CADIZ, Ohio \u2014 More than 50 residents filled the room Tuesday night, hoping to finally get answers about Cadiz\u2019s ongoing water crisis.<\/p>\n
Council members and Ohio EPA officials outlined three possible long-term solutions.<\/p>\n
The first would be to connect Cadiz to another water system. That project would take about 18 months and cost between $6 and 12 million.<\/p>\n
The second would be to upgrade the village\u2019s current water treatment plant, costing an estimated $10-$15 million and take about two years.<\/p>\n
The third option is to build an entirely new water plant. That could cost between $20 and $30 million and take three years or longer.<\/p>\n
“It’s not at a level we’d like to see it from the terms of a day-to-day operational point of view,\u201d Ohio EPA representative Amy Klei said. \u201cAnd we’re gonna continue working with the village to make sure we get there as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we’re seeing improvement by the day here.\u201d<\/p>\n
While officials said the water is improving, many residents said they\u2019re still seeing discolored, foul-smelling water and continue to experience skin irritation, rashes, and other problems they believe are linked to it.<\/p>\n
Many also questioned why they\u2019re being asked to pay for water they say they can\u2019t use.<\/p>\n
“I carry those five-gallon jugs of water to the backyard and wash my hair in the backyard because I don’t want to go around itching, at least not my head, where people feel like I have some kind of bugs,\u201d resident Tonya Shockey said.<\/p>\n
“My wife broke out in a terrible rash, so I had to take her to the urgent care,\u201d another resident said. \u201cSo, we left and went to Pennsylvania for a week. Well, I asked the neighbors ‘How\u2019s the water?\u2019. She said, ‘It\u2019s a little bit better.’ So, we came home. She took a shower and she broke out again real bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite nearly two hours of discussion, many residents said they left feeling more confused than when they arrived.<\/p>\n
“So, if you would just speak to us in layman’s terms and truthfully, it would be better,\u201d a resident said. \u201cBut we’re getting completely different stories in one hour. It’s changed. That’s why everyone is so frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n
“I feel like, literally like, this is clear as mud,\u201d resident Andrea Tomer-Lewis said. \u201cI think that most of us came here not really having an understanding of what’s going on. I feel like most of us are leaving still not having an understanding of what’s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ohio EPA said it would likely provide the most grant funding if the village chooses to connect to another water system – a plan officials say would also cost the least for residents.<\/p>\n
Local leaders are now hoping to secure additional state funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce it goes down, I will do everything in my power to make sure Columbus knows and the governor knows of what’s going on in Cadiz right now,\u201d 95th District Rep. Ty Moore said.<\/p>\n
Cadiz remains on a boil order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CADIZ, Ohio \u2014 More than 50 residents filled the room Tuesday night, hoping to finally get answers about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-779149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}