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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1988 <br /> <br />Notice that the Virginia Department of Waste Management has <br />approved a litter control grant of $9,702.00 for <br />Martinsville, Henry County, and Ridgeway, for fiscal <br />1988-89, to be administered by the Martinsville-Henry County <br />Clean Community Commission; and <br /> <br />A comprehensive Personnel Office Report for the City's <br />fiscal year ended June 30, 1988. <br /> <br />Verbally, City Manager Brown reported on the status of on-going studies and <br />procedures by which the City might comply, as it must by January 1, 1990 <br />(initially, by January 1, 1989, but extended by a "consent order"), with <br />regulations and requirements of the State Water Control Board for the removal <br />of "color" (emanating from the color-dyeing processes in use by several local <br />textile plants) from wastewater before being discharged from the City's Water <br />Pollution Control Plant on and into Smith River. Mr. Brown reported that the <br />capital cost will be quite expensive (estimated to be $6,000,000.00) and that <br />studies are currently underway by the involved local industrial firms (inasmuch <br />as they are aware of the fact that they must bear such cost, whether directly <br />for pre-treatment facilities and process or indirectly in the event the City <br />constructs and operates such facilities), in conjunction with the City and the <br />State Water Control Board, to ascertain the less-expensive method, viz., <br />private facilities and pre-treatment or City facilities and treatment. Mr. <br />Brown noted, too, that the aforesaid ".consent order" extension was issued to <br />allow for the completion of the studies and to select and +install necessary <br />equipment. The aforesaid cost estimate has been predicated on a procedure <br />identified as an "ozone" system for which, presumably, the City would provide <br />the "capital cost" equipment and the treatment, whereas another method <br />(information on which has just become available and known to the local Tultex <br />Corporation, owner-operator of one of the local textile plants) was described <br />as a "chlorine" system which, whether used by the textile.plants in the <br /> <br /> <br />