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Akron staff outline CSO work and say regulators are open to alternatives to costly EHRT plant
Summary
City wastewater staff described real-time control, CMOM cycles and tunnel projects that have reduced overflows and said regulators (Ohio and US EPA) are engaged as the city explores meeting consent-decree obligations without building a projected $265 million enhanced treatment plant.
City wastewater and environmental services staff briefed the planning committee on combined sewer overflow (CSO) projects and the status of consent-decree work, emphasizing that a series of operational improvements and storage projects have substantially reduced modeled overflows.
Jenny Hannah summarized multiple CSO efforts, including a real-time control system that monitors and manages wet-weather storage and a post-construction water-quality monitoring program required under the consent decree. She…
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