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The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has been awarded a $1.55 million grant from the Ohio Department of Development, Ohio BUILDS water infrastructure grant program.
Gov. Mike DeWine created the Ohio BUILDS water infrastructure grant program to reduce or eliminate the local financial burden associated with critical infrastructure needs, such as the construction of new water systems, the replacement of aging waterlines, and the installation of new water mains.
Grants are also funding projects to prevent sewer system backups and replace failing household sewage treatment systems with new sewers.
The grant awarded to MWCD will fund the building of a new 8,000-gallon per day wastewater treatment plant, two new pump stations with force mains, and gravity collection to tie in the existing marina building, restrooms, and rental cabins along with a new RV dump station at the North Fork area of Leesville Lake.
Currently, onsite sanitary sewage is collected in a number of holding tanks, which are periodically pumped out. Installing this new treatment will eliminate possible threats to water quality.
The project is currently under design, and construction will begin in 2022.
Since applications for the program opened in late July, the Ohio Department of Development received more than 1,200 grant applications requesting nearly $1.4 billion in funding.