COLUMBUS — The proposed, 830-mile Rover pipeline has received its Ohio Environmental Protection Agency water quality certification for construction in Crawford, Seneca, Hancock, Wood, Henry, Defiance, Fulton, Ashland, Noble, Monroe, Harrison, Carroll, Tuscarawas, Stark, Wayne, Richland, Belmont, and Jefferson counties.

The Ohio EPA acknowledged discharges “have a potential to affect the quality of streams and wetlands” in the following watersheds: Tiffin, Lower Maumee, Cedar-Portage, Sandusky, Upper Ohio, Upper Ohio Wheeling, Little Muskingum-Middle Island, Tuscarawas, Mohican, Walhonding, and Wills.

But impairments are not expected to exceed Ohio water quality standards written to protect human health and the environment, the agency said.

The pipeline would be operated by Rover Pipeline LLC, a company of Energy Transfer Partners.

First Published March 6, 2017, 5:00 a.m.