Columbiana County Park Board will hold emergency meeting about trail closure

LISBON, Ohio - Caution tape blocks off a popular part of the Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail almost a week after storms knocked down trees on the pathway.
“It’s at least a hundred trees and some of them are huge… they’re just a tangled jumble,” Eileen Dray-Bardon, the Chairman of the Columbiana County Park Board said. “Some came down from the hill, some actually came up from the creekside.”
With so many trees the parks maintenance department can’t clean them all up so they’re waiting and looking for a professional tree removal company to do the job safely.
“You’ve got a 20 foot pile up of trees. You don't want to just start yanking things out. It could fall down and literally somebody could get killed,” Dray-Bardon said.
The entire 15-mile trail runs along Little Beaver Creek from Leetonia all the way down to Lisbon. The trees fell in the middle of the trial, forcing the closure of a one mile stretch starting at the Eagleton Road entrance.

Park officials are expecting the tree removal to cost somewhere in the range of $30,000 and that's something that's not in the budget. To find out where they’ll get that money they’re holding an emergency meeting Friday, September 1.
There is no official date on when the trail will be back open but park officials are guessing it could be another couple of weeks.