WPCLF (Water Pollution Control Loan Fund) — "Wastewater" funding type checked

Ohio EPA Division of Environmental & Financial Assistance (DEFA), Office of Financial Assistance

application

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Allen County Commissioners (Borrower; County of Allen)

Hume Road Sewer System

1760000

2026-03-01

2028-07-01

30

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Craig Mescher, Access Engineering Solutions, 200 Walnut Street, Pleasant Hill, OH

user charges (checked, §9.0 Source of Pledged Revenues, p5)

Wastewater: Other — "Regionalization"; Water: Regionalization

design loan + construction loan (30-yr term requested)

Authorized representative: Brad Niemeyer, Sanitary Engineer (bniemeyer@allencountyohio.com); billing: Ron Meyer, Deputy Sanitary Engineer; disbursements: Jody Wells (all 3230 N. Cole St, Lima)

Design: facilities-planning info incl. complete I/I analysis 2026-03-01; complete loan application 2026-04-01; sign documents 2026-05-01; design loan requested 2026-06-01; design completion 2027-02-01. Construction: loan requested 2026-06-01; initial payment 2028-07-01.

Design $160,000; Construction (single Contract "A") $1,600,000; subtotal $1,760,000; +$6,160 OWDA 0.35% application fee = $1,766,160 total project cost (§7.0, p4)

County-wide sanitary system (the pledged revenue base): FY2024 revenue $8,266,270 / 9,651 users; outstanding system debt $13,800,402 (OWDA $11.89M + USDA-RD $1.72M + OPWC $0.19M); Moody's A-2; new OEPA loan repayment ~$59,000/yr for 30 yr (2027-2057). Rate increases: 2025 +8.5%, Feb 2026 +6%, 2027 +3% (§10-13, pp5-7)

Oakwood Correctional Facility 2.89%, Lima Mall Realty Holding LLC 1.31%, MIMG Northlake Village LLC 0.93%, Shawnee Property Management 0.86%, Shawnee Lakes LLC 0.86%, PMSC 0.86%, Hunters Chase MHC LLC 0.85%, Brower Commons 0.59%, Richelieu Apartments 0.51%, University of Northwestern Ohio 0.49% (§10, p5, FY2024) — NO data-center / BOSC / Google customer

10-yr CIP names "2026/2027 - Shawnee Collection System Phase 2; 2027 - American II I&I Remediation; 2028 - American II WWTP Screening" ($3.525M/2026, $1.635M/2027, $3.315M/2028) (§14, p6)

[verified] from the filled form: "Construct a new sewer system for the area of Hume road to service homes presently on septics systems to connect in with the Allen County sewer system." No land/easement acquisition required per the checked box (p1) — read against the item-14 tree, where the parallel Shawnee Oaks reroute IS assembling easements and the Buchanan parcel. The pledged-revenue system is the whole county sanitary utility, whose FY2024 ten-largest-users list carries no data-center customer and whose CIP names the Shawnee Collection System Phase 2 the DFFO chain drives.