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County engineers propose new Valley View wastewater plant; Legislature authorizes WQIP grant application
Summary
Delaware Engineering presented a plan for a new 250,000-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment plant for the Valley View campus, estimating roughly $24 million in costs and a multi-year schedule; the Health & Mental Health Committee authorized an application to the state's Water Quality Improvement Program (WQIP) to seek grant funding.
Delaware Engineering on Tuesday told the Orange County Health and Mental Health Committee that the county should build a new 250,000-gallon-a-day wastewater treatment plant for the Valley View campus rather than try to upgrade the existing, aging plant.
Mary Bethany, a partner at Delaware Engineering, said the existing facility “is not suitable for upgrade for long term regulatory compliance.” She told legislators the current plant — permitted for 126,000 gallons per day with an average daily flow of about 31,000 gallons and a maximum month flow used for planning of about 49,000 gallons — struggles to meet both current and newly tightened New York State Department of Environmental Conservation permit limits for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and ammonia nitrogen.
The engineering team proposed constructing a new plant on former filter-bed land across Jessup Switch Road, using technology consistent with other county projects and reusing the existing outfall into the Wallkill River. The firm estimated a total project cost of about $24,000,000, and described a…
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