LIVERMORE FALLS — After sewer trustees voted last week to use $60,000 toward a treatment plant repair, Jay selectmen are expected to consider the issue at their meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 14, at the Jay Town Office.
Greg Given, superintendent of the Livermore Falls Sewer Department and chief operator of the town's wastewater treatment plant, tries to get material to go through the in-line channel grinder. The grinder needs to be replaced at a cost of between $160,000 and $200,000.
Greg Given, chief operator of the Livermore Falls wastewater treatment plant, used a rake to remove material left because of a broken grinder. The grinder needs to be replaced at a cost of between $160,000 and $200,000.
The left side of an in-line channel grinder does not spin while the right side does spin but is clogged and not always removing the solids that come through sewage flow from the system at the Livermore Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant. The equipment needs to be replaced.
Livermore Falls owns the plant, and Jay and Livermore Falls share the cost of maintaining and operating it. Both towns will need to figure out where the remaining $100,000 to $140,000 will come from to replace an in-line grinder that removes solids such as rocks and rags.
Livermore Falls is looking at getting a bar rack or screen to remove solids to 1/4 inch so they don't go through the system. Jay and Livermore Falls would split the cost 54/46 percent, respectively, based on sewage treated at the plant.
The cost is estimated between $160,000 to $200,000, including a building over it.
The grinder was installed in 1998 when the plant was upgraded, Sewer Department Superintendent Greg Given said. It was rebuilt in 2009.
“I don't know how we're going to get the money. All I know is we've got to get it done,” he said of the repair.
Given said he is willing to give a tour to anyone who wants to see the plant.
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