Consultants tell Pembroke Park consolidation, pipe repairs could cut costs as sewer system nears capacity

Dan, an engineering consultant presenting the Town of Pembroke Park’s wastewater master plan, told commissioners the town’s sanitary system grew piecemeal and now contains many small lift stations that raise long‑term operation and maintenance costs. “There’s a whole lot of infrastructure that could be consolidated,” Dan said, pointing to clusters of lift stations around 30th Avenue and in the town’s southeast.

The plan shows many short, aging sewer runs and numerous small lift stations originally installed for mobile home parks. That layout, the consultant said, increases pump runtime, electric costs and pump wear; in several places a gravity sewer replacement would allow abandonment of multiple lift stations and reduce costs. As an example, he said the 30th Avenue area could be reduced from about nine lift stations to two.

Why it matters: the town is operating close to or above agreed treatment capacity and is paying for overage. Dan said the town’s current billed flow is “1.2” (units not specified in the presentation) and that the town was “over capacity about 98,000” (units not specified),…