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:10 TUESDAY MARCH 25, 1980 Mulberry Road) pertaining to offensive odors emanating from the City's Water Pollution Control (Sewage Treatment) Plant located across Smith River from this area, Council received a verbal report from Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown, reviewing the history of the plant, its regional concept, its present operations, including a recent review thereof and the plant design by Wiley & Wilson, the City's consulting engineers who designed the plant, problems recently incurred upon the recent conversion to secondary treatment and the adding of waste from the Bassett-Walker plant upstream, plus a possible solution not only to the current problem but to its potential in the future. Present at this meeting, too, was Mr. William W. Parks, of the State's Air Pollution Control Board, who indicated that his agency will forthwith bring in instruments to locate the source of offensive odors and measure to the degree their instrumentation permits. Vice-Mayor Cole then offered the following prepared statement, which was concurred in by Mr. Hodges: (1) Last Friday, 3/21/80, I was given the opportunity to inspect the Bassett-Walker lagoon. I also inspected a portion of the City plant and the Henry County PSA plant at Koehler. (2) I concluded that there are some odors coming from the lagoon if one stands downwind. The odor is not as strong as I have noticed in the past but it is the same odor which I will identify as industrial dye since 90% of the lagoon's contents are from industry. The P.S.A. might consider purchasing a spare aerator in case one of the five fails. This lagoon is now pumping approximately one million gallons of sewage per day to the City plant. (3) TheP.S.A. plant at Koehler is impressive. Except at the spot where the raw waste comes in, the entire area is odor free. This is a 4.0 m.g.d. plant operating at 50% capacity. The plant is well located and well designed. It has a chlorination system which treats the solids which are then pumped to two settling ponds. The water drains off of these ponds, leaving an inert material which will be disposed of in a land fill. These ponds are practically odor free. It was pointed out to me that this plant has an extra lagoon, equipped with three aerators, which is not in use. In fact, there was considerable evidence throughout the plant that expansion had been planned for.