BATAVIA, OHIO (March 7, 2025) – On March 7, the county celebrated the opening of its new seven-acre highway operations and fleet maintenance campus at 4475 State Route 222 in Batavia.
Clermont County Commissioners David Painter, Bonnie Batchler and Claire Corcoran along with County Engineer Jeremy Evans, Fleet Maintenance Director Wayne Prescott, contractor Monarch Construction Co., architecture firm Garmann Miller and other officials marked the occasion with a ribbon-cutting, open house and tours of the facilities, which include seven buildings covering a total of 74,550 square feet.
The new buildings include space for the county engineer’s office, highway operations for snow removal and road repair, salt storage, vehicle washing, maintenance and fuel supply.
Please see below for a map of the new campus and highlights of each building.
Construction of the $18.5 million project wrapped up in late 2024, replacing deteriorated highway and fleet facilities that dated to the 1950s and 60s. The county highlighted the need to replace those outdated facilities along Filager Road in its 2009 master plan.
“This is an investment in our future,” Commissioner Batchler told the crowd at a ground-breaking ceremony that kicked off construction in June 2023. “We are building a modern facility that will help Clermont County provide top-quality service to our citizens.”
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The new highway and fleet facilities are expected to reduce costs by improving staff efficiency and increasing the longevity of equipment used to maintain county roads, bridges and other public services. The largest of the new buildings is a 34,800-square foot indoor garage with an overhead crane and space for 32 heavy vehicles such as dump trucks and crew-cab trucks. Other improvements include a salt-storage barn with a covered extension, new heavy-vehicle lifts, an indoor vehicle wash area, a sign-construction shop with dedicated storage and lockers for workers to store their gear. The 6,800-square foot building that houses fleet operations has six mechanics bays, office and break room space, a parts room and storage. The adjacent, covered fuel station features four pumps, 10,000-gallon tanks for gas and diesel storage as well as reclamation tanks for used oil and coolant.
The new facilities, dubbed Filager Campus Phase 1, were funded by the county’s capital budget. Two additional phases are in design. Those phases, estimated to cost $12 million to $17 million, will be located across the street along Filager Road on the acreage previously occupied by highway operations and fleet maintenance. Those projects will include construction of office space for engineering staff and the county’s public bus service, Clermont Transportation Connection. The construction timeline will be announced once the designs are completed.
