Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
St. Joseph Energy Center backwash permit to route to Nesbittani Ditch tabled for more data
Summary
DLZ engineer Samantha Smirka Rutschland sought a permit to reroute SJEC water-treatment backwash to the Nesbittani Ditch; the board tabled the request pending a permanent-discharge application, clarification of pump rate and frequency, and modeling of downstream impacts.
DLZ engineer Samantha Smirka Rutschland asked the St. Joseph County Drainage Board to approve a permit to reroute the Saint Joseph Energy Center's water-treatment backwash from the city of South Bend's sanitary system to the Nesbittani Ditch.
Rutschland said the plant's backwash currently averages roughly 1.2'to 1.5 million gallons per month as a monthly average and is discharged intermittently (about every other week). She told the board the treated backwash would pass through two existing retention basins, be moved by a lift station and force main to a gravity pipe, and enter the ditch; she said expected residual chlorine would be "less than 0.02 milligram liters per day." She…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
