SPENCERVILLE, OH (WLIO) - The Village of Spencerville will be receiving funding from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to restore a wetland.
The State of Ohio announced plans for more than two dozen new H2Ohio Wetland projects to help improve overall water quality in the state of Ohio. One of the projects listed was the Riverwood Restoration Project in the village of Spencerville, located south of Elizabeth Street. Sean Chapman, the village administrator of Spencerville says that the wetland will help the area deal with flooding issues as well as improvements to overall water quality.
"We have flash flooding issues in the southeast part of town and as a bonus we now, with the wetlands, will get a chance to clean that water before it goes to receiving stream," stated Sean Chapman, Spencerville village administrator. "It is important get that, the nutrients out of the receiving, keep them out of the receiving streams, so you don't have issues like algal blooms like they are experiencing in Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys."
The project is expected to be completed in the year 2024.
