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Planning board approves Thermo Fisher wastewater treatment upgrade; new enclosed system will replace lagoons
Summary
The planning board approved site plan items for Thermo Fisher to build a new, enclosed wastewater treatment plant that replaces existing lagoons, tightens effluent treatment to meet DEC limits and includes phased biological reactors and monitoring points.
Tim Walk (spelled in meeting materials as W A L C K), representing Thermo Fisher, presented a two‑phase plan for a new, compact wastewater treatment system sited adjacent to the current lagoons and near the Fresenius Kabi facility.
Walk said the new plant is prompted by stricter New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) effluent limits and by projections of increased future flows. “The new system…will be constructed in two phases,” Walk said, describing two sequencing‑batch reactors (SBRs) in phase one and a third identical tank to be added later if flows require it.
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