Pepper Pike council authorizes engineering plans for two sanitary-sewer projects, backs regional grant for package-plant replacement

Pepper Pike City Council on Monday authorized city engineering staff to prepare specifications, plans and estimated assessments for two sanitary-sewer projects — the Belgrave sanitary sewer improvements and the southwest quadrant of South Woodland Road sanitary sewer improvements — and voted to support a regional MCIP grant application to remove a permitted package wastewater treatment plant near the intersection of Paramount and Lander.

The council’s actions move the Belgrave and South Woodland projects into the design phase. Don Sheehy, the city engineer, told council the Belgrave work has local pump-station infrastructure in place and that plans are ready to begin so the city can position both projects for bidding by late this year or early next year. Sheehy characterized the South Woodland work as a longer, more complex trunk-line and pump-station project aimed for construction in 2027 and said the city secured…