With the dam in Leavittsburg set to be removed in 2025, Warren Township Trustees are trying to find more options to save it. 

They pitched in funds along with the Trumbull County Commissioners to hire a company to study the dam and lay out the pros and cons from both sides. 

The researchers gave three options. Keep the dam as is, remove the dam or keep it and make some modifications. 

Trumbull County MetroParks owns the dam. It sits along the Mahoning River near Canoe City. The owners want to get rid of it because they say it causes a potential drowning hazard and negatively impacts the environment. 

The trustees want to keep the dam because they say, if it gets removed, the water line will go down and cause side banks to cave in, including some big trees.

But for the first time a third option was put out on the table.

“There are ways that they can put big boulders down underneath the dam which takes the liability away from anybody going over the dam and drowning,” Kay Anderson, a Warren Township Trustee said. 

The trustees hope the third option and other concerns that came up in the research will change MetroParks mind to remove the dam. 

The owners told 21 News they will look at the trustees study but had no further comment.