BUCYRUS—Mayor Jeff Reser announced Friday that the city will receive a grant to help resolve issues several residents have raised over because they continue to deal with flooding and basement backups on their homes.
Bucyrus (Crawford County) will receive a $209,000 grant to cover the planning and engineering design for its North West Sewer Separation Project. The project will install approximately 3,500 feet of storm sewer pipe. This important project will connect to an existing storm sewer that discharges into the nearby Sandusky River. This storm sewer is designed to separate approximately 55 acres of stormwater from the city of Bucyrus combined sewer system.
The storm sewer project will provide relief to the localized flooding and basement backups in the area during heavy rainfalls and provide the area’s residents with a properly sized storm sewer to discharge during surface rainwater. This project will benefit 12,000 people.
This grant will be used for planning and engineering in the ongoing Federal EPA stormwater separation program.
“We thank the State of Ohio, Governor DeWine, and Lt. Governor Husted for awarding the grant to us. It has been a good week for the city’s residents.
This is the third grant that was awarded to us this week. We continue to apply for grants as they come available. The combined amount of the three grants will save our taxpayers over $400,000.” Reser said.