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Advisory board debates gravity vs. low-pressure sewer design; no formal recommendation adopted
Summary
Board members discussed using gravity sewer where feasible and low-pressure systems elsewhere; motions were proposed and withdrawn and a final motion failed for lack of a second, leaving design approach undecided.
Members of the Town of Lake Placid Utility Advisory Board discussed whether future sewer work should favor gravity systems where feasible and low-pressure (pressure) sewer elsewhere, but the board did not adopt a binding recommendation at this meeting.
Staff and board members agreed gravity systems are a long-established approach, but engineering and cost considerations often make low-pressure systems less expensive in the town’s flat, variable-topography…
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