A regional vision for protecting Toledo-area tap water from a number of threats, including algal blooms and climate change, took another step forward Monday.

Toledo signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that makes the city eligible to receive $10 million in federal money to put toward the construction of waterlines meant to improve security.

The lines will connect one of the city’s most important raw water mains to a future reservoir that is to be built someday on a 135-acre farm in Oregon at a cost of about $100 million.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency told Toledo officials after the city’s 2014 water crisis that it wants the city to build a reservoir large enough to hold about 15 days of backup water. The agency believes that will protect the region from a

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