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Prescott staff outline roadmap to centralize wastewater treatment after 2023 overflows
Summary
Public works and utilities staff described a multi-project plan to consolidate two treatment plants into a single airport facility, citing 2023 storm-driven overflows and an ADEQ consent order as drivers; council asked for Prop 401 analysis and SR-89 alternatives on Feb. 10.
City public-works officials on Jan. 27 reviewed the "roadmap to centralization" that would combine the Sundog and Airport wastewater facilities into a single airport-based plant, a multi-year program staff said is needed in part to address capacity failures highlighted by storms in early 2023.
Public Works Director Gwen Rohich said centralization was adopted by council resolution 42 84 in April 2015 and that the work has proceeded in phases funded in part by a WIFA loan approved by ordinance in 2018. Sundog was built in 1955 and currently produces class…
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