Recently, the Unalaska city council awarded the Bristol Engineering Services Corp. a contract to begin construction on a new wastewater treatment plant. Officials explained that the project was not opened to additional bids because of the time crunch this project is under and the considerable work BESC has already put into it.

The council also passed a resolution to include $4 million for the plant included in the 2013 budget.

Unalaska's wastewater treatment system was targeted by the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Justice Department for failing to work properly. The Feds claim Unalaska has been polluting ocean waters for years.

Wind damage early this winter rumpled the black, insulated plastic coverings over two Palmer Wastewater Treatment Plant lagoons and city workers say fixing the covers is not possible until the weather warms.

The covers, which cost $1.2 million and were installed in the summer of 2010, are part of a solution to help the city reduce the levels of ammonia discharged from the treatment plant into a nearby salmon-spawning stream. Federal EPA regulations regarding ammonia discharge recently changed, significantly reducing allowable numbers.

The city is operating under a 2007 discharge permit and is developing a Compliance Order by Consent with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which now oversees wastewater discharge permits. The compliance order will outline the city's plan to meet the new, lowered ammonia levels.

When the city began the process to renew its five-year operational permit in 2005, officials from the EPA examined the wastewater treatment plant and observed salmon spawning in the small clear stream near the outfall. The resulting 2007 discharge permit includes a provision that Palmer needed to meet new ammonia levels - set at 8.7 parts per million in winter, months when salmon aren't spawning and 1.7 ppm during July and August. Previously, the city's limit was 34 ppm.

City consultant Ralph Hulbert said no one in Alaska had a permit requiring limits that low. "That's not unusual because regulators have previously tasked the city of Palmer with complying, as a pioneer, because it's capable," Hulbert said.

Cutting ammonia levels so low meant rethinking how the city wastewater plant functions. Initial proposals pegged the cost of complying with the new lower 2007 levels at $25 million to $50 million, and even then, Hulbert said, there was doubt those levels could be met.

More disturbing was that the 2012 permit, now being drafted, must use the actual volume of the clear stream rather than the volume of the Matanuska River, which previous numbers were based on. The resulting year-round permit level of 1.7 ppm for ammonia would be especially difficult to meet in winter, Hulbert said. Winter is when Alaska communities have the hardest time complying with low ammonia discharge levels, which surge to as much as 40 ppm. No known "northern tier" wastewater treatment plants are currently operating with ammonia levels below 2 ppm, Hulbert said.

The covers and blowers have helped cut the city's ammonia levels in half, and the city is investigating how to install another tool - an ammonia reactor, or large pad that gives bacteria a lot of surface area to break the ammonia down. It's not yet clear how much a reactor will cost or which type of reactor will be most useful for the city.

The city has asked DEC to reconsider ammonia levels based on demonstrable effects on salmon.

Nancy Sonafrank, who manages the Water Quality Standards Assessment and Restoration program for DEC, said her office received Palmer's request to reconsider allowable ammonia levels. The standards office reviews water quality standards every three years to see if upgrades are needed. Sonafrank said Palmer's request is under review. The standards office planned to monitor national action regarding allowable ammonia levels during its triennial review but did not plan to take action on new regulations. However, that doesn't mean Palmer's request - or its trouble complying with the new lower regulations - will be ignored. "We are involved ... with the issues that the Palmer plant is struggling with," she said. "We're aware, we're engaged. As for how we help Palmer, it's truly how, not if."

Clarkdale Utilities Director Wayne Debrosky gave the Town Council an update recently on the status of the decommissioned Desert Oasis wastewater treatment plant in Surprise being refurbished and reconstructed in Clarkdale.

"We want to start construction in April," Debrosky said. He said he expects the plant to be ready for start-up by the following April 2013.

The scope of the project includes relocating an existing wastewater treatment plant from Surprise and rebuilding it in Clarkdale.

Debrosky explained that the Desert Oasis WWTP was six years old, but it operated for less than six years. He answered questions from council members and explained that the plant has been completely factory refurbished and will be under warranty.

Debrosky reported that the project should come in under the authorized $5.5 million. He said the current engineering estimate of the cost is at $4.2 million. "I think it will come in about $4.5 million," Debrosky said.

Lawmakers in Prescott are struggling to decide how to contend with the city's two antiquated wastewater treatment plants. Officials are essentially deciding whether to consolidate the two plants at one location, or if there are other outcomes they could pursue. The city's two wastewater treatment plants are not functioning optimally, and backers of the consolidation plan affirmed combining the two facilities would improve overall performance.

Critics of such a move, however, said that the city should focus its efforts instead on securing the state funding necessary to upgrade the wastewater treatment facilities. Some experts have urged the city to install phosphorous removal systems in the plants, while others have recommended a massive renovation plan.

Prescott engineering services director Mark Nietupski recently helped explain the issue to some of the city's lawmakers. He noted that the two wastewater treatment plants are not currently satisfying federal and state water quality regulations that will take effect over the course of the next few years.

Still, the city is also devising plans to overhaul one of the wastewater treatment facilities. Nietupski said that he is working with other sewage officials to create a plan that would double capacity at the Airport Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project carries a hefty estimated price tag of between $30 million and $35 million, according to Nietupski.

The improvement plans, however, would substantially improve water quality for local residents, backers of the project say. Nietupski affirmed engineers estimate the construction project will increase the wastewater treatment plant's total daily capacity from 1.2 MGD to approximately 3.75 MGD. The plant currently processes only about 1.1 MGD.

The city's other wastewater treatment plant is also in need of repair. That facility has an operational capacity of nearly 3 MGD, with an average daily load of about 2.58 MGD.

Consolidating the two wastewater treatment plants could save the city money in the long-term, city manager Craig McConnel said. "We're looking at the cost of doing that and what the payback might be," he said.

Bids are due March 7, 2012 for rehabilitation of a sewer lift station in Long Beach.

For more information go to: www.h2bid.com/procurement-notice-151275.html

PERC Water, a water infrastructure company, has been selected by the Adelanto City Council to take over the operation and maintenance of their wastewater treatment facility and immediately begin designing an expansion of that facility.

Adelanto has a population of 31,000. Due to a steady stream of new residents, Adelanto began an expansion of their original wastewater treatment facility in 2007 but progress remained at a standstill four years later, resulting in a Cease and Desist Order from the Regional Water Quality Control Board. Without the necessary capacity, the city has had to divert a significant portion of their wastewater to a regional facility.

Dr. D. James Hart, City Manager of Adelanto, said, "Currently the City's wastewater treatment facility is undersized to meet the incoming flow. There has been an effort to expand the plant since 2007. However, the City and Contractor ran into difficulties that would forestall completion of the expansion within the time lines required by the Regional Water Board. As a result, the City was under the threat of having a connection ban imposed. Through the diligent effort of the City team, the connection ban was not imposed and the City needed to move quickly to finalize the expansion."

Under the terms of the contract, PERC Water will implement their trademarked Turn Around Plan (TAP)^™, a program designed to assist water and wastewater infrastructure owners in restructuring their operations and upgrading their facilities to bring them into compliance in an economical manner. PERC Water is contracted to operate the facility for seven years and will implement their TAP, performing the necessary upgrades to reach a treatment capacity of 4 MGD by mid 2013. This will satisfy the requirements of the Cease and Desist Order and allow the City to stop diverting the excess wastewater to the regional facility.

An engineer’s report for Quincy recommended they join forces with East Quincy to tackle the valley’s wastewater treatment problem.

The town’s wastewater treatment plant is outdated and the cost to upgrade the facility could range between $13 million and $53 million.

"Those are big numbers," East Quincy Services District engineer Dan Bastian told residents during a recent meeting.

Bastian, who was commissioned by the East Quincy board to conduct the "pre-feasibility" study, outlined his findings and recommendations during a detailed 90-minute presentation. East Quincy’s board asked for the study to see if it was feasible to build its own wastewater treatment plant, instead of paying to pipe its sewage to Quincy’s aging facility.

Bastian’s report, which he said was "the first phase" of the process, stated that a new plant made sense for many reasons. Bastian also recommended taking the next step in the process, which would involve finding the money to pay for a more detailed study.

Greg Margason, chairman of the East Quincy board of directors, said he wanted the item on the agenda for the next American Valley Community Services Authority (AVCSA) meeting March 21. AVCSA is a joint board comprised of the directors from both districts.

Quincy’s general manager Larry Sullivan said a QCSD engineer was reviewing Bastian’s report.

The study detailed the problems Quincy is facing with its plant and the options available for building a new one. Quincy’s wastewater treatment plant, which was built in the mid-1980s, no longer meets the state’s increasingly rigid effluent limitations for contaminants such as copper, ammonia, lead and silver. The plant has been operating under a cease and desist order since 2010.

The state’s order gave Quincy five years to reduce the amount of contaminants it discharges into Spanish Creek. It must be in compliance by 2015 or face penalties.

The Regional Water Quality Control Board is allowing Quincy "dilution credits." A dilution credit allows for a higher effluent discharge concentration if it can be demonstrated that the mixed effluent still satisfies the water quality objective. However, according to a 2010 report from the engineering firm Carollo Engineers, the plant will not be able to meet the ammonia standard by 2015.

The district has reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on infrastructure to help achieve dilution credits.

"For example, the diffuser going into Spanish Creek … cost the district around $280,000" Bastian said. "(Quincy) had to also install a gauging station upstream on Spanish Creek in order to justify the (water) flow rates that would allow them to discharge to the creek. It’s a very sophisticated system." Bastian’s report said Quincy estimated it would cost about $24,000 per year just to maintain that system.

Bastian added the treatment plant is operating at about 95 percent capacity based on a 2007 Carollo study. He said the plant is actually processing twice as much waste as it was designed to handle. His report said Quincy’s options for the plant’s effluent compliance are unrealistically expensive.

According to Carollo, an option that would require an oxidation ditch, secondary clarification, disinfection and utilization of wetlands would cost about $36,718,000. An option using aeration basins with membrane bioreactors, disinfection and wetlands would cost $53,500,000.

Bastian said a $13,000,000 option wouldn’t guarantee the plant would meet the state’s increasingly strict standards.

Quincy is spending about $4,000,000 (which includes an $800,000 grant) to fix its old, leaky collection system. Bastian said Quincy was sending almost three times the amount of water to the plant as East Quincy — sometimes more during heavy rain. However, that ratio is reportedly improving thanks to the repairs that are under way.

Based on a proposal from FOP Development Group, Bastian estimated it could cost about $9.5 million to build a decentralized wastewater treatment plant for East Quincy. The plant itself would be about $6 million. The other $3.5 million would cover the estimated costs of land acquisition, environmental studies, permits, etc. But he emphasized the district hasn’t decided on a company to build a new plant.

Bastian said he hasn’t fully analyzed the cost of a new plant. He said that would be included in the study’s next phase. He said he was using the FOP bid as an example.

Sacramento utility officials have proposed raising monthly utility bills by $19 over the next three years. The added revenue would help the city issue nearly $350 million in bonds for several public works projects, including a $152 million rehabilitation of an 80-year-old water treatment plant north of downtown and $57 million for water meter installation.

"Clearly there's a need; Sacramento is a very old town," said Doug Brown, vice chairman of Sacramento's Utilities Rate Advisory Commission. "When it comes to our underground infrastructure, it's only a matter of time."

The need to replace aging pipes and treatment facilities is one big factor driving rate hikes across the region. Tim Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies, said the cost of energy – required in large quantities to pump, treat and deliver water – is another factor. So are stricter environmental regulations, which often require expensive new treatment methods.

Another factor is the growing strain on the state's water resources, which is driving some agencies to secure new supplies, often at great expense. The cities of Davis and Woodland are among them. Both cities rely on groundwater, and their wells are being depleted after decades of use. The water they deliver to residents violates numerous state and federal quality standards. Last year, the two cities joined forces to buy water rights from the Sacramento River. They obtained state approval for a new water-intake facility and treatment plant. The Davis City Council in September approved a 14 percent rate increase to begin paying for the $325 million facility. But earlier this month, following ratepayer outcry, the council reversed course. It repealed the increase and instead decided to let voters weigh in via a November ballot measure.

One of the big challenges ahead for the Sacramento region is upgrading the sewage-treatment plant that serves 1.4 million people from Folsom to West Sacramento.

A renewed state permit for the system, issued in 2010 to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District, imposes strict new standards on the treated sewage discharged into the Sacramento River. The goal is to protect fish from ammonia and reduce threats to human health such as E. coli in the waste stream. The district has appealed the permit and calls some of the terms excessive and unnecessary. But it has also begun raising rates to pay for compliance. Last year, the monthly sewage treatment rate paid by every home in the region increased from $20 to $22. Similar increases are planned in each of the next two years.

The district estimates the monthly rate may have to triple – to $60 a month – to fund a project that could ultimately cost between $1 billion and $2 billion.

Jared Blumenfeld, the U.S. EPA's regional administrator, said the federal government's ability to help pay for system upgrades is limited. The EPA's so-called State Revolving Fund can only help cover about 10 percent of a statewide water system repair bill estimated at $70 billion.

Azusa is one of the few cities in the San Gabriel Valley that is fortunate enough to have its own water supply. The city taps into the San Gabriel River.

But the $36 million plant is facing a potentially expensive problem. Azusa Light and Water (ALW), the city-owned utility, has been struggling to deal with the large amounts of sludge produced as a byproduct at the plant. At a recent meeting, the ALW utility board gave permission for the utility to seek proposals from consultants who might have some thoughts on how to deal with the sludge. Possible solutions range from simple drains to multimillion dollar pieces of equipment.

When the plant was being built, engineers gave the city several options for handling the sludge. The city chose evaporation ponds mainly because of the high cost of other options. One of the simplest and cheapest options, if it works, would be the installation of drains in the ponds. Other possibilities could include a centrifuge to spin the water out, or a press to squeeze it out.

Beginning in February Longmont will begin a study to determine how the effluent water from the city's wastewater treatment plant mixes with the water in St Vrain Creek. The purpose of the study will assist the city in evaluating the extent of the influence of the wastewater treatment plant on the creek. The study will collect data that will assist the city in meeting the requirements of the wastewater treatment plant discharge permit.

The study will involve injecting a red dye into the treatment plant effluent and monitoring the concentrations of dye at several locations downstream of the plant.

Bids are due February 28, 2012 for engineering services for the design of phosphorous reduction upgrades at the Bristol Water Plant.

For more information go to: www.h2bid.com/procurement-notice-151249.html

The Benton Wastewater Treatment Plant is in danger of not meeting Illinois EPA requirements. For city leaders and water and sewer superintendent Steve Shoultz, the danger is real as the current permit with the Illinois EPA expires in 2015.

The wastewater treatment plant has been in operation since the 1930s and is being closely monitored.

"The sewer plant was designed for an average daily flow of 1.1 MGD of treated water," Shoultz said. "The storm flow is 2.52 MGD. During periods of heavy rain, water is diverted to the storm water clarifier. "The equipment has served its life expectancy," he said. "Due to the new regulations expected from the EPA, we are worried that the plant will not meet the recommendations."

On Feb. 27 the city council meeting will begin an hour earlier to permit the three engineering firms to present their proposals for a new wastewater treatment plant. Presentations will continue during a special meeting being held on March 1 when the remaining four firms will have an opportunity to address the city council.

The firms are all proposing a new wastewater treatment plant versus repairing the old plant. The current plant uses trickling filters to treat the water and the new plant will be an oxidation ditch.

A new plant could take about five years to complete.

The city of Ottawa environment committee has received a staff-proposed rate-supported budget for water and wastewater that includes several construction projects at the Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre. The City Council is scheduled to vote on it later in February.

The draft budget calls for total capital spending on the Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre (ROPEC) alone in 2012 of $13.6 million. It would include $9 million in treatment plant upgrades and $3.6 million in building upgrades, including roofing repairs. It also includes $4 million for sewage digester repairs and $4 million for primary treatment sluice gate and concrete structural repairs.

Other big-ticket items in the water and wastewater capital budget include $5.9 million in upgrades at the city’s two water treatment facilities, including valve and meter replacements, mechanical and electrical rehabilitation associated with the filter reconstruction, pilot plant work and chemical tank replacement and rehabilitation.

The budget also includes $23.685 million for flood mitigation measures on the west end. Those projects were identified in an investigation by the city after a rain storm July, 24, 2009 which resulted in basement flooding, road flooding and washout of drainage culverts. Projects would include improvements to the Glen Cairn storm drainage system, the Hazeldean pumping station, the Vanstone area drainage and the Stittsvile overland flow.

The city of Marengo’s delayed multimillion-dollar project to expand its aging wastewater treatment plant is slated to bid out for the second time sometime by March, city and project engineers say. A setback last fall kept the multimillion-dollar expansion project from moving forward.

The Marengo City Council will review the downsized bid designs at one of the two council meetings next month, said Josh Blakemore, assistant city administrator.

In August, city officials had put the expansion project out for bid after receiving approval for a $12 million loan from the Illinois EPA.

All seven bidders who responded by the deadline in August exceeded $12 million, the city’s budget for the project. The base bids, following the city’s design specifications, ranged from $15.5 million to $17.9 million. Had the submitted bid figures fallen within the city’s budget, the project could have already broken ground.

Engineers from the contracting firms told city leaders that environmental and safety issues related to the plant’s close proximity to the Kishwaukee River drove up costs. Since then, Marengo officials and McMahon Associates, the engineering firm hired by the city to manage the project, decided to scale back the design to lower bid costs.

The project’s purpose is to modernize the wastewater treatment plant’s operation by enhancing the pumping capacity from 900,000 gallons of water a day to 2.25 MGD. State and local officials say the large-scale project is essential for future development and would extend the plant’s life by at least 20 years. The plant operates at its maximum capacity with equipment and infrastructure that’s more than 30 years old. In the past three to four years, the treatment plant has been at or beyond capacity most of the time.

The wastewater treatment plant in Quincy is set for $357,000 in renovation work, continuing $1.5 million of capital expenditures for the sewer department approved in the city's fiscal year budget.

Utilities Director David Kent said the work has been planned for some time. "That particular facility is in need of many improvements," he said. "The current treatment plant was put online in the mid-'70s, so it does require a lot of work to keep it up."

The low bid of $357,415 from Blick Construction Co. would remove a steel floating cover of an anaerobic digester, relocate an existing sludge heat exchanger, furnish and install a new sludge heat exchanger, and build safety hand rails around two circular tanks.

Kent said the department is expected to budget for the same amount of capital dollars next year for the wastewater treatment plant.

Major work approved for the facility in the current fiscal year includes $738,000 to remove and replace mechanically cleaned screens, controls, wiring and conduit in the main pumping station, which was approved in August, and $148,000 approved in July for new roofs on various structures at both the wastewater treatment plant and the water treatment plant.

Waterloo City Council members are considering an ordinance change and rate resolution designed to make Waterloo's wastewater treatment facility a more attractive option for surrounding communities.

Preliminary but serious discussions have been taking place with Elk Run Heights, Raymond and Hudson about the potential to pipe those communities' sewage to Waterloo.

When city officials worked on a $67 million upgrade of the city's sewage treatment operations during the late 1990s, the plans were designed to handle growth in residential and industrial waste streams. The plant was designed to handle wastewater generated from all of Black Hawk County.

"The plant was designed to be large enough in capacity to handle regionalization, should it happen," Mayor Clark added. "We have lots of capacity out there. I'm told having more waste arriving at the plant actually makes the thing work more efficiently. It's beneficial."

Community leaders in several surrounding towns are investigating whether such a concept makes fiscal sense.

Bids are due March 8, 2012 for a wastewater system upgrade in Olla.

For more information go to: www.h2bid.com/procurement-notice-151170.html

Bids are due March 8, 2012 for a sewer project in Bel Air.

For more information go to: www.h2bid.com/procurement-notice-151165.html

Bids are due February 28, 2012 for construction of the wastewater treatment plant headworks, biofilter and grit equipment project.

To view the public notice go to: http://ma.mypublicnotices.com/PublicNotice.asp?Page=PublicNotice&AdId=2665533

Mansfield Selectmen have signed a "determination of uniqueness" on a potential wastewater discharge site. The determination that the property is suitable for wastewater discharge is procedural. It does not commit the town to go through with the purchase but starts the process. The land is valued at just over $1 million.

The move comes as the town seeks more land for treated wastewater discharge in order to get a permit to expand its Norton-based sewer treatment plant. The town entered into an inter-municipal sewer district with Norton and Foxboro in 2010 and the agreement calls for the expansion of the facility.

The expansion requires doubling the discharge capacity. The plant currently treats 3.14 MGD.

The towns say future industrial and business growth depends on their ability to increase wastewater capacity.

Marion Selectmen, who are also the town’s water and sewer commissioners, heard from two engineers from CDM Smith of Providence, RI, and Marion Department of Public Works Superintendent Rob Zora, on the extensive water and sewer pipe upgrades project, and the comprehensive "bottoms up" approach of the eight-year, multi-phased $27.34 million program to replace an antiquated water pipe system and eliminate non-wastewater into the town’s wastewater treatment facility.

The engineers recommended against a piece meal approach to the public works project. Instead, they suggested taking care of the water mains and associated work to deal with leaks and inflow, then repave, which he acknowledged is difficult on residents and businesses as streets undergo sometimes prolonged reconstruction periods.

Pending Town Meeting funding approval, the four-phased project would begin in the fall of 2012 and be finished in 2020.

Phase I of the project, scheduled to begin in the fall of 2012 if approved entails installation of 6,000 linear feet of sewer, 10,900 linear feet of drains, to relieve flooding, and 7,500 linear feet of roadway. The estimated cost of the Phase I is $13.05 million, according to the CDM Smith engineers.

If all goes according to the CDM Smith’s work schedule, Phase II, a $5.05 million endeavor, will begin in 2014; Phase III, a $5.89 million undertaking, will be done in 2018, and, Phase IV, a $3.35 million outlay, will be done in 2020.

Ann Arbor has chosen Chicago-based Walsh Construction Co. to undertake the largest capital project in the city’s recent history.

City Council approved a $92.9 million construction contract with Walsh to rebuild half of its wastewater treatment plant and renovate the other half. The project could cost up to $120 million total and require five years to complete.

Walsh’s approval was the latest step in the project, which has been in planning and design stages since March 2005

The city reviewed six bids: Lakeshore Toltest Corp. - $83,302,048; Granger Construction Co. - $89,990,000; Walsh Construction Co. - $92,929,000; Walbridge - $95,380,441; Hunt/Colasanti - $99,990,000; and Barton Malow Co. $102,884,000.

Earl Kenzie, the city's wastewater treatment services manager, said Walsh, which has a regional office in downtown Detroit, had more experience than two other companies interviewed during the bidding process. Six companies bid.

Walsh recently completed two similar projects for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department with price tags of $190 million and $290 million that were done while wastewater plants continued operating.

"Those were operational plants and that’s the biggest crux of our situation: the plant has to be operating," Kenzie said. "Some of the work requires shutdowns that could affect our ability to treat wastewater … and that’s the biggest concern about having the right contractor."

The aging facility is located east of the city limits along the Huron River, mostly in Ann Arbor Township. It consists of a West Plant constructed in the 1930s and a newer East Plant built in the late 1970s. The West Plant is shut down and it will be demolished and replaced. The plant’s electrical grid and stand-by generators will also be replaced.

The plant serves about 130,000 people in the city of Ann Arbor and portions of Ann Arbor, Pittsfield and Scio townships.

Kenzie said the part of the plant that is operational can handle around 20 MGD and takes in between 18 and 18.5 MGD.

The renovations to the East Plant include rehabilitating existing flow control structures, complete demolition and replacement of primary and secondary treatment equipment, and construction of new buildings. Other improvements include installation of a new electrical distribution system and two new emergency power generators, utilities relocation, replacement of stormwater collection system equipment, installation of new roadways, and replacement of aeration systems with energy efficient blowers.

The project comes as the city completes another project replacing worn out and inefficient residual solids processing equipment and other upgrades at a cost of more than $50 million.

Recently Kalamazoo city commissioners had a first reading of proposed water and wastewater rates for 2012. City residents would see a combined 7.74 percent increase, or $5.20, on their bill if the rates are approved.

If approved, the rates would go into effect March 1.

Officials have said the higher rates fall disproportionally on city residents because the money will be used for water and wastewater upgrades in equipment.

This year, the public services department plans on installing a valve to divert the wastewater flow into another pipe if the main trunkline breaks, said Sue Foune, public services deputy director.

There will also be various repairs on water and wastewater systems throughout the year. It's all part of the departments continuous effort to improve water quality, make sure pipelines are working, and replace pipelines before a major sanitary overflow, Foune said.

The wastewater plant was built in the 1950s and was expanded in the 1980s. There are 16 water stations across the city. The system provides service to the city of Kalamazoo, and all or part of all the townships in Kalamazoo County.

Demolition of the Raritan Township Municipal Utilities Authority’s wet weather facility would make way for the construction of a new operations building as the utility continues with capital projects, but the authority decided to shelve the project after bids came in more than engineer’s estimates.

The bids ranged from $471,000 to $718,823 for a job the authority estimated would cost $398,750. HAHR Construction submitted the lowest bid, while Cypreco Industries, Inc. submitted the highest bid.

The proposed location for the new building would have required the contractor to contract with Jersey Central Power & Light to move a power line that stretches from the road, said executive director Bruce Miller.

"Everything was pretty much in line except … almost every one of them threw a big number in for that," he said. "We saw that and said, there’s no way we’re paying that kind of money for that. The wet weather facility treats borough sewage only during heavy downpours of rain when the wastewater and storm water runoff would otherwise overwhelm the capacity of the main treatment plant, Miller said.

The new operations building would include a garage, storage area and a laboratory for state-required testing. One of the large pools, where sewage is treated, would also be refurbished, Miller said. The borough is expected to pay 80 percent of the project cost.

In the meantime, the authority is considering demolishing the building and using a temporary trailer in its place until more funds become available, he said, adding that the authority’s consultant engineering firm will revisit its plans.

Meanwhile, renovations to an aging Robin Hill pump station can begin as early as the spring after the authority accepted a $732,900 bid from Coppola Services. The pump station, built in 1990 has reached the end of its useful life.

Improvements include five below-grade chambers, a manhole that will allow incoming sewage flow to divert into the station, a below-grade manhole that will house a sewage grinder, a below-ground wet well and a manhole that will house a meter that will allow the authority to monitor its sewage flow. The replacement of the sewage force main will prevent ruptures in the future, while a 14-by-18-foot double-walled masonry building will be built for the generator and new pump controls.

Construction is expected to take between six to nine months.

In other business, the authority also accepted DeMaio Electrical Company’s $1.03 million bid for the replacement of the main treatment plant’s blower system, which is part of the second phase of computerizing the plant.

The town of Caneadea has a $3.43 million loan and $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with as it plans upgrades to a 40-plus-year-old wastewater treatment plant.

"The funding will be used to improve capacity and efficiency of wastewater management and improve water quality at Caneadea Wastewater Treatment plant. Funding will also be used to replace aged parts throughout the facility," said U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., when he announced the award.

The plant serves Houghton Academy and Houghton College as well as most residences in Houghton.

MRB Group of Syracuse is the engineer on the project.

The project should go out for bid by the end of the calendar year and be completed by the end of 2013.

The Auburn city council passed a resolution recently to fund a $2.6 million wastewater treatment plant project aimed at correcting problems cited by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Director of Municipal Utilities Vicky Murphy told the councilors that most of the money would be used to repair and upgrade the plant’s overflow retention facility. When the plant receives more water than it can handle, the water is diverted to the overflow tanks. Once it stops raining, the water is gradually pumped from the tanks into the main plant for normal treatment. But if the rains continue, and the plant receives more than approximately 27 million gallons of water, the overflow facility is supposed to give the water a basic amount of treatment before it overflows into the Owasco River.

"These tanks used to be the primaries for the old plant, so it wasn’t designed to do what we’re currently using it for," Murphy said. "So what we’re doing here is to make sure the water is forced to go through each one of these tanks before it’s sent out so we can remove some of the oil and grease and the solids."

In 2010, the DEC issued a consent order to the city when elevated levels of oil, grease and chlorine were detected as water left the overflow retention facility on separate occasions between 2007 and 2009.

Murphy said $1.8 million of the requested money will be used at the facility for concrete work, a cleaning system and repairs to the gate controls, which must now be lifted manually during heavy rains. Another $800,000 will be used to design and install a new automated control system, which the plant has been without for several years.

The resolution allows the full $2.6 million to be transferred from the sewer fund to a capital projects fund.

Bids are due February 23, 2012 for construction of the Northeast Brunswick Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion.

To view the bid go to:

http://www.brunswickcountync.gov/Portals/0/bcfiles/admin/bids/bid_2012_northeast_brunswick_regional_expansion_invitation_to_bid.pdf

The village of Leipsic council was recently informed that the Ohio Economic Development Administration grant has been awarded for the wastewater treatment plant construction and the project will move forward to the bidding stage.

We're going to] have a pre-construction and a pre-bid meeting and hopefully in the next couple of months we should see improvements," informed Village Administrator Kevin Lammon.

According to the minutes of a Port Authority meeting held in August, the grant application was submitted by both the village and an area industry that required upgrades to the plant in order to process industrial effluent. The $2.3 million grant would provide the village's portion, with the remaining balance of the projected $5 million coming from the proceeds of a Community Reinvestment Agreement with said industry.

Columbus’ plan to rehabilitate its wastewater treatment plant could include an additional $282,250 of costs for a new operator building and a second chlorine chamber.

Columbus Town Council met in January and spoke with the engineer from W.K. Dickson regarding the possible additions.

Columbus is working on plans to rehabilitate its outdated wastewater treatment plant, with original estimates at $2,750,000. If the additions to the project are made, engineer estimates put the total costs at $3,032,250.

The additions to the project include a second chlorine chamber which could be added to the project to avoid having to shut down the flow in order to clean the one chamber.

Council tabled the issue and plans to discuss the additions further during its February meeting.

The project’s plans and specifications are due to the state by June 1. The town plans to advertise and receive bids in December and begin construction as early as January 2013.

North Ridgeville’s French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant would play a key role in treating sewage from the eastern portion of Lorain County under a plan being developed by 14 stakeholders, including 11 municipalities and the county government.

A workgroup, consisting of representatives of each of the communities involved as well as the Lorain County Rural Wastewater District and the Northeast Ohio area-wide Coordinating Agency, has been developing the plan for the past nine months. It was presented to government leaders and others during a January meeting in Elyria.

Gregory Osthues, an engineer with Arcadis, a consulting firm hired by the city of Lorain to help develop the plan, delivered the presentation to a room filled with mayors, council members and engineers from throughout Lorain County.

Osthues said that forming a regional sewer district would reduce costs for member communities and help them comply with federal EPA regulations regarding wastewater treatment plants. If communities approve, the new regional authority would assume control for treating sewage, but individual communities would retain responsibility for maintaining their own sewer lines.

The plan would involve sending wastewater from Lorain County’s member communities to one of two wastewater treatment plants — one planned for the west side of Lorain, and the French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is owned by North Ridgeville but situated in Sheffield Village.

Under the proposal, the French Creek plant’s maximum daily capacity would be increased from 11 MGD to nearly 48 MGD over 10 years. The plant — which treats wastewater from North Ridgeville, Avon and Sheffield Village — would expand to also accept wastewater from Lorain, Avon Lake, Elyria and the Lorain County Regional Sewer District.

Cost projections by Arcadis showed most cities would end up saving money by joining the authority.

Sheffield Village Mayor John Hunter said he wanted existing odor problems corrected at French Creek before he would entertain his community’s involvement in the regional plan. In addition, he expressed concerns about how installing new sewer lines to the French Creek plant would impact landscaping, and he said he wanted assistance in connecting homes that now have septic systems to any sewer lines that run in front of those homes.

If the plan goes forward, the discharge from the French Creek Wastewater Plant would need to be rerouted. The plant now discharges into the French Creek. However, the discharge would need to be changed to either Lake Erie or the Black River.

No decisions were made at the meeting and all community leaders attending agreed more discussion is needed.

Bids were opened February 2 for the Bascom Wastewater Treatment Plant. More than $3.8 million in bids were opened, and all were about $100,000 above estimates. The construction estimate by K.E. McCartney and Associates of Mansfield was $3.72 million. Bids were received for two contracts, one for distribution and one for collection. The engineering company will review the bids and make recommendations to the Seneca County Commissioners.

Bascom residents have been paying for the project for the last five years. The village will be part of a Seneca County Sewer District.

During a recent meeting Attica Administrator Greg Martin said Mayor Bryan Shock signed the revised findings and orders from the Ohio EPA regarding the wastewater plant. They were sent to Columbus in time for the deadline.

If the EPA signs and returns the findings and orders, the wastewater orders for the village would include an evaluation of the sludge treatment and disposal methods. Then, the village must submit a plan to reduce infiltration/inflow followed by a general plan for the wastewater treatment plant improvements. One concern with the proposed timeline is getting soil borings to test a new lagoon and acquiring property.

Bids are due February 28, 2012 for a wastewater improvement project in Monmouth.

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Bids are due March 6, 2012 for four contracts for work at the wastewater treatment plant.

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Recently, Marietta city engineer Joe Tucker asked city council's water, sewer and sanitation committee to develop legislation allowing him to apply for a $724,500 low-interest loan through the Ohio EPA’s Water Pollution Control Loan Fund for the third phase design of the city's wastewater treatment plant upgrade.

Tucker said the project's first phase, currently underway, will cost $4.26 million. The second phase is expected to have a $6.97 million price tag and a "very rough estimate" for the third phase of the project is $10 million.

A regional wastewater treatment plant serving Montgomery Borough, Muncy Borough and Muncy Creek and Clinton townships could be built and operational by 2014.

That's what Eric J. Moore, executive director of West Branch Regional Authority, said recently in an update on the planned $25 million project being planned for a location in Muncy. Construction bids for the plant should be distributed to companies early next year, with the plant completed in two years, he said. About $4 million has been received thus far toward plant construction, but the authority is seeking a low-interest loan from loaning authority PennVEST for the rest, Moore said.

The authority itself came into existence when the borough began to examine how it would comply with federal mandates to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. As early as 2005, the borough leaders looked at their own treatment plant. The Montgomery Water and Sewer Authority and Clinton Township have their own sewers, with the township dumping into a treatment plant at the Bower Street Extension.

That plant lies in a floodway and the costs to reconstruct it were astronomical, according to Moore. Not long after, Montgomery and area officials spoke with those in Muncy. Muncy has its own treatment plant that is also in a flood-prone area.

After many meetings, the West Branch Regional Authority was formed.

The Lock Haven City Council recently awarded a major bid for a new $32.7 million wastewater treatment plant.

Based on their low bids, council voted to hire Layne Christensen Co. Inc. for $20.25 million and HRI Inc. for $4.19 million for electrical construction. Both bids were the lowest of six received for each project, City Manager Rich Marcinkevage said.

The bid awards comes one week after the city earned a PennVest grant of $10 million, plus a 30-year loan for $18,074,732 at a rate of 1 percent.

The city must significantly upgrade its sanitary sewage treatment system in response to state and federal environmental mandates designed to improve the quality of water emptying into the Chesapeake Bay.

The original estimate for electrical work was between $2 million and $3 million. Marcinkevage said he wasn't sure why the bids came in much higher than that estimate, but believed all the bids came in very close.

Bids were originally opened in July, but the city had to wait for their financial package which now includes PennVest funding, before awarding them. Both contracts allowed the companies to back out after 180 days, but they both agreed to hold pending the PennVest funding.

Financing for the project also includes a $4 million H2O grant through the state Department of Community and Economic Development. The PennVest funding was good news for both the city and those in municipalities that feed into the treatment plant: Flemington and Mill Hall boroughs, and Bald Eagle, Woodward, Castanea, Lamar, Porter and Walker townships.

The construction project will not only replace buildings that date from the 1950s, but also install new wastewater treatment technology. Once this technology is in place, and the existing 1970s technology goes offline, the city's plant should do an even better job than currently required in removing harmful bionutrients from the effluent.

At a recent meeting, the Greencastle Borough Council voted to approve increasing sewer rates to $6 per 1,000 gallons. The new rates are retroactive to Jan. 1, 2012.

Borough Manager Ken Womack said the rate increase would help offset the cost of the upgrades to the borough’s wastewater treatment plant.

The upgrades are necessary to meet the new mandates requiring wastewater treatment plants to reduce the output of nitrogen, phosphorus and other chemicals as part of the effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

The borough’s engineering firm, Gannett Fleming of Camp Hill, PA estimated the cost of upgrades to be $850,000. But, the bids came in more than $250,000 higher than expected, raising the cost to $1 million.

"We have to get moving (with the upgrades)," Womack told the council. "We have to get this done by November."

The Harrisburg Authority has cut the cost of improvements to its wastewater treatment plant project in half by adopting a new project design. The $33.7 million construction cost is half the price of the conventional facility the authority proposed four years ago. The authority approved a preliminary design for the upgrade of the plant during its January meeting.

The improvements will reduce the amount of nitrogen discharged into the Chesapeake Bay by 800,000 pounds, annually, according to the authority. That would represent more than 15 percent of the total reduction goal outlined in DEP's Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy, the authority said.

The authority hopes to start construction on the upgrades by the third quarter of 2012 and have the plant operational during the second quarter of 2014.

Orangeburg County Council recently voted to have the county's administration negotiate with the low bidder for the construction of the Goodbys Wastewater Treatment Plant after the bid came in about $2 million higher than projected.

"It is the engineer's opinion that there were some options that were identified in the bid documents that would allow us to negotiate a lower price on this project while not obligating the county contractually with this particular vendor while negotiations are ongoing," County Administrator Bill Clark said.

Georgia-based Ruby Collins Inc. made the low bid for $9.3 million. The amount would include the construction of the plant and a disposal site for the effluent.

The Corps of Engineers would be responsible for funding the collection lines, Clark said.

Nine companies bid on the project, with the highest coming in at $10.4 million.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are monitoring the progress of the project as they decide what their level of funding would be, Clark said.

"We feel like we can get a better price and that would certainly be in the interest of both of our federal partners who are looking to assist us with funding," he said.

Any final bid would have to come before council for approval.

About 175 miles of Knoxville's wastewater system has been replaced or rehabilitated in a massive project intended to stop sewage overflows, improve waterways and help the city cope with growth.

The Partners Acting for a Cleaner Environment (PACE 10) program is a 10-year, $530 million effort launched in 2004 in response to a federal mandate to comply with the Clean Water Act.

Julie Childers, vice president for engineering of the Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB), said the project is on budget and on schedule.

When complete, it will have replaced or rehabilitated about 350 miles of the utility's sewage system, or about 25 percent of the existing lines. Upgrades to two wastewater treatment plants added another $120 million in costs.

Childers said the work on Knoxville's sewer lines will continue at the current pace of $30 million per year, or two percent of the system, even after the PACE 10 project is complete.

In 2004, KUB came under a federal consent decree requiring that it improve the wastewater system and decrease sewage overflows. The decree was filed in February 2005.

PACE 10 was divided into 134 collection system projects. Of the 126 that must be finished by June 2013, 107 are complete, 17 are under construction and two are in design. The remaining eight projects must be complete by 2016. Of those, three are complete, one is under construction and four are in design.

The $650 million PACE 10 program was funded through $450 million in bonds and by increasing KUB's rates.

The Mosheim Board of Mayor and Aldermen met recently to consider proposed options for the town's wastewater treatment plant.

During the workshop, board members discussed three options for the wastewater treatment plant: no change; closing the plant and connecting the town and its industries to a proposed multi-municipality treatment line originating in Lowland; or updating the town's plant to accommodate the anticipated increased usage by US Nitrogen when the liquid ammonium nitrate manufacturing facility becomes operational.

The board approved a motion to start applying for grants to help with the cost of upgrading the town's plant.

Bids are due March 5, 2012 for water and wastewater and stormwater utility engineering services.

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Four years after Winlock built a $12 million sewage treatment plant, the plant and sewer system continue to trouble the city and pollute the Cowlitz River. Twice in January the plant discharged partially treated sewage directly into Olequa Creek, which flows into the Cowlitz.

The plant continues to rack up violations for failing to treat sewage adequately. No one knows for sure how to fix the problems or who is responsible. Meanwhile, the city has used a lot of overtime for the sole operator to keep the plant running, and the warranty on the plant's components has expired.

For now, the state Department of Ecology has held off fining the city for violations, in part because the penalties would make it difficult for the city to repair the plant. The agency has not set a formal deadline for the plant to come into compliance.

Built in 2008, the plant filters out solids before circulating the wastewater through a system of filtration panels. Along the way, beneficial bacteria eat harmful pathogens and other pollutants. From the beginning, plant operators noticed small things that were incomplete, missing, or poorly designed. "This plant has not run right from day one," lamented Marty Martinson, the operator who has overseen the running of the plant since last December.

Two chronic problems have plagued the system. During heavy rain and snow melt events, the sewer system is overwhelmed with runoff. City officials have nOt determined where stormwater is leaking into the sanitary sewer system. The sewage treatment plant usually can handle the daily flow of 300,000 gallons of wastewater, but stormwater infiltration overwhelms the system with up to 1 MGD. This happened twice in January. To avoid overflowing the holding tanks, the plant was forced to bypass partially treated sewage into Olequa Creek.

The other problem is that he plant's complex system of 11,000 filtration panels have failed when they are needed most, particularly during periods of high stormwater infiltration. The plant's operators have cleaned the panels and called in outside experts, but so far, the reason the filters clog is undetermined. The filter problem has delayed treatment of large volumes of sewage sitting in holding tanks since the January snowstorm.

In January, the city hired a consultant to make recommendations. In February city officials will meet with Gibbs & Olson, the Longview engineering firm that designed the plant, and others to develop a plan.

Capital Regional District staff said recently they expect the provincial and federal governments to announce funding approval for their portions of the $782-million secondary sewage treatment project by the spring.

Jack Hull, project manager for the regional plan, told the committee, "We are actively working with B.C. and Canada on finalizing the funding arrangement."

The project has been in limbo since the fall, when the province approved the region's plan to provide secondary sewage treatment. Currently, sewage is sieved through a six-millimetre metal screen before it is piped into the ocean. The province mandated that secondary sewage treatment be in place by 2016. The region has worked on the treatment plan for years. However, before it can proceed, the senior levels of government must commit in writing to the funding.

Although the province mandated treatment be in place by 2016 it is no longer possible. If funding approval comes this spring, construction could start by 2013 with completion of all facilities by early 2018.

The approved treatment plan calls for a liquids-only treatment plant at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt. Sludge left after the liquid is extracted would be piped 18 kilometres to a biosolids digestion facility at Hartland landfill in Saanich. Underground storage tanks will be built in Saanich in Cadboro Bay.

Kasabonika’s sewage treatment plant has been polluting Kasabonika Lake with sewage for more than 10 years on one side of the community’s island home, while drinking water is brought in to serve the community’s needs from the other side of the island.

Abraham Wabasse oversees Kasabonika’s treatment plant, where he says the sewage from the houses should be cleaned and drinkable by the time it reaches the lake, but it’s not. "There’s too much wastewater coming through the community, and (the sewage treatment plant) is too small to take care of it," he said.

The design capacity of the plant is 170,000 liters a day, but the demand is 306,000 liters a day as of 2004. At times, the sewage plant becomes so overwhelmed that the raw sewage leaks out the door and drains into the nearby lake, which occurred as recently as October 2011. Because the sewage treatment plant is always at capacity, the First Nation has not connected new houses to the water systems.

The excess sewage from the plant and sewage from the homes not connected to the water pipelines has to be trucked off the island to a lagoon. The community applied for a permit to use the land as a lagoon, then went ahead illegally and built the lagoon without approval.

Since the sewage treatment plant first began flooding in 1999, the cleanliness of the water has been a constant concern, said Mitchell Diabo, community projects manager. "People are wondering about the water quality in Kasabonika Lake, which surrounds this island," Diabo said.

Diabo said the community has been looking to have research done by a team from the University of Ottawa to determine if the sewage is creating a problem at the water intake, but have not had any success in accessing $50,000 in funding for the first phase of the research project.

Wastewater treatment for Abbotsford, Mission, Sumas and Langley, B.C. will receive a substantial upgrade with $8.1 million from Canada's Gas Tax Fund.

The Joint Abbotsford Mission Environmental System (JAMES) Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrades will increase the plant’s handling capacity by 61 percent and improve the quality of the treated effluent discharged into the Fraser River. It is anticipated the upgrades will also allow the plant to meet or exceed both municipal sewage regulations, as well as address anticipated federal regulations.

The plant will gain a new primary effluent pump station, secondary clarifier, biological sludge pump station, effluent pump station and waste solids thickener.

The total cost of the project is estimated to be $18.9 million, with the remaining costs to be covered through other funding programs or user rates.

Owen Sound’s share of the $45 million cost to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant is to be paid solely with revenue from sewage rates, which are set to increase by 11 percent annually until 2015 and 5 percent annually from 2016 to 2020.

The city’s cost is expected to be about $15 million. Most of that will be debentured and paid back over time. The city, province and federal government are each paying $15 million toward the plant upgrade.

The plan is to upgrade the sewage plant from a primary level of treatment to secondary. Once complete, Owen Sound will be the last community on the Great Lakes to have moved up from the most basic level of treatment. An environmental assessment for the project is almost finished, operations director Brad McRoberts said. A final EA report is expected in about a month. McRoberts said and the EA has concluded that the existing site of Owen Sound’s primary treatment plant is the ideal location for the secondary system. Both will be used together. Wastewater will be treated first by the existing system and then move on to the secondary system.

The city has scaled down the project from $60 million to $45 million. The upgraded plant will meet provincial and federal requirements for wastewater effluent, and also have additional storage capacity. The city plans to use a biological aerated filtration process. Pilot studies on two systems are now underway at the treatment plant. Secondary treatment will significantly improve the quality of water being discharged into Georgian Bay. Less suspended solids, ammonia and phosphorus will enter the water and chlorine discharge will be eliminated.

The city plans to seek proposals for the design phase of the project later this year. Construction is expected to begin in 2014 and be completed in early 2016.

A proposed new wastewater treatment plant for Delhi in Norfolk County, Ontario will cost $9 million.

RV Anderson was hired to upgrade the 65 year old treatment plant, but determined it would be cheaper to simply build a new one.

Spokesman David Evans says there are risks with an upgrade because you have to work around existing, aging tanks and other structures and you never know what you may find when digging, including hidden damage to the plant.

Evans estimates it would cost more than $9 million to upgrade the treatment plant, while it would be just more than $8 million to construct a new plant, one which he says would also alleviate most concerns about odor.

Councilors have asked for a report from staff, before making a final decision.

Calgon Carbon Corporation's Ultraviolet (UV) Technologies Division announced that it received conditional acceptance of its C(3)500 (now the C(3)500D), a wastewater disinfection system that utilizes ultraviolet light, from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). The conditional acceptance permits the sale of Calgon Carbon's UV equipment into states where the majority of water reuse activity is expected to occur.

The CDPH Drinking Water Program's Water Recycling Committee (WRC) found that the Calgon Carbon C(3)500D UV disinfection system meets the coliform and virus disinfection criteria found in Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) for recycled waters that have received treatment through a tertiary filtration process accepted by CDPH.

The C(3)500D utilizes calibrated germicidal UV sensors to monitor the performance of the system and control the power output to the UV lamps. These sensors ensure the required dose is continuously applied while reducing the operation and maintenance costs of the C(3)500D. Calgon Carbon is only one of two manufacturers of open-channel UV systems that utilize this cost saving approach.

The WRC reviewed the "Calgon Carbon C(3)500D Wastewater UV Reactor Validation Report" (Carollo Engineers, January 2010), which contains the bioassay results of testing in Stockton, California. The results were analyzed in accordance with the 2003 Ultraviolet Disinfection Guidelines for Drinking Water and Water Reuse published by the National Water Research Institute/AWWA Research Foundation (NWRI).

Recycled waters meeting these stringent microbiological standards can be used for the irrigation of crops and golf courses, recreational waters, and other non-potable applications. Disinfection with UV light is an important part of the treatment process.

Water scarcity and demand are driving growth of the water reuse market. This conditional acceptance opens the California market to the C(3)500 and also to states that look to the CDPH regarding technology approvals, including Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and Hawaii.

In-Pipe Technology^® Company, Inc. announced today that the Town of Mt. Airy, MD has selected In-Pipe to provide professional, green sewer collection system services to the Mt. Airy Wastewater Treatment Plant and sewer collection system to control fats, oils and grease (FOG), reduce operating and maintenance costs, increase plant capacity by influent sludge reduction and improve enhanced nutrient removal (ENR).

In-Pipe’s patented technology includes regularly adding a high concentration formulation of facultative, naturally-occurring, non-pathogenic bacteria to strategic locations throughout the sewer system in accordance with an engineered plan. This entails zero capital cost and no additional energy requirement. Performance in the collection system provides increased capacity within the plant, forestalls costly upgrades, and extends the life of the existing infrastructure.

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