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Resident presses city on phosphorus levels, truck trips and wetland limits at Bartlett Bay hearing
Summary
At the hearing a nearby resident, Elizabeth Lindy, asked for influent and effluent phosphorus measurements, truck‑trip counts and whether wetland delineation changed building footprints; staff provided permit and monitoring figures and said sludge‑haul trips should fall.
Resident Elizabeth Lindy, whose property adjoins the Bartlett Bay site, asked for specific phosphorus measurements and operational details and said those datapoints were not easy to find online. "How much phosphorus is removed currently? How what's your influent and your exflent?" she asked.
Hoyle Tanner and city staff provided specifics in response. An engineer said the permit limit is 1.8 milligrams per liter and that the plant was "usually, they're down around 0.1 or 0.08 milligrams per liter." Staff also said the plant currently removes roughly 99% of incoming pathogens and that last year average effluent phosphorus measurements were near 0.05 mg/L. Regarding truck traffic, staff said the plant currently moves approximately four truck loads per day for sludge hauling and that the new storage tanks should reduce trips to about two per day.
Lindy also questioned whether wetland delineation on the north end had altered building envelopes. Staff said those adjustments are documented in the Development Review Board (DRB) permit materials and offered to send the resident direct links to permit plans and additional data by email.
