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I) ( ,"'" " TUESDAY MARCH 27, 1984 -- the PSA's "Koehler" treatment plant) and for expansion of the PSA's Upper Smith River ("Koehler") Wastewater Treatment Plant, Council reviewed with Mayor Cole this proposed letter, with Mayor Cole posing the question as to whether, for the City's ratepayers, it is better for the City to "divert" or to expand its Smith River treatment plant, mean- while noting that some $1,500,000.00 has already been expended for "interim improvements" at the City's plant (which has helped alleviate odor problems at this plant) and that some $1,062,000.00 are yet requrred for odor-control improvements (i.e., to double the digester-retention capacity, etc.), which, if expended, Mayor Cole asked that assurance be given that there will be no more offensive odors emanating from the City's plant. Representing Wiley & Wilson (the City's consulting engineers on this project), Mr. Tom E. Crush informed Council that the recommended odor-control improvements (irrespective of "diversion" to the PSA's plant, which he indicated will not solve the odor problem over the long range and/or irrespective of expanding the City's plant) will vastly reduce the likelihood of offensive odors from the City's plant in the future; however, Mr. Crush could not completely assure against some odor problems in the future because of unknown sludge-flows and other unknown factors. And, in response to a query from Mr. Thomas J. Womack (of 200 Fourth Street), Mr. Crush indicated that the cost of installing equipment to guarantee odor-free operations would be prohibitive. Meanwhile, Mr. S. E. Moran, a member of the Henry County Board of Supervisors and a member of the Henry County Public Service Authority, noting that the PSA's "Koehler" plant is so designed as to encounter no odor problems, suggested that the City divert its (or some of its) Jones Creek Interceptor load to the PSA's "Koehler" plant and, as an alternative if that ".....doesn't work", the City enlarge its treatment plant but, in any event, the City and the PSA work to- gether in solving area wastewater treatment needs. Mayor Cole, after inquiring as to the possibility of the City's arranging a "pay-as-needed" agreement for diversion and expressing some doubt as to when the City needs to expand its treatment plant (in light of future flows from elsewhere in Henry County and the possibility of the PSA constructing