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Top left, spectators gather at the National Museum of the Great Lakes. East Toledo, as Santa arrives on Toledo’s “Christmas Tree Ship,” a Geo. Gradel Co. tugboat filled with Christmas trees for sale. This year, NMGL is working with the East Toledo Family Center to provide trees for local families. (Press photos by Russ Lytle/Facebook.com/ RussLytle/RHP)
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Oregon plans water rate hike
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Oregon City Council on Monday will consider an ordinance that establishes a capital improvement charge for the Water Treatment Plant Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) Infrastructure Improvements Project. “In 2014, we decided to add ozone treatment to the water treatment plant,” Public Service Director Paul Roman said at a committee of the whole meeting last week. “Ozone is literally taking pure oxygen, electrifying it, using it in the form of a gas, to oxydize and disinfect water. It’s much more powerful and more efficient than the use of chlorine. By using ozone, you’re going to use less chlorine. It will actually improve water taste and odor. But probably the main reason for ozone is that it kills microcysin much quicker than what chlorine can do.” The project improvements consist of adding ozone treatment to settled water at the water treatment plant, and modifying the existing filters for biological active
filtration (BAF). Ozone system equipment includes ozone generator and power supply unit, liquid oxygen storage, vaporization, nitrogen boost, cooling water systems, ozone destruct system, and ozone diffusion and contacting facilities. Ozonated water will then flow to the existing gravity filters modified with new underdrains and granulated activated carbon media. Costs The city will pay for the $15.6 mil-
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lion project through a combination of a $1,400,000 grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC) and a zero percent interest loan through the Ohio EPA Water Supply Revolving Loan Fund. The loan will be paid through the establishment of a capital improvement charge, which will be charged to all customers over the 20 year loan term. This includes Oregon and outside water customers living in Northwood, Lake Township, Village of Millbury, Jerusalem Township, the Village of Harbor View, and the Village of Genoa. The average rate increase will be $2 per month, said Roman. He said the city still has the lowest sewer and water rates compared to area communities. “In comparison to other area communities, even when you add the charges for what we’re proposing, we’re still the lowest rate in Northwest Ohio,” he said. For example, the annual water bill in 2018 in Oregon will be $197, much lower than the $667 annual water bill in Maumee, $297 in Toledo, $658 in Perrysburg, $554 in the Northwest Continued on page 4
Marijuana facility to break ground By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com A groundbreaking ceremony for a state-licensed medical marijuana cultivation facility is scheduled for Dec. 16 in the Village of Gibsonburg. Standard Wellness Co., LLC, is one of the applicants to be awarded a Level 1 license last month for up to 25,000-square feet of growing space from the Ohio Department of Commerce. The company plans to construct a facility on 20 acres at Clearview Industrial Park. Mayor Steve Fought said a groundbreaking is set for 11 a.m. “We have been in daily contact with the Standard Wellness team,” the mayor said Tuesday. According to the company’s license application, it plans to construct a 52,224-square-foot facility at an estimated cost of about $6.6 million. It anticipates a 7-month construction time frame and an annual payroll of about $4.4 million after the cultivation and processing phases have begun. Standard Wellness “… is estimated to supply 1,250 pounds of cultivated medical marijuana flower product to the market in 2019, ramping to about 7,000 pounds in 2023. We expect that our state-of-theart greenhouse and advanced cultivation techniques for production will allow for 0.5 pounds of medical marijuana yield per square foot of flowering canopy per year,” the application says. Last May, village council approved an ordinance that ended a 12-month moratorium on granting any permits for cultivating or processing medical marijuana in the village but still prohibited any retail dispensary. Mayor Fought said at the time that prohibiting the local sale of medical marijuana made ending the moratorium more palatable to the public. The mayor said he and members of council felt more comfortable about the proposal after hearing a presentation by Continued on page 2
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