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<br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JANUARY 24, 1984 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />possible decisions regarding the expansion of the two existing treatment <br />plants to 8.0 MGD capacity." <br /> <br />But it didn't turn out that way. Overman led the discussion at the meeting <br />and presented a variety of old, new and semi-new possibilities to support <br />the basic idea of diverting to Koehler first. More complicating to the <br />City's previous thinking, the third-plant idea clearly seemed to pose the <br />possibility that P.S.A. might never buy any part of the expanded capacity <br />of the City plant. These developments required the City staff and <br />engineers to return to the old drawing board. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Additional Treatment and <br />Odor Control Improvements <br /> <br />When Wiley & Wilson reported to the Council on November 15, 1983, it <br />was clearly stated that certain improvements in solids handling should <br />be made to our plant in response to continuing odor problems, "whether <br />the plant is expanded at this time or not". Those improvements <br />included: <br /> <br />Item <br /> <br />Total Cost <br /> <br />1. Additional digester capacity <br />and control building <br /> <br />$1,062,900 <br /> <br />2. Covers, scrubbers, etc., for <br />existing equipment <br /> <br />336,800 <br /> <br />Total <br /> <br />$1,399,700 <br /> <br />This proposal has been questioned in various ways ever since. Why, <br />it is asked, are we going to have to spend $1,399,700 when we spent <br />$1,535,875 back in 1981-82 for "interim" improvements to "respond <br />to the odor problems at the plant"? <br /> <br />The answer requires a review of the nature of the "interim" <br />improvements and the context within which those improvements were <br />constructed. Recall that those improvements were a part of <br />projected overall plant improvements and related only to the <br />sludge handling stream at the plant (air flotation units to float <br />and thicken the solids on their way to the digesters and belt <br />filter presses to dewater the sludge prior to disposal at the <br />landfill) and because these improvements could be made fairly <br />quickly. But more importantly they were made with the idea in <br />everyone's mind that expansion of the plant (to 12.0 MGD) would <br />be following immediately. <br /> <br />In spite of the fact that the expansion got waylaid, as previously <br />described, the truth is that the "interim" improvements have done <br />the job they were designed to do and odor complaints have been <br /> <br />') ! <br />f-" \ <br />