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GOV. BOB Taft (center) and U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette share a morning chuckle with Ashtabula Area City Schools Superintendent William Licate Monday before taking a tour of the new Lakeside High School on Sanborn Road in Saybrook Township.
Bill West / The Star Beacon


SCOTT CIENIAWSKI, U.S. EPA Environmental Engineer, Technical Assistance and Analysis Branch, answers a question Monday about the possible travel of polluted sediment Monday during the cleanup of the Ashtabula River. U.S. Rep Steven C. LaTourette (left) and Gov. Bob Taft listen closely to Cieniawski's response.
BILL WEST / The Star Beacon


GOV. BOB Taft (center) chats with PCS of Cleveland project manager Kevin Lacey Monday during a tour of the new Lakeside High School on Sanborn Road in Saybrook Township.
Bill West / The Star Beacon


U.S. REP. Steven C. LaTourette talks the importance of the Great Lakes Legacy Act Monday during a press conference announcing the construction of a containment facility to store polluted river sediment from the Ashtabula River at 600 State Road in Ashtabula Township. Left is Gov. Bob Taft.
Bill West / The Star Beacon


GOV. BOB Taft (left) shares a morning chuckle with Ashtabula Area City Schools Superintendent William Licate Monday before taking a tour of the new Lakeside High School on Sanborn Road in Saybrook Township.
Bill West / The Star Beacon


GOV. BOB Taft talks the importance of cleaning up the Ashtabula River Monday during a press conference announcing the construction of a containment facility to store polluted river sediment from the river at 600 State Road in Ashtabula Township.
Bill West / The Star Beacon


U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson (left) and Gov. Bob Taft listen Monday to Fred Leitert during the press conference to announce the construction of a containment facility to store polluted sediment from the Ashtabula River at 600 State Road in Ashtabula Township.
BILL WEST / The Star Beacon


Published June 06, 2006 12:00 am -

Cleaner water coming to Ashtabula River


Star Beacon

EPA administrator, Taft, LaTourette celebrate river cleanup project

By MARK TODD

Staff Writer

mtodd@starbeacon.com

ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP A $50 million scrubbing of the contaminated Ashtabula River, in the works for years, enjoyed an enthusiastic sendoff Monday morning from federal and state officials.

Stephen Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, led the list of dignitaries who attended a ceremony to praise the project and the partnerships that made it happen.

Every drop of water that flows into Lake Erie (via the river) will be cleaner, Johnson said. Every child and grandchild will know the wonder of a cleaner Lake Erie.

The event was held a few steps from the massive State Road landfill that will be the final resting place for 500,000 cubic yards of sediment to be scooped from the river starting this fall. Earthmoving equipment creating the landfill the past six weeks served as a backdrop for the speakers.

Thats the equivalent of 10 football fields piled 25 feet high with sediment, Johnson said. Thats a lot of mud and a lot of contaminants.

The work is scheduled to be finished in three years, according to EPA information.

Gov. Bob Taft, U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Concord Township, and Brig. Gen. Bruce Berwick, commander and division engineer of the Great Lakes and Ohio River division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, also attended the ceremony. Also on hand was Joe Koncelik, Ohio EPA director.

This is a happy and historic day for Ohio and the Great Lakes region, Taft said. He labeled the river one of the most polluted areas on the Great Lakes.

The river project is the first in Ohio to be funded through the Great Lakes Legacy Act, created in 2002 to address contaminated sediment in 31 areas of concern on the American side of the Great Lakes. The project is the largest of the four Legacy Acts two in Michigan, one in Wisconsin completed so far, Berwick said.

Our partners have done their part, he said. We must do ours.

Cost of the project will be split among Legacy Act funds and the Ashtabula Port Authority and several industries. Ohio has contributed $7 million to the Port Authoritys share of the cost.



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