Willoughby recently received bids for the Nason Basin to Grove Avenue Phase One project, which will focus on the large storm sewer that runs from Nason Basin to the railroad underpass on Vine Street. According to City Engineer Tim Lannon, the estimate for the project was $6.25 million and the low bi d was $5.7 million from Trax Construction. Legislation will now go before City Council to award the project. “For this project, the city received $5 million from the Ohio Department of Development and $1 million from the Ohio Public Works Commission,” Lannon said, noting that the primary focus was finding funds to advance the project that will eventually provide relief to the north end of Grove Avenue where residents have had flooding issues for many years. The Nason Basin to Vine to Grove will allow the city to drain the north end of Grove by the railroad tracks, Lannon said. “It’s been a flooding issue for those residents for a long time,” he said. “Some of them are protected by back flow valves on their laterals, but it’s kind of an artificial protection. A much bigger pipe under the railroad will be a more permanent fix for those residents.” In March of this year, the project went out to bid alongside the Lakeshore East Equalization Basin project, estimated to be $11 million, Lannon said. In 2022, Willoughby received $3.5 million to go toward the project. The project is part of Willoughby-Eastlake’s Water Pollution Control Center’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, said John Hall, assistant superintendent at the WE-WPCC. The basin will eliminate sanitary sewer overflows of raw sewage to the East Island Drive, lower Chagrin River area in Eastlake. It will accomplish that by providing 1.35 million gallons of raw sewage storage capacity east of the river. This will have an immediate, positive impact on not only the river, but Lake Erie, boaters, adjacent residents and communities, Hall said. ...read more read less