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Woodbury officials say long-term water plant will ease PFAS but bring years of construction and road disruptions
Summary
City leaders told residents the planned water treatment plant and pipeline network will permanently address PFAS in the drinking water but will require multi-year construction, large financing and ongoing traffic impacts; a city bond sale this month produced favorable interest results.
Mayor Burt and city engineers on Wednesday told residents that Woodbury is building a permanent water treatment plant to remove PFAS from the city’s drinking water, but cautioned the work will cause substantial construction and traffic disruptions through 2028.
City leaders said the plant, associated piping and related work are expected to cost in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars and that most of the project is covered by existing financing. “We are currently removing PFAS from the water using temporary treatment facilities,” Mayor Burt said. “These temporary systems were not designed to last a century. We are now building a plant that will last a century.”
The city said the overall effort includes moving water from about 20 wells through roughly 17 miles of new pipeline to centralize treatment at the new plant near East Ridge High School. Director…
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