Maumee Area News Today

As part of Governor Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Clark Island and Delaware/Horseshoe Island restoration projects recently.

Five companies – Ohio Refining Co., Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Energy Transfer (R&M) LLC, Pilkington North America Inc. and Chemtrade Logistics Inc. – recently agreed to settlements totaling in excess of $7.2 million to resolve claims of natural resource damages at the Duck & Otter Creeks Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) site.

OREGON — Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District recently announced its 2023 award winners at the 59th annual meeting.

Ohio Refining Co., Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Energy Transfer (R&M) LLC, Pilkington North America Inc. and Chemtrade Logistics Inc. all agreed to pay $7.2 million.

News Editor news@presspublications.com The Wood County commissioners have approved a resolution to fund environmental design services for a project to improve Dry Creek and adjacent areas in the Village of Walbridge.

Conditions in the Maumee Area of Concern (AOC), one of the largest AOCs in the eight Great Lakes states, have vastly improved over the last 30 years, bringing the Maumee AOC one step closer to full restoration.

News Editor news@presspublications.com Walbridge Village Council Wednesday heard the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the village to enter into an agreement with the Wood County commissioners for an ecological design and riparian project along Dry Creek.

News Editor news@presspublications.com An ordinance to revise the Walbridge zoning code to prohibit borrow pits has had its second reading and is expected to be passed by village council at its November meeting, mayor Ed Kolanko said last week.

         Responding to the Ohio Lake Erie Commission’s (OLEC) and Ohio EPA’s recommendations from earlier this year, U.S.

Wood County is accepting letters of interest from engineering firms for consulting and environmental design services for an ecological improvement project along a section of Dry Creek.