The City of Akron began work on the Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel (OCIT) - the largest component of the city's court-ordered Long Term Control Plan - with a groundbreaking ceremony on 6 November on the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River. The city said, of the more than 770 cities nationwide remediating CSOs under the supervision of the U.S. EPA and federal courts, Akron's Long Term Control Plan is the most stringent in the nation. The Consent Decree was entered by the Federal Court in early 2014 at a price tag of USD 1.4bn (escalated). The OCIT will have a 27ft (8.2m) finished inside diameter and will be 6,240ft long (1,902m). It will begin at the Little Cuyahoga River north of the Mustill Store on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath, and extend to Lock 1 of the canal at West Exchange Street in Downtown Akron. The tunnel will control combined sewer overflow at nine separate locations, and will store more than 25 million gallons of combined sewer overflow.
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