JEFFERSON —
Four permits to connect to the new Austinburg sanitary sewer project have been issued by the Ashtabula County Department of Environmental Services since commissioners accepted the project as substantially complete a week ago.
Larry Meaney, director of the ACDES, said the new elementary school has one of the permits and the other three went to Byron Dutton. One of them is for the former Grange building on Route 307, which Dutton plans to rent out for an auction house.
Dutton said his building has been connected to the sewer system, but there remains some interior plumbing to be updated, along with making the building compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Also, the sidewalk was torn up in the process of connecting to the sewer.
“I thought I was in real good shape, but all of a sudden that set me back,” he said.
The auction will be run by Joe and Kathy Craine. Dutton said he hopes to have the building ready for the new business by July.
Dutton also obtained two permits for homes, Meaney said.
Commissioners at their May 8 meeting passed a resolution accepting the sewer project as substantially complete, a status that allows connection to the $2.8 million system. The resolution passed by the board gave a nebulous deadline of 2013 for connecting.
Meaney said there are probably around 70 existing homes, businesses and public buildings that will need to tap into the new system mandated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency .
Commissioners plan to hold a meeting in the township to answer any questions that affected property owners have about the process of connecting. That date has not been set, however.
“Austinburg is a priority,” said Commissioner Dan Claypool. “We really need to meet with those people.”
There remains a short punch list of restoration and paving items that the contractor must address before the project can be accepted as complete and the accounting closed out.
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