Pataskala advances $3M water-treatment plan, AMI meter pilot and multiple road and drainage projects

Pataskala City Council members received updates on a range of utility and streets projects at a regular council meeting, including a planned $3,000,000 iron-filter replacement at Water Treatment Plant 1 and a $500,000 Ohio Valley Water Cooperative grant to help fund the work.

The city’s utility representative, Joe (Utility department staff), said, “we've been awarded an OVWC grant for $500,000 to help with the funding for that project,” and described the grant as part of the financing for the iron-filter replacement at Plant 1. The treatment-plant work was described in committee as a major capital project for the utility department; the full project budget and contract details were not specified in the meeting record.

The council also heard a utility-committee report that recommended holding the sewer rate steady for now while planning for water-rate increases. Committee members reported staff and the committee agreed “not to…