Butler County Commissioners approved an agreement with an engineering firm this morning to help reduce the chance of flooding in parts of Southwestern Butler County.
This was the next step after a number of meetings between county officials and multiple municipalities over the past few months. The agreement with Herbert, Rowland, and Grubic Inc. is for $76,380.
Butler County will pay $15,276 of the bill, while nine other municipalities along the Lower Connoquenessing Creek Watershed.
The county’s Chief of Economic Development and Planning Mark Gordon said there were two parts to the agreement.
“One is an evaluation of rate control,” Gordon said. “So this is release rates in these municipalities and how they could adjust release rates to reduce nuisance flooding”
Gordon said the other part of the agreement includes to identify “do-able projects” that would be completed by the engineering firm.
“The second deliverable in each one of these locations are three projects in each municipality,” Gordon said. “These would be meaningful projects that the firm would engineer and identify the benefits for where they look at the benefit and what the cost of implementation is.”
Gordon did say that it’s not a requirement that each municipality will have three projects, and that some could have more than others. But, the total amount of projects will be 27.
The expected timeline for the project is 10 weeks.