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Engineer outlines low‑pressure sewer design to connect lakeshore properties to Aurora treatment plant; county district formation anticipated
Summary
MRB engineer Tim Carpenter described a low‑pressure sewer plan to serve about 450 lakefront homes between the village of Aurora and the Tompkins County line, said design work is underway and said the engineering team will ask the Legislature to form a county sewer district after the mapping and plan report are complete.
Tim Carpenter, an engineer with MRB out of Rochester, updated the Legislature on a design for a low‑pressure sewer system to serve shoreline properties along Cayuga Lake between the village of Aurora and the Tompkins County line.
Carpenter said the system would connect roughly 450 homes and cottages that now rely on septic or holding tanks to the village of Aurora wastewater treatment plant. The design work is under way and MRB expects to complete the mapping and plan report by…
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