WWTP Completed Second Year of 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan
Crews at HU’s wastewater treatment plant have replaced the west screw pump – which lifts 2,400 gallons of influent wastewater each minute and dumps it into oxidation ditches at the plant – along with several smaller repairs around the screw pump. According to Robert Wright, HU Sanitary Sewer System Superintendent, when the project was completed in February 2011 this completed all budgeted improvement items for the fiscal year, and brought the wastewater treatment plant up-to-date with repairs and improvements included in the 2007 Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan.
In addition to replacing the 33-foot screw pump, one of three at the plant, contractors from Sue-Jac Construction replaced damaged and missing handrails around the screw pump, replaced the lower platform grading, repaired the sluice gate to the pump, and installed fall protection around the ladder leading up to the screw pump.