CITY CONSIDERS CLOSING PLANT; SMALL TREATMENT FACILITY MAY DRAIN RESOURCES.Byline: Cecilia Chan Daily News Staff Writer The City Council may take steps Tuesday toward the eventual closing of the Olsen Road Water Reclamation Reclamation A claim for the right to return or the right to demand the return of a security that has been previously accepted as a result of bad delivery or other irregularities in the delivery and settlement process. Plant, which treats up to 200,000 gallons of raw sewage a day for 600 homes nearby. With $1.7 million needed to refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur and upgrade the 40-year-old facility at Olsen Road and the 23 Freeway, it would be cheaper to divert the sewage to the much larger Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant Wastewater treatment plant also called wastewater treatment works
``It's a very expensive little plant to operate,'' said Don Nelson, city public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. director. ``We have to have many of the same features as the larger plant such as staffing the plant seven days a week. ``If the council gives us direction to proceed, we are talking two years, 2-1/2 years for the flow to be transferred.'' The City Council will decide Tuesday whether to approve the final initial study and the negative declaration on the project's environmental effects. Nelson said the Hill Canyon facility, which is undergoing improvements, can easily accommodate the flow from the Olsen Road facility. The larger facility treats daily up to 10 million gallons of wastewater, which is equivalent to two football fields covered 16 feet deep with water. It would cost $1.7 million to rehabilitate re·ha·bil·i·tate v. 1. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education. 2. To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity. and upgrade the Olsen Road plant and $1.9 million to abandon it. To abandon the plant, the city would need to build one or two pump stations and install a pipeline to divert the flow. ``The real cost savings come from reducing operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales over a 20-year period,'' Nelson said. It would cost $375,600 a year to operate and maintain the facility if it stayed open, compared with $116,700 a year to maintain and operate the pump stations and pipeline. The project would take eight months to build. Residents won't see an increase in fees if the plant is abandoned. However, Mayor Linda Parks For the DC Comics character, see . Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a Korean American actress who is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series . wondered whether the cost-saving plan of closing the plant would mean cheaper rates for residents. ``I know that the citizens' sewer rates were increased in part to improve this sewer plant and now that they've found a more economical way to handle the sewage is to transfer it to (Hill Canyon), I would like to see if it means less money, if it'll reduce sewer fees in concert with that.'' |
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