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Euclid moves forward with underground micro‑tunnel plan for combined‑sewer overflow; design contract approved
Summary
Council approved a professional services agreement for design of a micro‑tunnel to control Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) No. 6 and authorized a design loan; city officials said the project is the first of the consent‑decree modifications to receive approval and estimated roughly 18 months for design and another 18 months for construction.
The Euclid City Council on April 21 approved a professional services agreement for engineering work on a combined‑sewer overflow control measure near East 260th Street and Farrington Avenue and authorized a design loan to begin work.
City officials said the project will use micro‑tunneling under East 260th Street rather than the above‑ground reservoir originally contemplated in the consent decree. The council voted to authorize a contract with GPD Group not to exceed $1,197,400 for engineering, contract drawings and bid preparation and separately passed an ordinance to apply for a design loan through Ohio environmental financing programs to pay for that work.
Council and staff said this is the first of the CSO projects to receive approval in negotiations with federal regulators. “This is the first project that has received approval,” the director of public service said, describing the project as a micro tunnel that would run underneath East 260th from Farrington toward Ziemann and take the overflow to meet the negotiated limit of four or fewer overflows in a season.
City staff told council the work will begin with design, which is expected to take about 18 months; construction would follow and is estimated at another roughly 18 months. Officials said the design loan can later be rolled into construction financing, and that the loan repayment was already anticipated in water/sewer rates adopted earlier by council.
Several council members pressed for clarity about the consent‑decree negotiations and whether other planned projects have approval; the director said the city remains in negotiation on the remaining CSO projects and that this item was advanced to allow the city to begin designing the first approved measure.
A resident speaker who identified himself as associated with the Kasima Motel clarified a technical distinction in the public discussion, telling council that what had been described previously in other meetings was a reservoir rather than a tank.
The council passed both ordinances on roll calls during the meeting.
The city plans to bring contracts for detailed consultant services and later construction documents back to council for approval as design work advances.
