Nearly finished
Nyssa wastewater plant project could be completed by Jan. 1, 2010
By Larry Meyer
Argus Observer
Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:53 AM PST
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| Myra Hartley, Nyssa wastewater supervisor, explains the contact chamber at the new wastewater treatment plant. In the contact chamber, the water is chlorinated before going out into fields. |
NYSSA — Some hoped it would be done sooner, but the new wastewater treatment facility at Nyssa should be ready to go by late December as crews wait on the arrival of a few pieces of equipment that must be installed.
The contract for the lagoon cells, or ponds, is about 99.99 percent complete, Lynn Findley, project inspector for Anderson Perry Engineers, told the Nyssa City Council Tuesday night.
There were just five or six things on the punch list that had to be taken care of, he said.
“All the piping is in,” Findley said, with Dec. 28 the target date for completion.
“We’re filling the lagoons with river water, to protect the liners,” Myra Hartley, wastewaater department supervisor, said Wednesday. The two treatment ponds were being filled first, and the third holding pond will be filled last.
Beside protection for the liners, the water will dilute the affluent as it comes in from the main lift station. There are still some pumps to be installed, Hartley said, and all the control system.
“They have not been delivered yet,” Hartley said.
The screen that keeps debris out of the system also needs to be installed. Hartley said.
“All we are waiting on is pumps and controls,” she said.
The pump station, which will transfer the water from the holding pond to the sprinklers in the fields is pretty much complete, and work is progressing on the maintenance building and office, which now has power, heat and running water, Hartley said, adding the flooring should be installed shortly.
Also being put up is more fencing around the perimeter, including the 8-foot high game fence, designed to keep animals out of the ponds. The textured liner was determined still too slick for animals to climb.
In her monthly report to the City Council, City Manager Roberta Donovan said there is a lot of interest in farming the fields at the new waste water treatment plant.
“I have told them that we will be preparing a request for proposals and taking bids for planting and taking care of the fields,” she said. Donovan has been making a list of those expressing interest and once city officials decide how to proceed, she will let the people on the list know. The cost of the project, more than $8 million, is paid for by a combination grants from the USDA Rural Development program, Oregon State Revolving Fund through the Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon Department of Economic and Community Development.
gee thanks wrote on Nov 13, 2009 8:55 PM:
There is so much going on that you never enjoy, much less even see when you only focus on where you think you want to be and what was. Life is only enjoyed when you become part of it, wherever it happens to be. Old friends are still friends but you must keep making friends. When you do all the squares you disdain won't bother you so much and they might have more to help you than you will ever understand pitching a fit over your self-made miserable world.
Besides, 32 years ago I found that Nyssa was the PERFECT place for a misfit to grow up. I did it and you can too : ) "