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Century Looks For Mystery Wastewater
September 19, 2010
An influx of stormwater into the Town of Century’s water treatment is causing problems for the town, and plans are being created to alleviate the problem.
The town’s wastewater treatment system is capable of treating 650,ooo gallons per day, but it is only permitted for 425,000 gallons per day.
“We are right at the borderline now,” Century Mayor Freddie McCall said. “We are treating too much water, and we can’t find it.”
McCall and the town’s engineer, Dale Long, believe that tens of thousands of gallons of water is being treated that leaks in to the system — from rainwater or even from streams. When the town replaced a culvert on Elm Street, a two-foot break in the sewer line was found near a creek crossing, allowing groundwater in.
The town will pay Fabre Engineering up to $7,000 to prepare contract documents to put qualified contractors “on call” to repair system problems as needed. That, according to Long, will save repair delays for the bidding process since the repair process will be pre-bid.
“If you have a problem you will have somebody on call,” Long said. “They are giving us basically line item prices for specific tasks.”
The town also plans to hire a firm to use video cameras to inspect the inside of the wastewater system.
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4 Responses to “Century Looks For Mystery Wastewater”
REGARDING:
“, believe that tens of thousands of gallons of water is being treated that leaks in to the system ”
I would imagine checking power demand at each lift station should narrow down the source of influx, especially if the high demand is a recent thing. Say it took ten thousand kilowatt hours at one station two years ago but is taking twenty thousand kilowatt hours this year, it is doing twice what it was. Unless there are that much more users, most likely the extra work is from pumping inflitrating water.
Failing that, they should have some idea how much energy is needed to pump average demand based on number of homes or even metered water consumption. Any station pumping more than that is a likely problem area.
And then there’s the fact that people tend to use water less at certain times of the day or night whereas leaks continue. Just see where light usage times still see plenty of demand, that is likely a problem area.
David thinking
Our Federal Government does not have any interest in saving small towns, small schools, small businesses, or small anything. The federal gov’t desire is to have everyone move into the Big cities. They can keep track of us better there. They can box us up on top of each other in high rise complexes. Send our kids to huge schools where no one knows their name. Take away our need for automobiles, and transport us by bus or rail. Take a good look around. Do they save small businesses? NO. They save only those “too big to fail.” Don’t you see? “Small” is disappearing.
7000 $ to prepare contract documents to put qualified contrators on call? Really? What about the City Employees you already have? Im sure they would enjoy some overtime pay. Seems like Mr. Long and Fabre Engineering are sucking the city into a bunch of unneeded stuff lately. And Im still waitng to see the reason behind the Pressure Boosting Station on Stateline Road. Why boost the pressure when you have to decrease it further down? Just another money hole from the engineering firm.
It would seem that Century, like many small towns, is trying to improve itself, but faces an aging infrastructure that prohibits growth in commercial sector. Could this wastewater issue be the REAL reason behind the catfish plant changing it’s tune? Or so many other business ventures drying up?
I would think the government with it’s “shovel ready” stimulus projects it boasted of, could help Century and other towns out with these issues. Otherwise, Century will always be stuck in the current rut.