COUNCILWOMAN TO SEEK REDUCED T.O. TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Saying that an independent audit's conclusions warrant it, Councilwoman Elois Zeanah will ask today for a new scaled-down plan for the Hill Canyon Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrade. But other City Council members say that the request may be premature and that the council should wait until the Dec. 17 meeting - when the city staff is expected to come back with a report incorporating the Price Waterhouse LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol audit's findings - to make any decisions on the proposed $75 million upgrade plan. Specifically, Zeanah is requesting a new plan that cuts about $30 million by eliminating all improvements that are not health- and safety-related or not required by state or federal law. She also wants to see a 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. odor-removal facility eliminated from the plan. She also said that the council, not staff, should decide how the costs of capital improvements are distributed. ``The reason that a decision must be made by this council is that the following week, on the 17th, the staff plans to bring back a recommendation for an increase in residential rates,'' she said. ``I wanted to pre-empt pre·empt or pre-empt v. pre·empt·ed, pre·empt·ing, pre·empts v.tr. 1. To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. a. that and not wait until the 17th to give everyone sufficient time to look at the issues before us, and one of the issues is getting the costs down.'' According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mayor Judy Lazar, however, city staff has been working with the Price Waterhouse audit, which was released in October and recommended engineering studies to determine whether parts of the ambitious, 15-year improvement project could be scaled down or eliminated. The staff should be allowed to present its findings so that the council can make an informed decision, she said. ``At that point in time the council will have a full, five-member discussion as to what we wish to do and how we wish to do it, or if we want to do it,'' Lazar said. ``So this is in my opinion premature - I would much prefer to wait and see what the full council discussion yields.'' Along with former Councilwoman Jaime Zukowski, Zeanah has adamantly ad·a·mant adj. Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible. n. 1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness. 2. An extremely hard substance. opposed the upgrade project, saying it goes far beyond what the city needs. She and Zukowski refused to approve a $7 per month hike in the residential service charge to help fund the project. The issue needs four votes to pass. The city was recently warned by the State Water Resources Control Board to submit by year's end a timetable for the plant improvements and documents outlining how the project will be funded or risk losing millions of dollars in federal aid. According to Price Waterhouse, the city could shave shave (shav) 1. to cut at or parallel to the surface of the skin. 2. to remove the beard or other body hair by such a process. 3. to cut thin slices from or to cut into thin slices. about $28.5 million from the cost of the project by using cheaper alternatives in some parts of the project or reducing the scale of other parts. Zeanah wants to eliminate an ultraviolet disinfection Ultraviolet disinfection is a form of wastewater treatment. It is commonly used in garden pond filtration systems to kill algae. Large scale urban UV wastewater treatment is performed in cities such as Edmonton, Alberta. system, a nitrification/denitrification system and the dewatering facility to remove odors Odors anosmia Medicine. the absence of the sense of smell; olfactory anesthesia. Also called anosphrasia. — anosmic, adj. halitosis bad breath; an unpleasant odor emanating from the mouth. for golf course use at the proposed Hill Canyon complex. Lazar said the council should wait to see how the Public Works department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
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