The Marion County Board of Commissioners has chosen the company that will conduct the rehabilitation project of the Beaver-Seckel Ditch #506.
The entire Beaver-Seckel ditch extends from Linn-Hipsher Road in Grand Prairie Township to South Avenue in Marion Township and runs through the Grandview Estates subdivision. It was built in the 1940s when the United States Army operated the Scioto Ordnance Plant in the area.
After numerous delays and some backtracking due to errors in calculating assessments, the commissioners have awarded the contract to Brennstuhl Construction, Inc., 500 S. Main St., Bellville. Of the six companies that bid on the project, Brennstuhl submitted the low bid of $159,811.
The other companies that submitted bids for the ditch project were Bahan Farms Excavating, LLC ($161,282), State Highway Clearing, LLC ($162,128), Mid Ohio Land Worx, LLC ($169,551), Crabtree Enterprises, Inc. ($170,999), and WD Excavating ($177,849).
Work to be done includes cleaning, grading, and reseeding the open ditch and cleaning under culverts located along the ditch.
The county commissioners voted 3-0 to approve the final resolution for the project on Nov. 16, 2022, at the conclusion of the final public hearing on the issue. Grandview Estates resident Daniel James filed a petition requesting the county conduct the rehabilitation project and spoke in favor of the project at last November's hearing.
A group of Grandview Estates residents opposed the project, including Glenn Maddy and Jack Smith, both of whom addressed the county commissioners during the November hearing. They restated their opposition and concerns during that meeting.
The approval process was delayed last fall after the Marion County Engineer's Office discovered technical errors in calculating assessments. The Marion County Commissioners previously voted 3-0 on Aug. 24 to approve the Beaver-Seckel ditch rehabilitation project, but were forced to reverse course when it was determined that one column of data was not figured into the calculations for the assessment amounts, which resulted in all of the assessment totals being incorrect.
Marion County Deputy Engineer Charlie Walker said the error was discovered by attorneys from the Marion County Prosecutor's Office who were reviewing the plans for the project after residents of the Grandview Estates subdivision filed an appeal with the Marion County Common Pleas Court.
Walker said assessment amounts are determined in part by "how much benefit (property owners) receive from the project. What type of land you have determines that. So how close you are (to the ditch) and how much of the improvement you use (determines how the assessment amount will be for a property owner)."
Walker pointed out that county government is the "biggest payer" in the proposed Beaver-Seckel ditch project.
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