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Wastewater
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In an hour-and-a-half presentation and Q & A session, Herbert F. White, president of an engineering firm, WW Associates, outlined three possible wastewater treatment options for the town, one of which involves discharging treated water into the Rush River.
“It was an extremely interesting presentation,” Mayor Leggett said in an interview. “Initially you say 'we are not going to dump sewage into the Rush River,’ but that could ultimately be the best option.”
“Our discharge will not contaminate the river," White said. “The water will be cleaner than the river it’s going into."
The mayor noted that the Rush River is a “Tier Two” stream in the middle of a scale on the EPA’s stream impairment classification meaning that it already has some pollutants in it.
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SperryviUe
Comparisons were made with the SperryviUe plant which discharges into the Thornton River.
Council member Jeff Benson noted that “the Thornton River is a Tier Three (most impaired) going into SperryviUe.”
“The Thornton River is impaired by low dissolved oxygen,” Mayor Leggett said. “The Spenyville plant doesn’t affect the Thornton.”
White acknowledged that, though the treatment and discharge is the most economical of the options, it does have the
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