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Water‑reclamation basins repaired after failures; both basins back online, superintendent says
Summary
Officials said two biological basins at the city's wastewater plant failed last year; operators and contractors completed a yearlong recovery and cleaning program and returned both basins to service while maintaining permit compliance.
Trace Tidwell, superintendent of Livingston's Water Reclamation Facility, told the City Commission the plant has recovered from a pair of similar mechanical failures and that both secondary treatment basins are back in service after a year of repairs, cleaning and parts replacement.
"We have both basins fully maintenanced and back up and operational, through their seven‑year maintenance program that was forced," Tidwell said during his presentation.
Tidwell described the failure sequence: Basin 2 suffered a catastrophic failure in October 2024 and, within weeks, technicians detected the same failure…
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