The Huron City Commission approved an amendment to an engineering study done on the city’s waste water system. Waste Water Superintendent Vince Juelfs says Huron’s current system is nearing capacity….
SBR’s are Sequencing Batch Reactors and are a part of the treatment process. The City still uses sewer lagoons for water treatment, but those will not reduce phosphorus and nitrogen levels. The study has a cost of 100-thousand, 500-dollars. 100-thousand dollars of which had already been budgeted. Commissioner Bryan Smith wanted to know if action was planned because of the study…
City Engineer Mike Wever says the city could change it’s schedule of water infrastructure improvements, which are tentatively set to wrap up in 2020. Commissioner Doug Kludt says city leaders will have to do some thinking with future spending….
The estimated cost of the project could go as high as 20-million dollars.