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Select Board hears detailed wastewater budget, plant upgrades and proposed fee study
Summary
At a March 10 budget workshop the Skowhegan Select Board reviewed an extensive water pollution control budget presentation. Plant manager Dony Zalewski recommended a fee study, automation investments and targeted capital reserves to reduce rising treatment costs and biosolids disposal fees.
Chair opened the board's budget workshop and the Select Board spent the bulk of the evening on the planning and water/wastewater budgets.
Dony Zalewski, who the board authorized earlier in the meeting to expend funds for plant repairs, delivered a detailed review of the Water Pollution Control Department's operating pressures and capital needs. He said the plant uses roughly 57% of the town's energy among municipal departments and described rising laboratory, chemical and electrical costs that drive the budget.
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