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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1982 -- will not participate in the cost of expanding the City's treatment facility to the proposed 12 mgd capacity but, instead, proposes the expanding of the PSA's Koehler plant from 4 mgd to 8 mgd, an alternative the City's consulting enginners (Wiley & Wilson) consider as being an apparent cost-effective approach to the twenty-year sewage flow needs of the area while achieving utilization of both jurisdictions' existing facilities. Under such an alternative, the City's consulting engineers concluded that the City would need to expand its treatment plant from its present 6 mgd rating to 8-or-9 mgd and, too, recommended that a supplemental report (to Wiley & Wilson's Upgrade Study of August, 1981), reflecting this reduction from the initially proposed expansion, be filed with the regulatory agencies involved for their review and comments, the nature of which could have a significant impact on the actual scope of proposed improvements and the related costs required at the PSA's (Koehler) Upper Smith River Wastewater Treatment Facilities. City Manager Edmonds reported that he and certain staff personnel, as a result of recent court cases as well as citizen inquiry, particularly an inquiry recently received from Mr. Edgar H. Dietrich, of 218 Arrowhead Trail, are presently studying the City's noise control and/or noise abatement ordinances in an effort to develop recommended ordinance amendments (for Council's consideration in the near future) which will be more definitively enforceable and, at the same time, reflect cognizance (as Mr. Dietrich pointed out in a personal appearance before Council) of on-going efforts to improve the qualities of life through such conveniences and/or necessities as heat pumps and other outside appliances which, to one degree or another, generate objectionable noises, particularly in residential areas. City Manager Edmonds reported that the Municipal Electric Power Associate of Virginia (i.e., MEPAV) has been awarded a license for the U. S. Corps of Engineers' FISHTRAP electric generation project (estimated at 5 megawatt capacity and located in Pike County, Kentucky) and, also, that efforts are underway to persuade the Virginia General Assembly to amend the Electric Authorities Act to the extent of removing therefrom a local referendum requirement on certain proposed electric generating projects.