LIVERMORE FALLS – Work in nearly completed on the current $2.3 million work project for the Livermore Falls Water District, Superintendent Doug Burdo told the trustees Wednesday morning.

In all, nearly five miles of new pipe have been laid, he said, on Route 17, Souther Road, Cargill Street and Route 133 in Livermore Falls as well as on Jewell, Lavoie and Pineau streets in Jay.

“We’re pleased with the work that’s been done,” Burdo and the board agreed, noting that it was important for people to realize the scope of the project. “People just see that their streets are torn up,” he stated.

When the final punch-list items are complete, the district will then turn its attention and dollars to meeting the mandated standards for disinfection byproducts, part of the new Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.

He said 3- to 6-inch layers of charcoal will need to be added to the beds in the slow sand filters, and some of the tests now being conducted could be costly.

The district is still pumping water from Parkhurst Pond in East Jay to its main supply, Moose Hill, which is still down about 25 inches, Burdo reported. “We’re depending on lots of rain this fall,” he said.

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