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Wastewater Treatment Plant The city continues to see progress on the wastewater treatment plant. The new plant is south and east of the Industrial Park and will be primarily 3 different lagoons. The new plant was necessary because the discharge from the old plant no longer met the requirements of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Waste will continue to go to the site of the old plant for flow measurement. Water treatment will be moved from the old site to the lagoons. A pair of pipes has been installed from the existing plant to the lagoon. One pipe will send wastewater from the old plant site to the lagoon. The other pipe will bring return effluent from the lagoons to the discharge point which is near the existing plant. The three lagoons comprise a large foot print east of town. The three basins will have depths from 5 to 13 feet for the proper treatment process to occur. As the water completes its treatment process, it is pumped back to the site of the old plant and discharged. The contractor is APAC-Kansas of El Dorado.
Their bid was $2,342,266. Interim funding comes from the KDHE Revolving
Loan Program. Once construction is finished, The Rural Development Agency
(RDA) will finance the total project.
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