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Newton Council approves WWTP repairs: $311,628 construction award for lime-piping replacement, catwalk and sludge budget updates
Summary
Council approved Turner-Murphy Construction for lime-piping replacement and adopted related capital and budget amendments totaling $404,428 for the lime project; it also approved a $75,000 budget amendment for increased sludge hauling costs and a contract to Gilbert Engineering for a new filter-building walkway.
Newton City Council on March 16 approved a set of repairs and safety upgrades at the Clark Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant aimed at preventing permit violations and reducing staff safety risks.
Public Works and Utilities Director Dusty Wentz told the council that decades of lime passing through underground piping had "tuberculated" lines, reducing a two-inch pipe to about one inch and a six-inch pipe to about three inches, which created system flow problems in 2020. Staff has been operating the plant using fire hoses as a temporary bypass; Wentz said the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality treats the fire-hose workaround as "a temporary solution," and failure to…
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