{"id":14055,"date":"2016-04-29T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=14055"},"modified":"2016-04-29T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:00:53","slug":"400-tower-closing-fairground-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/400-tower-closing-fairground-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"400′ Tower Closing Fairground Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Road Closure-Restricted Area<\/p>\n

\"police-crime-scene-tape\"<\/a>Paulding, Ohio<\/b>\u2014Local officials are taking safety precautions regarding a recent engineering study on the county-owned communications tower located at the west end of the county fairgrounds parking lot located in the Village of Paulding.<\/p>\n

Paulding Putnam Electric, who rents space on the tower, conducted a load study on the tower with hopes to install new equipment.\u00a0 The structural engineering firm that completed the study returned a finding that under current regulation standard ANSI\/TIA-222-G, the tower does not comply due to wind speed and ice build-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter having a meeting with county and village officials, as well as our risk management folks, it was decided to close Fairground Drive and mark out a 400\u2019 radius with flags around the tower until we can obtain a second opinion,\u201d said Sheriff Jason K. Landers.\u00a0 \u201cIn this situation, the safety of the public outweighs the inconvenience to the folks that travel in this area. No one wants to believe this 400\u2019 tower is going to fall over, but since officials have been put on notice of the engineer\u2019s findings, we have to take a cautious approach.\u00a0 Phone calls have already been made to get professionals here and provide further advice,\u201d said Sheriff Landers.<\/p>\n

Information learned from today\u2019s meeting is the tower was built in 2005 using money from homeland security.\u00a0 At that time all specs were in compliance with the rules.\u00a0 Apparently, the regulations changed in 2008 when Ohio adopted the current standard set in ANSI\/TIA-222-G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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