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Colfax council approves SCADA upgrade and accepts state remediation in lieu of $36,000 fine for wastewater plant
Summary
The council approved a roughly $163,000 upgrade to the wastewater plant SCADA system and agreed to a stipulated order with the State Water Board to remediate past violations instead of paying a $36,000 administrative fine.
Colfax City Council on Aug. 13 approved an expanded contract to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant's supervisory control and data acquisition system, and authorized a stipulated order with the State Water Resources Control Board to remediate prior violations instead of paying a $36,000 administrative fine.
Chief plant operator Matt Anderson told the council the plant currently has only “the alarms that we have for the plant are just effluent alarms,” and no pump, blower or other instrumentation alarms. Anderson said the proposed Control Point contract amendment will provide alarms for pumps, blowers and new instrumentation — including…
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