Fremont awarded $1 million state water grant for North Street sewer project
FREMONT — The city has been awarded a $1 million state grant as part of a new Ohio program geared toward crucial local water infrastructure projects.
Fremont Auditor Paul Grahl said the grant, awarded through the new Ohio BUILDS water infrastructure grant program, will be used toward a repair lining project of the city's sanitary sewer system from North Street to Front Street.
According to Gov. Mike DeWine's office, Fremont will receive a $1 million state grant to repair the city’s interceptor and replace or repair various manholes and structures along the project area.
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The governor's office described the North Street sanitary sewer main as a significant sanitary sewage interceptor for Fremont.
"There is a great deal of infiltration and inflow getting into this interceptor because the pipe has significantly deteriorated at and downstream of the sanitary force main connections. There are areas in this interceptor where the walls have become soft and are at risk of structural failure. This interceptor is under parts of Fremont Middle and Fremont Ross High School properties, as well as railroad tracks and a portion of the county fairgrounds," read the project's description in the governor's office Ohio Builds grant award announcement.
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More than $109M awarded throughout Ohio
DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted announced Tuesday that more than $109 million had been awarded to help fund critical water projects in all of Ohio's 88 counties as part of the third and final round of grants awarded through the new Ohio BUILDS water infrastructure grant program.
The $109 million in third-round funding will go toward supporting 101 drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects impacting 106 communities.
In total, about $250 million in Ohio BUILDS grant funding is going toward 183 critical water infrastructure projects across the state, according to the governor's office.
Grahl said had budgeted $1.5 million for the repair lining of half of the sanitary sewer system from North Street to Front Street.
He said the city had applied for the additional $1 million state infrastructure grant to help fund the remainder of the lining project.
Now that the city has been awarded that grant, Grahl said it will allow Fremont officials to engineer the repair work and bid it out as a single project to be completed within a year, as opposed to making it multiple phases as was originally planned.
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