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Committee approves $50,000 engineering planning grant to study South and Center Chautauqua Lake wastewater capacity
Summary
Chautauqua County Audit & Control approved authorization for a $50,000 preliminary engineering study and local match to determine current capacity at the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant. Proponents said the study could show whether nearby flows now diverted or constrained could be routed to the plant.
Chautauqua County’s Audit & Control Committee voted to authorize a $50,000 engineering planning study and the appropriation of a local match for a capacity review of the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant. Tom Walsh, director of the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Sewer District, presented the request and answered committee questions.
Walsh told the committee the plant originally began operating in 1981 and is currently permitted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for 4.1 million gallons per day. He said the district’s recent upgrades, including a fine-air diffusion system installed to reduce ammonia, likely have increased the plant’s effective capacity by roughly 25 percent, but that an outside engineering firm must confirm current flow and nutrient-handling limits.
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