BWD Engineering Committee Progress Meeting

Wednesday - July 21: The Buckeye Water District's Engineering Committee held a Progress meeting last Wednesday morning on the new Salineville Waterline Part B. The meeting was held at the BWD Water Treatment Plant. Present at the meeting was Committee Chairman Chuck Bibbee, Committee Members Gene McGaffick and Tim O'Hara. Also attending was Board of Trustees President Mike Ryan, District Manager Al DeAngelis and Trustee Bob Wines. RCAP's Joyce Gray participated in the meeting via telephone.

Part B of the new Salineville water line consists of a little over 14,000 feet of new line from just west of the Southern Local School complex on into the Village of Salineville. Tucson Inc. of New Philadelphia is the contractor on the job. When completed Salineville's Water Treatment Plant will be decommissioned and their water customers will be supplied from the BWD's Water Treatment located on Route 45.

At last Wednesday's meeting District Manager DeAngelis reported the whole line has been pressured tested a second time and everything passed. All resident customer's requested hook-up services are completed. A couple of smaller Pressure Relief Valves had to be installed for customers along Oak Grove Rd. Pressure readings were a very high 297psi before the valves were installed.

The big Pressure Relief Valve has been installed in the vault. The tie-in was expected to be accomplished by last Thursday or Friday. Once accomplished pressure testing will be done on that part. All electrical work has been completed. Guard Rail work will be completed after the line is all tied in.

Once the tie-in is completed and the valve is turned to shut off the old Salineville Water Treatment Plant BWD will conduct bacteria tests. Salineville customers will be under a short, temporary boil order until satisfactory bacteria test results are confirmed.

All that remained to be installed is the telemetry monitoring the Salineville water tank. The telemetry equipment was expected to be in last week or this week at the latest. That water tank is actually located in Carroll County. As DeAngelis noted at an earlier meeting, once the tie-in is done BWD will literally be moving water from one county to the next, from the Ohio River to the next county over.

DeAngelis also reported that Tucson is doing a very nice job on restoration. ODOT is very satisfied with restoration work done along Route 39. DeAngelis said he's been told by an ODOT representative that they do not foresee any problems when it comes time for the final inspection on the restoration part.

The next Progress Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 4, at the BWD Water Treatment Plant at 10 A.M. It is expected they will be able to begin the final, walk down inpection August 4 too. When it's all said and done it will be a little over 10 miles of new water line to supply Salineville with a quality source of water.

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