Posted on October 2, 2023
After months of work, the Conneaut Creek Dredged Material Facility is substantially complete.
City Manager Jim Hockaday made the announcement to Conneaut City Council during a meeting on Monday night.
A groundbreaking took place in October 2022, and work started in earnest earlier this year, with truck-loads of soil being brought from a site on Hatches Corners Road in Monroe to the Conneaut harbor.
The facility is made up of a trio of sluiceways, a serpentine channel and an area for drying the material. Dredged material will be pumped into the sluiceways, where it will gradually separate into its component parts. Water will then flow into the serpentine channel, where the finest particulates will settle out of the water before it is released back into Conneaut Creek.
Material at the facility will then be dried and then can be sold.
“We may hold this project open for a little bit, at the Ohio EPA’s request, just in case we want to change some items later on,” Hockaday said.
He said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging of the harbor will likely end up taking place next spring, instead of this fall.
City administrators are working on scheduling a ribbon cutting ceremony.
In other business:
—The city’s 2023 paving program is about half-finished, Hockaday said.
“It should be substantially complete by the end of this week,” he said.
He said he is asking the contractor to keep a close eye on the quantities used, and he encouraged council members to consider if there are any roads they would like to see resurfaced, if the city’s planned paving comes in under budget.
The company doing the city’s paving will also be resurfacing Broad Street, north of Lake Road, to repair damage to the road caused by trucking related to the dredge facility project.
—Council approved a grant application to the Ohio Public Works Commission for work on Buffalo Street.
