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Washingtonville water report updated

WASHINGTONVILLE — Utilities Superintendent Brian Gudat said a recent inspection of the water tower found “everything satisfactory.”

He told council on Monday there was nothing touching the inside of the roof and the new trihalomethanes (TTHM) system in the tower “appears to be reducing levels.”

The TTHM issue dates to early 2014 when the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for trihalomethanes was exceeded based on running annual averages and ordered quarterly monitoring.

The EPA said the compliance standard MCL is 0.080 MG/L and the villages’ annual average during the fourth quarter of 2013 was 0.085 MG/L.

The village buys its water from Salem and at the time Gudat said the levels didn’t pose an immediate risk to health.

A new bubbling and mixing system that was recently installed is designed to remove the disinfectant by-products used to lower the TTHM. Gudat said samples have been sent to the lab.

In other business, Road Foreman Ed Garret told council Monday there were several places where potholes still needed to be filled in.

“I looked at different potholes. There were a lot we didn’t get. There was one they went right over, mainly on the edges of the road.

Snyder Construction from Hanoverton was contracted for the work and Mayor Herman Frank said he may have missed a few potholes.

“He’ll come back,” Frank said.

Councilman Al Vignon, the street committee chairman, asked Garrett where most of the potholes were and Garrett said, “On County Line Road.”

Vignon said Snyder had $2,800 into the road work and wanted to know if he should proceed. Councilwoman Becky Vignon said he was at “$2,800 of $3,000” that was appropriated for the job.

Garrett said the work was done with tar and gravel and Councilman Eric Sobek said one portion was washed away and “it looked like nothing was done.”

Frank said they better get some cold patch and Councilwoman Peggy Frank wondered if the village was going to hire another employee to help Garrett in the street department. A recently hired employee did not work out.

Councilwoman Becky Vignon wondered if they should suggest someone else “if we don’t like the way he did it.”

Garrett said there was one big hole on County Line Road and Councilman Al Vignon the county engineer has a matching fund program the village could get in line for in 2019.

“We have $40,000 … and we can get in the program next year” and Mayor Frank said, “it doesn’t cost anything to ask.”

Vignon said, “We have to decide what streets we want to do and how far we can take it … it’s bad up there,” referring to County Line Road.

lshields@salemnews.net

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