Success Stories

Success Stories from Ohio and Beyond

The Amesville Project

The Village of Amesville will soon become Ohio's first decentralized wastewater system construction project. While there are examples from other parts of the state where onsite management programs have been establish, such as Hamilton County, this will be the first project using state and federal funding to pay for the construction and installation of decentralized wastewater treatment equipment for a community-wide system. Construction began in the summer of 2007, and was completed last year. The system is now successfully running, and will save residents hundreds of dollars each year in utilitiy bills as compared to what they would have been for a traditional centralized system.

To download a slide Presentation (created in March 2009) about the project, please click here.

For more information, contact Kurtis Strickland at (740) 682-8414.

Projects beyond Ohio

The Rocky Mountain Institute published a report, Case Studies of Economic Analysis and Community Decision Making for Decentralized Wastwater Systems, that discusses eight projects around the country. The link above will download the report, a very large pdf file. Their research was funded through the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Project.

The National Onsite Demonstration Program, located within the National Environmental Services Center, has video clips and reports about several successful onsite management and decentralized wastewater system projects acrosss the United States. They also maintain a Demonstration Projects Database, with on-going and completed projects, some of which are located in Ohio. A simple registration is required to access the database.