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Ohio EPA To Host Hearing Regarding Wesselman Road Sewer Project

Ohio EPA will host a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on January 29, 2013, to accept comments on a proposed permit-to-install for the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD). If approved MSD would install a 3,189-foot-long 24-inch sewer line extension from Wesselman Road at the Hampton Point Pump Station to Hutchinson Road in Green Township. The meeting will be held at the Nathanael Greene Lodge Ballroom, 6394 Wesselman Road, Cincinnati.

Written testimony will be given the same weight as oral testimony and will be accepted until the close of business February 5, 2013. Written comments may be sent to Ohio EPA-DSW, Permits Processing Unit, P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049.

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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1972 to consolidate efforts to protect and improve air quality, water quality and waste management in Ohio. In the past 40 years, air pollutants dropped by as much as 90 percent; large rivers meeting standards improved from 21 percent to 89 percent; and hundreds of polluting, open dumps were replaced with engineered landfills and an increased emphasis on waste reduction and recycling. Ohio EPA….40 years and moving forward.