EPA speed bump delayed city park work
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September 30, 2024
Work at Marysville’s Scott Family Park has been stalled for about two years after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) filed a notice of violations for improvements the city made to the existing path or access drive already on the 112-acre property. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

EPA speed bump delayed city park work

By Mac Cordell 

A nearly two-year stall on work at Marysville’s Scott Family Park should soon be coming to an end, which means work can begin again.

Marysville Public Service Director Jeremy Hoyt said that work on the city park stopped in 2022 when the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) filed a notice of ...

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