Monday, January 12, 2015

BURST WATER PIPE CAUSES DAMAGE TO TRUMBULL COUNTY RECORDS IN OHIO



BURST WATER PIPE CAUSES DAMAGE TO TRUMBULL COUNTY RECORDS IN OHIO




Monday, January 12, 2015




WARREN



Records belonging to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's office, Probate Court and other departments were damaged Sunday night when a 4-inch water pipe burst in the county's Wean Building on north Park Avenue.




Officials were assessing the damage this morning, but Commissioner Frank Fuda said there is "a lot of damage again."




He said "again" because many of the records were moved to the Wean Building from the Stone Building after it flooded in summer 2013.




The county had moved 90 percent of the records belonging to the Recorder's office and some other departments to the former First Place Bank building on High Street, but workers were just starting to prepare the boxes of files relating to prosecutors office criminal cases there, officials said.




The Probate Court was handling its own records, but apparently most of those remained in the Wean Building.




Fuda said the county plans to demolish the Wean building and had applied for a grant to pay for it through the western Reserve Port Authority.




A couple Probate workers have occupied the Wean building in recent months, but it otherwise only houses records and some printing and scanning equipment.