Ohio EPA’s H2Ohio Rivers Chloride Reductions Grant

In 2024, our department was awarded funding from the Ohio EPA’s H2Ohio Rivers Chloride Reductions Grant Program. The H2Ohio Rivers Program is an expansion of Governor DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative. Part of the program is to reduce excessive road salt usage and encourage communities and jurisdictions responsible for winter road and surface maintenance to adopt salt best management practices.

With these funds, we constructed a new salt storage building at our Eastern garage. The new salt storage building has a capacity of 500 ton. This facility cost $143,204.17. The H2Ohio Rivers Chloride Reductions Grant funded $75,000.00 of the total cost, with the County Engineer budget providing the remainder.