Lisbon’s new $4.2 million water tower will be put in operation in November. (Photo by Stephanie Elverd)

LISBON — Lisbon’s new water tower is set to go online next month, Lisbon Board of Public Affairs Chairman Bill Hoover said.

The tower was a much-needed improvement to the village infrastructure and will improve water pressure at the north end of Lisbon. The $4.2 million project – funded half by grants and the other half from loans — also includes waterlines, a new pump station and a pressure-reducing station for the north end of the village.

“We are still on target to switch over to the new tank on Nov. 20, barring any major problems or difficulties that we may come up with,” Hoover said.

The 150-foot, 500,000-gallon tower – located off of state Route 45 across from the former site of Huntington Bank — replaces the current 75-foot, 300,000-gallon, standpipe the village uses and will increase water pressure to Lisbon properties. The increased height of the tower with all the water stored up top, rather than in a column like the standpipe, will increase pressure for all residents and businesses, particularly the ones closest to the water tower, who currently have low pressure, Chris Peterson, senior plant operator for the Lisbon Water Department, previously explained.

The project also includes a new 8-inch supply line for the tower and line extensions built by Petersburg-based X-Press Underground that will allow for about 45 new properties to have the option to hook into Lisbon’s water system and gives everybody in the area between 60 and 65 pounds per square inch.

Hoover said things are moving in the direction to meet next month’s target.

“We had a successful start up with the booster station last Tuesday and we began filling the new tower,’ he said. “It was completely full [Tuesday].”

The tower will have to be drained and filled again before it is ready and fully operational.

“We have to drain it and treat it. The water we put in is chlorinated because we have to kill any bacteria that may have been in it,” Hoover explained. “Now we have to drain it and de-chlorinate it and then fill it back up.”

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based company, Maguire Iron, started work on the tower in 2024. The village received about $3.6 million in principal loan forgiveness from the Ohio Department of Environmental Protection and additional grant funds from the Appalachian Regional Commission to complete the new tower which had been discussed for 20 years.

(Staff writer Mary Ann Greier contributed to this story)