$2.65M expansion for sewage treatment plant
To open up space at the city’s crowded public works yard, city staff recommend spending another $2.65 million at the sewage treatment plant on top of the $19.75-million upgrade that’s underway.
The additional work at the waste water treatment plant would allow the city to move its sanitary sewer team, with its 12 employees, seven vehicles and equipment, to the facility on Kennedy Rd. from the public works yard on Townsend St.
The proposed plan goes to city council’s committee of the whole meeting Monday.
The current system works well with both groups fully integrated and no overlap of duties between the waste water treatment plant managed by the environmental protection division and the sewer team under public works, utility services director Wayne Jackson states.
“The main thrust to amalgamate the two groups and house them at the (waste water treatment plant), however, is to gain some space at the Townsend St. yard for other public works oper- ations,” he states.
Jackson wants to accomplish that by rolling the amalgamation of the two services into the $19.75-million upgrade of the facility that’s in the design phase.
That upgrade, which was approved in the city’s 2013 budget, will add larger storage tanks and a screening facility to the treatment plant as part of the city’s efforts to reduce sewage backup into homes and bypasses that release untreated or partially treated sewage into the river.
Building facilities for the amalgamated sanitary sewer crew would add $2.65 million to the project.
Other work would increase the budget by another $1.1 million.
In total, the budget for the upgrades would increase to $23.41 million from $19.75 million.
The city would add the detained design and contract administration for the new work to the contract it already has with R.V. Anderson, increasing the cost of that service to $2,340,199 from $1,688,839.
NOTE: The committee of the whole meeting starts at 6:45 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall, 500 George St. N.