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Lorain County Metroparks trail expansion, environmental corrective work, and road rehabilitation reported to council
Summary
City engineer told council that Lorain County Metroparks is constructing a one-mile loop trail west of Keith Road with a parking facility, GM Environmental will conduct corrective action and borings at former Sitco gas station, and full-depth pavement rehabilitation is progressing on Oak Street, Main Avenue and Harris Drive.
The City Engineer reported to North Ridgeville City Council on Sept. 2 that several infrastructure projects and environmental corrective actions are underway.
Lorain County Metroparks is expanding trails on the west side of Keith Road on land it recently acquired; the engineer said the new trailhead will be about a half-mile north of Center Ridge Road and will include a parking facility and a roughly one-mile loop trail surfaced with a 10-foot-wide aggregate trail. "Construction has already started and is expected to end this November," the City Engineer reported.
The engineer also said GM Environmental is continuing corrective action at the southwest corner of State Route 83 and Center Ridge (the former Sitco gas station). Fieldwork will include drilling borings along Center Ridge Road; eastbound traffic will be closed for a day while crews drill and the eastbound right turn onto State Route 83 will be prohibited during that work. The engineer said Lear Nagle will be the detour for that day.
Finally, the city’s full-depth rehabilitation project is making progress this week on Oak Street, Main Avenue and Harris Drive, the engineer said.
Nut graf: The combined updates cover recreation (Metroparks trail expansion), environmental remediation (former gas-station corrective action), and routine streets work — all items with varying timelines and community impacts.
The council meeting record contains no votes on these items; they were delivered as informational reports. The engineer provided expected timelines and a traffic-control advisory for the upcoming borings. Residents are directed to follow posted detours during that work.
Ending: Construction timelines given were "expected to end this November" for the Metroparks trail; specific dates and permitting details for the environmental corrective action were not provided at the meeting.
