May 2, 2024, Press Release from the Ohio Water Development Authority: The Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) awarded $29 million through low interest loans to Ohio communities to improve wastewater and drinking water infrastructure and make water quality improvements for Ohioans. For the month of April, the Authority funded 8 projects that will provide improvements and replace aging infrastructure. The 8 awarded projects received an interest rate ranging from 1.53% to 3.26%.

March 6, 2024 Press Release from the City of Lima: The City of Lima’s contractor, Fenson Contracting, will be closing the 100 and 200 blocks of N. Cole Street to perform sanitary sewer testing.

The city is responsible for the public line from the main to the shut-off valve and the property owner is responsible for the service line from the shutoff valve to the house. Around 800 water customers will soon get letters from the city offering to pick up the cost for the replacement of their line with copper pipes as a public service to reduce health concerns.

The city is receiving more than 5.5 million dollars in funding from the state to make infrastructure improvements to the historic courthouse district. Both Kenton and state officials know how important this development is to the city and the State of Ohio as a whole.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced the expansion of H2Ohio, the state's comprehensive, data-driven strategy to improve water quality throughout Ohio. Since launching in 2019, H2Ohio has primarily focused on water infrastructure replacement in low-income areas, statewide wetland creation, and the reduction of algal-bloom-causing agricultural runoff into Lake Erie. The new H2Ohio Rivers program will expand the initiative's overall goals to also focus on improving and maintaining the health of Ohio's large rivers. 

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio EPA Director Anne M. Vogel today announced $16.7 million in H2Ohio water infrastructure grants for 14 projects across the state. Governor DeWine launched H2Ohio in 2019 as a comprehensive strategy to improve water infrastructure across Ohio and provide increased access to clean, reliable drinking water. 

City of Lima water users are seeing letters in their water bills about a violation the EPA requires them to report. It was one sample of water that was taken from a faucet at a location of a water customer back in December. It was a minuscule amount of an organic compound that can form when water is sitting and not flowing through the water system.