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Ohio leads nation on water and sewer projects
Ohio leads the nation with 274 water pollution control projects being funded in part with federal stimulus money, state and federal officials said Thursday, Feb. 18.
And the state ranks third with 62 drinking water projects funded with stimulus money.
Officials said the water pollution control construction projects are helping protect or improve Ohio’s water resources in 187 communities with 5.6 million residents. The drinking water projects will help provide safe drinking water for 1.2 million Ohioans in 150 communities.
All told, 700 jobs are being created or retained with the work, officials said. A little more than $279 million in stimulus funds are matched with $196.1 million of low-interest loan money for the projects.
Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski said, “Ohio EPA has worked extremely hard to put the best and broadest water infrastructure recovery program in place, and we have been able to put (stimulus) funds to work in hundreds of communities.”
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By Big Guy
March 4, 2010 1:23 PM | Link to this
Thanks your Mr. Korleski and Gov. Strickland for more spending that our children, grandchildren, and their children will be held to pay because we aren’t responsible enough to assume the responsibility as our predecessors did.
By Congratulations
February 21, 2010 9:31 AM | Link to this
Thank you Mr. Korleski and Gov. Strickland for the excellent work here. Even more impressive, considering the opposition of our GOP Congressman Boehner and his cronies in DC and on Wall Street. Ohio can do more great things once this corporate owned GOP broken record is out of office.