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Chautauqua Lake sewer district seeks state planning grant to confirm plant capacity
Summary
The South and Center Chautauqua Lake Sewer District requested a $50,000 state planning grant with a 20% local match to fund a capacity study for the district's wastewater treatment plant; the committee approved the resolution.
The Chautauqua County Public Facilities Committee on Sept. 15 approved a resolution authorizing a planning grant application and a local match for a capacity study at the South and Center Chautauqua Lake wastewater treatment plant.
The grant being sought is $50,000 from the state with a 20% local match, officials said. "Before we can do anything and apply to the state, we really need to have a capacity study done at the plant so when we apply we can prove to the state that we can handle that flow," Thomas Walsh, director of the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Sewer District, told the committee.
Walsh said the plant was permitted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation at 4,100,000 gallons per day when it went online in 1980 and later underwent mechanical upgrades, including a $2,000,000 conversion from surface aeration to diffused aeration that improved nutrient treatment by about 25%. He said planned hookups around the lake (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3) would add roughly 90 million gallons annually, or about 250,000 gallons per day, and the district is also considering homes near Strunk Road and Maple Grove School and a possible connection with the North Chautauqua Lake Sewer District.
Walsh told the committee the $50,000 figure came from an engineer's estimate and that the district will issue a request for qualifications to choose a consultant, hold interviews to satisfy the state Environmental Facilities Corporation requirements, and then proceed with the study. "So it's a ballpark figure," he said.
Committee members asked about timing; Walsh said the district is ready to advertise the RFQ and will move forward once the legislative board signs off on the committee's approval.
The committee voted "aye" to pass the resolution. The motion did not list a named mover or a roll-call tally in the public transcript.
The capacity study will be used to support any future permit or expansion application to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
