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McAlester council OKs Garver contract for wastewater facility plan to address ODEQ ammonia consent order
Summary
The council authorized the mayor to sign a contract with Garver Engineers for a facility plan and engineering report required under an ODEQ consent order addressing repeated ammonia exceedances at the West Wastewater Treatment Plant. City staff said documentation must be delivered to the Department of Environmental Quality by this fall.
The McAlester City Council on a unanimous vote authorized the mayor to sign a contract with Garver Engineers to prepare a facility plan and engineering report as part of the city's response to an Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) consent order over repeated ammonia excursions at the West Wastewater Treatment Plant.
City staff described the work as two linked tasks: a broad facility plan to examine capacities across the plant and a targeted engineering report to specify the initial upgrades needed to reduce ammonia releases. "We do have a consent order for ammonia at our West Wastewater Treatment Plant," a city staff member said during the meeting, adding the…
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