CUYAHOGA FALLS: After nearly eight months, the city says it has exhausted attempts to find a more cost-efficient means of providing water to a handful of homes in its more rural northwest corner.The neighborhood falls just outside the city’s existing water system, which uses 200 miles of lines to provide 55,000 people with hot showers and cold tap water.On Monday, City Council is expected to approve spending up to $100,000 on a water truck specifically for filling cisterns on fewer than 40 properties where utility lines remain a costly dream.City Council President Mary Ellen Pyke said she has no problem with that, because she wouldn’t expect the city to balk if the water main on her street broke and needed fixing.“This is your waterline,” she told a room full of affected residents at a committee meeting this week.The truck will replace its 1991 predecessor, which the city fought to keep road-worthy until its engine died last summer.Ward 8 Councilman Terry Mader, himself among the residents who found it a challenge to get private water service to their properties in recent months, said he understood why city officials wanted time to find a less-expensive solution.But after months and numerous phone calls from inconvenienced constituents, Mader suggested he would break with protocol and introduce legislation himself to purchase a new water truck, a move that motivated the administration to put forth the ordinance.Service Director Eric Czetli said that to make the most of the asset the city will try to fit the new truck with a snow blade during the winter for plowing parking lots or side streets.The small drama that has played out in the area of West Bath Road has its roots in the merger of Cuyahoga Falls with Northampton Township in 1986.That nearly 30-year-old agreement allows residents in untapped areas of the township to petition the city to do a cost analysis of extending city water to their areas.
Cuyahoga Falls To Purchase Water Truck For Neighborhood Outside Of Utility Service Area
Local News, Akron Beacon Journal
Wed, 04/08/2015 - 4:39pm
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