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Mayor outlines EPA-mandated LTCP, new treatment technology and grant-funded sewer work
Summary
Tiffin’s mayor said the city is moving forward on an EPA-mandated Long Term Control Plan estimated at $160 million, that new high-rate treatment technology will cut the price by about $20 million, and that recent sewer projects were heavily funded by loan forgiveness and grants.
Mayor (name not specified) said Tiffin is proceeding with a federally driven Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) to reduce sanitary sewer overflows and comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requirements, and that recent technical and funding choices have substantially changed the city’s cost profile.
The mayor told an audience at the State of the City event that the LTCP remains the “big heavy lift” and that the full plan was estimated at $160,000,000. He said newer high-rate treatment (HRT) technology and a shortened main interceptor alignment will markably reduce costs: “this should save us about 20,000,000,” he said.
The plan’s scope includes interceptors and storage components…
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