NAME: McFarland Creek WWTP Renovation & Upgrade
TOWNSHIP: Bainbridge Township
ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COST: $35,000,000
CONSULTING ENGINEER: HDR Engineering Inc.
CONTRACTOR: TBD
FUNDING: OWDA Planning Loan $997,459 and FY22 EPA-STAG Grant $800,00.00. The Department is requesting ARPA funds from the County Commissioners. Project is listed in the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund Program Year 2023 Final Program Management Plan for $20,000,000. The County is pursuing FY2024 Federal Funds to apply to construction costs.
SCOPE OF PROJECT: The McFarland WWTP is currently under an Administrative Order on Consent with the U.S. EPA Region 5 requiring the County to improve the plant operations in order to meet the NPDES permit requirements and halt bypassing. The renovation and upgrade will include new headworks, oxidation ditches, clarifiers, and disc filters. The current and revised deadline to complete this is 12/31/2024. Once the final engineering design is complete and approved by regulatory agencies, the construction project will go out for bid. We expect to begin work in mid-2023.
NAME: Services Center Water System Upgrade
TOWNSHIP: Claridon Township
ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COST: $600,000
CONSULTING ENGINEER: GPD Inc.
CONTRACTOR: TBD
FUNDING: FY2023 Federal Community Project Funding via Rep Dave Joyce, Geauga County ARPA funding, and GCDWR County Water System Fund.
SCOPE OF PROJECT: Provide a 50,000-gallon water storage tank, two high service pumps, required controls, ancillary piping/valves, and a generator. This will provide an emergency water supply if the water tower goes offline and will ensure safe drinking water to a myriad of County Offices and Agencies in the County Services Center area. Moreover, this system is a backup supply to the University Hospital’s Geauga campus
NAME: Aquilla WWTP Upgrades
TOWNSHIP: Claridon Township
ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COST: $1,720,000
CONSULTING ENGINEER: HDR Inc.
CONTRACTOR: TBD
FUNDING: Ohio HB 168 funds, Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC), Geauga County ARPA funding, and GCDWR capital improvements funding.
SCOPE OF PROJECT: As a condition of the NPDES permit renewal in 2016, the county was to upgrade/repair the Aquilla WWTP by 3/1/2021. However, project has been delayed until 2023. It will require the removal of sludge from the two lagoons, inspection of/repair of/ replacement of the: (1) lagoon liners & clay beds if necessary, (2) the aerators, and (3) the lagoon effluent land application system (piping, pumps, and valves).
