Cardington Council to bid for wastewater plant improvements

By Eve­lyn Long -

Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil autho­rized Pogge­meyer Design Group to start the design and bid­ding process for improve­ments to the vil­lage waste­water treat­ment plant when they met Sep­tem­ber 4.

Speak­ing to coun­cil was Michael Ather­ine, Jr., prin­ci­pal owner of the com­pany who reviewed the company’s work in draw­ing up the sec­ond study on the plant. He pre­sented the find­ings to the coun­cil and the costs. He said the orig­i­nal study did not get to the crux of the prob­lem. A sec­ond study was made dur­ing the period where storms had caused an over­flow mon­i­tor­ing and “that’s what we wanted.”

“We used that infor­ma­tion to eval­u­ate the plant,” he said and he pre­sented a sum­mary of break­down of the costs and a sec­ond page showed the improve­ments to be made. He said they had come up with a plan to fit the orig­i­nal project bud­get which was $2.2 mil­lion sub­mit­ted to the EPA. There was also a 50 per cent prin­ci­pal for­give­ness on that loan. Refer­ring to the sec­ond plan, he said “we came up with this plan and it was a lit­tle under that $2 mil­lion. He noted there had been a con­fer­ence call with the Ohio EPA Finan­cial part and prin­ci­pal for­give­ness part, and they agreed with the study and accepted it.

Ather­ine said to keep the prin­ci­pal for­give­ness amount the project design and bid must be awarded by the end of the year. “We have set a sched­ule to meet that date and have the bid awarded by the end of 2012. He added that to do all the EPA wants them to do and keep the grant money, the require­ments must be met by Decem­ber 15.

He detailed the plant’s capac­ity now and the improve­ments that must be made both inside and out­side the plant. Over­flows must be cor­rected; block­ages are occurring.

“Your influ­ence sewer is not sized large enough. We’re putting a relief sewer along-side the exist­ing sewer to get the flow to the waste water plant. In addi­tion, the pumps in the waste­water plant are not large enough to pump the flow into the plant and we are going to replace them with larger pumps that can pump three mil­lion gal­lons a day into the plant. Another restric­tion is the grinder sys­tem, we are replac­ing that with a screen to take out the solids instead of grind­ing them. That will have the capac­ity of three mil­lion gal­lons a day.”

He also noted improve­ments to be made in the plant itself from the splin­ter boxes the ultra vio­let dis­in­fec­tion system.

He reit­er­ated that the plan “must be designed, sub­mit­ted to the Ohio EPA and they have to approve the plans. We have to go out for bids, receive them from con­trac­tors review them, come back to you, the coun­cil with rec­om­men­da­tions for the award and coun­cil has to award the project to a con­trac­tor and we have to have the con­tract signed by Decem­ber 15. We’re mak­ing this effort to keep your prin­ci­pal for­give­ness which is about $1.1 million.”

In other mat­ters, coun­cil approved the mayor’s appoint­ment of John Gersper to the posi­tion of vil­lage fis­cal offi­cer. They also approved the mayor’s appoint­ment of Gersper to the posi­tion of vil­lage manager.

Act­ing Police Chief Bob Hus­ton said the depart­ment had made 129 calls in August, 37 of which were traf­fic cita­tions; 14 assist other units; six for thefts; and 17 mis­cel­la­neous calls. There have been a total of 2,321 calls in 2012.

He also said the depart­ment has made a total of 353 warn­ings and 143 cita­tions this year.

Giv­ing his report was Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood who said the street, water/and sewer depart­ments had com­pleted the fol­low­ing activ­ity: found and fixed a water leak on the trans­mis­sion line from the Mar­ion County wells to the WTP; chipped brush, and Nick, the elec­tri­cian, had installed two new phase converter/ motor starters at the Third Street lift sta­tion. He said County Road 168 is now open but not fin­ished. Mos­quito spray­ing had taken place and the shoot­ing range had been mowed. The week of Sep­tem­ber 24 will be the last week for brush pick up for the year. He also noted the paint­ing of the water tower may be post­poned until next spring.

A twenty minute exec­u­tive ses­sion was held shortly after the meet­ing opened based ORC 121. 22 (G) (1) and 121.32 (G)(3.)

The next coun­cil meet­ing was sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 17 at 7 pm.

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