“But water quality isn’t just about the environment and our health,” Husted said. Jon Husted said a priority of the administration has always been protecting water quality and natural resources. “We want our kids and grandkids to stay in Ohio, and clean water is essential to the health and future of our state,” DeWine said. DeWine said its purpose is to strengthen Ohio communities. In a news release announcing Tuesday’s state grants, Gov. The rehabilitation project would entail constructing anchors into the dam foundation, flattening its embankments, upgrading instrumentation, electric service and lighting access roads, and replacing the auxiliary spillway. It is 60-feet tall and holds back 11 billion gallons of water. If the MVSD does not receive the FEMA grant, it would have to rely on loans, rate hikes and its own capital budget to pay for the project.Ĭonstruction of the 3,500-foot-long earthen dam was begun in 1928. Work on the Meander dam would begin in 2023. The federal agency will announce the recipients in late 2022. The deadline for states to submit grant applications to FEMA is Jan. The state’s decision on which FEMA grant application it will endorse and forward is due on or about Nov. McNinch would not speculate on whether the MVSD would receive additional Build grants. DeWine recognize the importance of the MVSD dam project to the region and the state, and it indicates we have support going forward to the federal level,” McNinch said. “We believe this indicates that Columbus and Gov. Mike McNinch, chief engineer of the MVSD, said the grant, and Mihalik’s decision to deliver the announcement in person, bodes well for the effort to win the FEMA grant. It’s more than just a drop in the bucket toward completing the massive project. Lydia Mihalik, director of the Ohio development department, came to the MVSD facility in Mineral Ridge Tuesday to announce the state grant. Such an event would cause catastrophic damage to downstream communities and leave the area without a drinking water source. The MVSD has cited a federal report that concluded the Meander dam could fail in the event of a storm that drops more than 19 inches of rain in a 12-hour period. The state must first approve the grant application and then apply to FEMA on behalf of the MVSD. It plans to raise the remaining $11 million from its own capital improvement budget. The MVSD is seeking a $30 grant from FEMA to pay for the project. The well test interpreted permeability depended on the intersection ratio (ratio of wellbore intersected thickness to the maximum thickness) and the pinch-out ratio (ratio of the minimum reservoir sandbody thickness to the maximum thickness).The funds awarded Tuesday are intended to reduce or eliminate the local financial burden of the projects.Įarlier this month, the MVSD announced plans to thoroughly renovate and strengthen the nearly 100-year-old Meander Reserve dam. A numerical simulation was performed to examine this case for a fluvial meander loop reservoir embedded in an impermeable matrix.
The misinterpretation of the reservoir permeability can result in erroneous calculation of the reservoir productivity index. The well test interpreted permeability depended on the intersection ratio (ratio of wellbore intersected thickness to the maximum thickness) and the pinch-out ratio (ratio of the minimum reservoir sandbody thickness to the maximum thickness).ĪB - The assumed permeability of a reservoir is largely dependent on where the formation was intersected if the formation thickness varies with the position.
N2 - The assumed permeability of a reservoir is largely dependent on where the formation was intersected if the formation thickness varies with the position. T1 - Impact of variable formation thickness on pressure transient behavior and well test permeability in fluvial meander loop reservoirs