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Plant staff complete aeration basin overhaul; blower replacement, outfall rebid and probes planned
Summary
Operations staff finished aeration basin maintenance including replacing 1,875 diffusers, scheduled a new blower arrival in mid‑August 2025, will finish nutrient probe installation and will repackage an effluent outfall bid after no bidders in 2024; an associate engineer position was added to the FY25–26 budget.
Plant operations staff told the Pinole‑Hercules Wastewater Subcommittee on July 10 that they completed a major aeration‑basin maintenance campaign, are scheduling replacement of a failed blower, will finish installing nutrient probes and plan to reissue an effluent‑outfall contract this summer after a 2024 bid received no offers.
Josh Binder, wastewater treatment plant manager, described the aeration basin work as an intensive maintenance and cleaning campaign that included removing and replacing 1,875 air diffusers and vacuuming settled debris from the tank bottom. “That was quite a large task the staff completed,” he said, and staff showed…
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