CITY TO VOTE ON FUNDS TO ADD TO PLANT.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer The City Council on Tuesday will consider spending an additional $1 million to design the third and final stage of the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant Wastewater treatment plant also called wastewater treatment works
The city already has allocated $1.5 million this year toward the $2.4 million bill for CH2M Hill CH2M HILL is a global provider of engineering, construction, and operations services for corporations, nonprofits, and federal, state, and local governments with regional offices worldwide. California Inc. Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. has so far spent $40 million to improve the 42-year-old plant and anticipates spending an additional $30 million for phase three. ``We are following the regulatory requirements out there being imposed on all agencies,'' said Dean Morales, city engineering division manager. ``We have to provide for the master plan growth of the city.'' The plant has upgraded its dewatering Dewatering (dē′wöd·ər·iŋ) is the removal of water from solid material or soil by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes. facility, and by the time phase two is completed in June, its daily capacity to treat raw sewage will increase from 10.8 million to 12 million gallons, Morales said. The third phase calls for expanding the capacity to 14 million gallons a day - to handle the population when the city hits buildout The construction and implementation of a system. For example, "network buildout" implies constructing the network and going online. - and adding new aeration aeration /aer·a·tion/ (ar-a´shun) 1. the exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen by the blood in the lungs. 2. the charging of a liquid with air or gas. aer·a·tion n. basins and blower system. Phase one began in 1997. Morales said phase three is expected to begin construction in 2003 and be completed in 2005. ``The third phase is a major and final phase,'' he said. ``Minor phases will come afterward. ``The treatment plant will continue to be improved as time goes by,'' he said. ``There will always be work out there.'' The council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 2200 Thousand Oaks Blvd. |
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