Akron may be one step closer to saving nearly $230 million while still fulfilling the requirements of its water treatment consent decree.
The city presented a plan to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to update its Cuyahoga Street Storage Facility for about $30 million rather than build a new $265 million “enhanced high-rate treatment” facility (EHRT), the last step in the massive, $1 billion Akron sewer project.
“We have been able to successfully model to the Ohio EPA that we can and will meet our water quality standards due to the significant amount of work our Akron Waterways Renewed team has put into overhauling our system,” Mayor Shammas Malik said in a press release…