North Lauderdale outlines two-site plan, $7 million engineering grant to rebuild water plant for new PFAS limits

City of North Lauderdale officials on Sept. 9 told the City Commission that they have secured a $7,000,000 state revolving loan/grant to pay engineering costs for a new water treatment plant and must choose between two construction-site plans by October.

The decision matters because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and related guidance have driven federal and state PFAS drinking-water limits down sharply, city staff said. City Manager Neil Wilson told the commission, "At one point, the requirement was that PFAS needed to be like 70 parts per billion, and they've lowered that all the way down to 3, and almost no one meets that 3 number." Wilson said the full replacement is expected to cost on the order of $80 million for North Lauderdale.

City engineers presented two site layout options that place treatment facilities, a new deep injection well for concentrate disposal, monitoring wells and large construction staging areas on or adjacent to the City Hall/public works site. Assistant Public Works…