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EL replacing non-functioning hydrants
An East Liverpool road employee works in the 700 block of Ninth Street near Florence. Road employees were dispatched to replace a faulty hydrant discovered earlier this week when city firefighters found it had low water pressure during a structure fire. The blaze ultimately destroyed the home and caused cosmetic damage to three surrounding structures while firefighters had to call on mutual aid to set up a water shuttle. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)
EAST LIVERPOOL — City residents continued to react to news that a lack of functional hydrants impacted firefighters’ ability to effectively fight a Florence Street blaze that destroyed one home and damaged three neighboring properties.
More than nine months ago, administrators had agreed to ditch the black garbage bags shrouding the non-functional hydrants and establish a program to replace and repair the hydrants.
Council voted in July 2020 to create a new fire hydrant maintenance fund and placed $31,000 in there; however, bringing the program to fruition has been more difficult than expected.
At that time, city Safety-Service Director David Dawson estimated that out of the 468 hydrants (433 within city limits), there were 35 bagged. Of those, 20 needed total replacements, while 15 just needed repaired.
Fast forward to August 2021. Mayor Greg Bricker said that five of those hydrants have been replaced and plans are to do more.
“We are going to try and replace as many as we can the rest of the year,” he added.
Before the Bricker-led administration came into office, there was neither a program in place nor money in that line item to maintain the hydrants. To replace a hydrant entirely costs between $4,000 and $5,000, both Dawson and Bricker recalled.
The lack of functioning hydrants in the 900 block of Florence Street recently hampered firefighting efforts at a structure fire. One of the two fire hydrants found in the area was discovered to be broken, while the other had low water pressure.
Dawson said Thursday afternoon that initial tests of the one fire hydrant, which was initially reported as not working, tested fine earlier in the day but failed when officials repeated testing.
So now that city officials are frowning on the cloaks of shame draped over non-functional hydrants as being bad for the city’s curb appeal, Dawson confirmed that they are finding new ways to mark the hydrants in need of repair.
For a while, officials tried installation of round yellow tags on the hydrants that read “out of service,” but those were getting stolen. Now they are looking into a new orange fluorescent bag with a locking system to draw quick attention to the ones in need of maintenance — especially during a nighttime emergency like this blaze.
“It is just going to take time,” Dawson explained, as officials rebuild the city and the manpower of its workforce.
However, this doesn’t lessen the public outrage regarding the dilemma, which was addressed Thursday by Bricker on social media, who described his predecessors’ decision to not address the broken fire hydrants with anything but garbage bags as “unacceptable.”
“Working fire hydrants save lives and property,” Bricker explained in his post. “An additional seven (hydrants) are waiting on parts but we hope to have these operating soon. I understand this is frustrating. We are working to do everything we can to address this, because our community deserves better.”
sujhelyi@reviewonline.com
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