As you may know, the City has been working on updating our waste water treatment system. This has been on going for many years with a deadline of December 2026. It is mandatory that we, and every other city in the US, do this to comply with DNR/EPA standards.
After much research and many meetings, we have selected the FlowPoint system based out of Canada. Although, it’s somewhat new to this area, it’s quite prominent throughout Canada. It’s a more efficient and cost-effective system than those presented in the past. When we say more cost-effective, we mean by approximately $3,000,000. The initial system was estimated to cost the city in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 plus $35,000/year to maintain. The FlowPoint system is coming in at around $2,500,000 with $12,000/year to maintain.
Thanks largely to the tireless efforts of our mayor, who now knows more about sewer than he ever wanted to, we are coming closer to breaking ground. This new system will be located near the current lagoons west of town. It will look something similar to a storage container, but inside that container will be a complex system for flushing our waste water to the point that it meets EPA standards before it flows into Pigeon Creek.
We will be scheduling a public meeting soon to inform you further of the project and answer any questions you may have.