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Akron committee reviews sewer capital budget, consent-decree tunnel work and real-time overflow control
Summary
City staff briefed the Committee of Planning and Economic Development on sewer capital projects including combined-sewer-overflow (CSO) real-time controls, ongoing tunnel construction, a storage-facility disinfection project tied to a consent-decree amendment, and multiple sanitary- and storm-sewer rehabilitation items.
The Committee of Planning and Economic Development met for a capital-budget review focused on sewer projects, where city staff described ongoing tunnel construction, continued investment in combined-sewer-overflow controls and a potential disinfection addition tied to a pending federal-court amendment to the city’s consent decree.
Helen Tomic, Staff member, opened the segment and turned the presentation to sewer operations staff. Mr. Luddell, Staff member, summarized the city’s CSO program and associated capital needs, saying the department has applied real-time control of outlets since 2017 and uses flow monitoring to “manage the dewatering and letting some of these fill to maximize our system to reduce overflows.”
The presentation said the north-side interceptor tunnel work is progressing: surface work is largely complete, crews…
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