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City reports higher MWPP score but rising overflows; council sends annual report to DEQ
Summary
Consultant David Curtis told the Covington City Council the city's wastewater treatment plant recorded no permit violations in 2024, raised its MWPP score to 90 from 72.5, and that the plant exceeded its 2.5-million-gallon design capacity several times last year; council unanimously adopted a resolution to transmit the MWPP audit to the Louisiana
The Covington City Council accepted the city's Municipal Wastewater Pretreatment Program (MWPP) audit and voted to transmit the report to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, after hearing that the city's wastewater treatment plant had no permit violations in 2024 but had experienced increased inflow and overflows in parts of the collection system.
David Curtis of Curtis Environmental, who conducts the MWPP audit, told the council the plant's design capacity is 2,500,000 gallons per day and that the facility exceeded that flow several times in 2024. "The good news is how good y'all's…
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