Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks issue a nonexclusive sewer easement to the Village of Galena for installation of a subsurface sanitary sewer to provide services to their Miller Farms development.
The City of Columbus will offer the Village of Galena a nonexclusive subsurface sanitary within 0.058 acres of the City’s real property in Delaware County at 2795 Old 3C Highway, Galena, Ohio 43021, (Delaware County Tax Parcel 417-430-07-009-000) which is managed as the Hoover Nature Preserve by the Recreation and Parks Department (“Property”). The Village of Galena is requesting a nonexclusive 0.058 acre subsurface sanitary sewer easement, under, across, within and through the Property, and specifically under the Big Walnut Creek, for the installation of two ten (10) inch force main sanitary sewer lines encased within a thirty (30) inch pipe. The easement will provide the sanitary service for the Village of Galena’s expansion on the east side of Big Walnut Creek. The easement is part of the service for the Miller Farms development, which is a 214 acre development serving approximately 1,156 residents. Without the easement, there would be multiple connection points for the force main sanitary sewer, and therefore additional impacts to the surrounding properties creating concerns for water quality impacts and indirect impacts to the Hoover Nature Preserve.
The purpose of the easement is to limit the impact to a single crossing of the Big Walnut Creek, thereby decreasing potential water quality impacts, erosion, and further degradation to the Big Walnut Creek or the Hoover Nature Preserve. The easement will be entirely subsurface with the pipe being installed by jack and bore methods. There will be no impacts to the surface of the Hoover Nature Preserve. As part of granting an easement, the City of Columbus will require the Village of Galena develop and maintain a plan for operation and maintenance for the two forc...
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