Westerville getting $13.5M from Ohio EPA to upgrade water plant

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Staff reporter- Business First

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The city of Westerville is getting a $13.5 million loan to upgrade its water treatment plant.

The Ohio EPA has extended the financing from the Ohio Water Supply Revolving Loan Account at a rate of 2.59 percent over 20 years. The agency said the discounted rate will save the city about $3 million over market-rate financing.

Ohio EPA spokeswoman Erin Strouse^[6] told me the loan will cover the entire cost of the city project that include the installation of granulated carbon pressure filter for the secondary filtering and absorbing of organic materials and the upgrade of chemical storage and feeding system.

The project also calls for replacing chlorine with the safer sodium hypochlorite and improvements to the water treatment facility’s control room.

More than $1 billion has been loaned through the fund since its inception in 1998.

Brian R. Ball covers real estate, allied construction industries, development and the hospitality and hotel sectors for Business First.

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