PANDORA, OH (WLIO) - One Putnam County village broke ground Monday afternoon for the construction of a new multi-million dollar water tower.
The mayor of Pandora and village administrators shoveled the first piles of dirt at the site for a nearly 2.5 million dollar water tower. The new two-hundred-thousand-gallon elevated storage tower will be constructed just east of the Basinger Road and Welty Street intersection with brand-new electrical components, incidentals, and a submersible mixer. The new tower will improve village water quality as well as increase storage for fire protection, and village officials say this project has been a long time coming.
"It has been a long time coming. There was an issue in the past where the tower ran pretty empty on a fire, and you know, that's not something that you want to see as a village, so that really helped make us move forward to try and get a new water tower erected, which will be servicing our village and, hopefully, new residential areas or even someone coming into the industrial park as well," explained Mayor Jeremy Liechty, Village of Pandora.
The existing 76-year-old 100,000-gallon water tower will be dismantled and disposed of. Construction is estimated to be complete by the end of June 2024.
