COLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio - Beaten roads, rusty buildings, outdated equipment... Those are just some of the overall infrastructure issues Mahoning Valley counties are tackling.

Now that the federal government passed the $1.2-trillion infrastructure bill, Valley residents may start to see some of those improvements in their neighborhood. 

Columbiana County Engineer Bert Dawson said the county's top priority is fixing an 85-year-old rusty garage where the county's plow trucks are parked. 

Dawson said it needs a major rebuild and is counting on infrastructure funds to secure his plans. 

"We have probably a million and a half dollars worth of trucks in that building. They're very subject to inclement weather in the winter when the boys are trying to get the trucks out, they're cold, they're snow-covered... we've got to correct that situation," Dawson said, "It's sort of like putting your car away at night into your garage so that when you come out in the morning and it's snowed and it's icy, you can get in it and get to work. It's the same thing with these guys."

Dawson said a new garage will give these trucks a longer life and allow plowers to get on the roads quicker. It'll cost $1.3 million and would be finished in time for next winter.

Next on the list: Water and sewer improvements.

"Water and sewer is an overriding problem in a lot of our communities," he said, "Salem, East Liverpool, Lisbon, East Palestine... Those are older communities and need improvements to their water and sewer facilities."

The South Market Street Elkton plant services the city of Lisbon and the prison next door, processing one million gallons of water daily.

Plants like this need major improvements and repairs on equipment like water pumps.

"Most of these plants and facilities were built 40, 50, 60 years ago and they're just worn out and they need to be replaced," he said.