Winterport Water District awarded $710,000

WINTERPORT (May 2): U.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $14.2 million to Maine for water and environmental projects, including $710,000 for the Winterport Water District. More from the Village Soup News......

 

WHAT IS FLUSHABLE?
An Emerging Problem For the Winterport Water District: Consumer Wipes

Over the last few years, the Winterport Water District has experienced an increase in wastewater pump station malfunctions. Plant staff have regularly needed to unclog mounds of disposable wipes from sewage pumps, at considerable expense and environmental consequence. Attempts to address this problem with retrofits and operational changes have not been successful. In the month of December, a sewage pump was damaged with a projected repair expense of $2,000 due to it being clogged with the new type “disposable wipes”. Now the Winterport Water District is considering the construction of a $1.5 million screening facility to prevent these “disposable wipes” from reaching the sewage pumps and the treatment plant process itself. This will also help eliminate the potential of any sanitary sewer overflows into the Penobscot River (raw sewage discharge into receiving waters) due to the pump plugging problem. More.........



NOTICE TO ALL WINTERPORT WATER DISTRICT SEWER CUSTOMERS

We are writing to inform you of an important regulatory issue that has the potential of affecting all sewer customers of the Winterport Water District. As you know, the District operates a wastewater treatment plant on Sampson Street that was constructed in 1984 to process sewage flows from Winterport's village area.

The Winterport Water District recently received a letter from EPA advising that the treatment plant will no longer be allowed to operate as a primary facility. This will force the District to upgrade the present treatment plant to the secondary level. Such an upgrade will be very expensive and will potentially cost millions of dollars with no appreciable benefit to the Penobscot River's water quality. More......

 

 

 

 

 

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