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Seaford moves forward on $47M wastewater upgrade; council approves SRF loan authorization
Summary
City presentation laid out a three‑phase plan to upgrade and expand Seaford's wastewater plant to 3 MGD using membrane bioreactor technology; council unanimously authorized acceptance of a Delaware SRF loan to fund the project.
City engineers and consultant GMB presented a multiyear, three‑phase plan June 24 to upgrade and expand the Seaford wastewater treatment plant to a 3 million gallons per day (MGD) capacity and to replace aging equipment. Council then unanimously authorized the city to accept a long‑term loan from the Delaware Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to finance the work.
Chris Derbyshire, project engineer with GMB, said the recommended treatment approach is a membrane bioreactor system and emphasized that "the membrane bioreactor alternative was the recommended alternative" after reviewing five alternatives. He said the plant had been effectively derated from its original 2 MGD design to about 1.3 MGD after the state's watershed implementation planning process and that ongoing negotiated nutrient allocations allowed the plant to…
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