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City administrator outlines progress, EPA talks and financial stakes in Maumee sewer plan
Summary
City Administrator Patrick Birch updated Council on ongoing consent-order planning with the EPA, said the draft target for reducing inflow and infiltration may be 50%, and outlined phased infrastructure and home-repair approaches to avoid constructing large storage tanks.
City Administrator Patrick Birch told Maumee City Council on Dec. 16 that the city is negotiating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on a plan to address sanitary sewer overflows and inflow and infiltration (I&I).
Birch said that past plans that assumed smaller I&I reductions would have required building large storage tanks; city staff and consultants proposed a higher I&I reduction to limit or avoid tanks. Birch said staff previously considered a 25% reduction plan that included large tanks and that the city’s preferred approach would seek a much larger reduction in I&I to avoid that infrastructure. He told the council the EPA has signaled it will likely require a 50% reduction target as the working figure for the city’s plan.
“If we achieve a 50% reduction, that will require a multiyear program of home- and neighborhood-level repairs, sewer separation work…
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