Delay is proposedon sewer

WARREN - At $12 million, the project to rid Warren Township's Meadowbrook neighborhood of pollution by replacing broken down septic systems with sanitary sewer lines is among the most expensive of the mandated upgrades in Trumbull County.

Adding to financial strains is the fact that the area east of the Mahoning River in Leavittsburg is home to low-to-moderate income residents.

Combined, it's a double whammy that may push the project to the end of the list.

''It's a big project, the income level of the people in that area lends itself to a project that really has to have a pretty good grant to offset, so people can afford it,'' said Rex Fee, executive director of the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer's Office.

The office would like to see the project, one of a dozen to remedy failing or malfunctioning septic systems in a consent decree with the state, pushed back five years because of the cost and inability for residents there to pay for it.

It is scheduled to be completed by 2015.

By numbers

$40.1 million: Total cost for consent decree sewer projects completed or under construction.

$11 million: Total cost for economic development and petition sewer projects completed or under construction, since 2007.

$51.1 million: Total project costs.

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