,108,500 project includes the sewer line replacement to the North and Central Trunk Collection lines.
Andrzejewski said now that the village has secured additional funding, 47 percent of the project is now covered by grant funds. The remaining 53 percent will come from an Ohio EPA loan.
"This is very good news because even though we were not going to have to pay on the loan for 2020, we would have to start paying on it in 2021, maybe if the South and Center Lines are fixed by then. That would meen $3.2 million in loans we don't have to take," he said.
Andrzejewski said the village still needs to obtain all the easements needed to complete the project. The village needs nearly 200 property owners' signatures as the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires the easement to move forward with loan funding for the project. The village has obtained most of the signatures but remains a few short.
"We're going to keep diligently working on those easements," he said.
Village Solicitor Costa Mastros said the village only needs a "handful" of easements at this time.
Andrzejewski also said that the upgrades to the village's water treatment facility are set to begin in January.
"CT Consultants has been ordering the equipment and everything we need to start and do the work," he said. "We're on track to start in January, which is good because hopefully we will not have a loan payment until 2021 on the water plant. That will give us time to build up in the water plant and to see if anything will be done with the power plant, if it ever comes through."
The project is essential to provide an increase in water capacity for the village and to supply the proposed power plant. Once the rehabilitation project is complete, production capacity will reach 1 million gallons per day.
In other village news, Police Chief Ryan McCann requested council approve an ordinance to change the two-way stop intersection at South Ohio and South streets to a four-way stop.
Councilman Eric Miller made a motion for Mastros to create an ordinance, and council unanimously approved the motion. Mastros will draw up the ordinance and council will hear the first of three readings at its next meeting, set for 7 p.m. Nov. 19.
Councilman John Vermillion said it should be approved by January.