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Public Works committee hears $78 million upgrade and multiple water, sewer projects; accepts monthly reports
Summary
Engineering manager Sean Singer briefed the Public Works Advisory Committee on Aug. 20 on a slate of water and wastewater projects — including a roughly $78 million solids-handling/headworks upgrade, chemical-feed conversions, and multiple lift-station and collection-system improvements — and the committee voted to accept June reports.
Sean Singer, engineering manager for O'Fallon's water and sewer division, told the Public Works Advisory Committee on Aug. 20 that the city is advancing a package of capital projects intended to modernize treatment and improve system reliability.
"So exciting things going on out in the water sewer world right now with a lot of projects going on, moving pieces," Singer said as he opened a slide presentation that laid out work at the treatment plant, distribution system and collection system.
Singer described the largest project as a solids-handling and headworks improvement program—"about a $78,000,000 project"—that includes a new Influent Screening (Headworks) Building with a quarter-inch bar screen followed by a 3-millimeter fine screen, new washer/compactor equipment for solids disposal, and rerouted force mains. He said some pieces of that project are approaching startup and that contractors have completed recent pressure testing on force mains and are preparing for final concrete work.
The presentation also…
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