Show City Conc Cancels ls Plans Mans for Construction Of Sewage T Here Mayor Normal Norman Boyd lloyd said this week k alter talking with City Engineer Dave Holder regarding the proposed sewage treatment plant f for r Moab City a decision h had d been reached to tentatively postpone construction of the plant plan t. t Last tast week at a meeting with witha a working board from the Utah Water Pollution Control Board and the Utah State Board of Health the mayor was Informed that beCo before the proposed plans could be approved a 4 tricking Ung filter would have to be ed cd This according to Holder would increase t the h e building costs of the plant above the original design costs am and would cost more money than had been appropriated for the plant even evon with the government grant Before Defore Moab City can become eligible for the government government govern govern- ment merit grant for the sewage treatment plant the State Water Wat Wat- er cr Pollution Control BO Boards Board's rd's ap must be te obtained und r pr present sent laws laW Mayor Boyd said he disapproved ed going along with the boards board's recommendations for the tho trickling tuck trick ling hog filter Inclusion In the plan plans for Cor two reasons First the e ex cost and second wIth will this type of plant an odor will wil eventually develop The City of Grand Junction Installed a trickling filter fitter sewage sewage sew sew- age treatment plant approximately two years ago Holder said and and- andare are now Involved Inlaw In Inlaw inlaw law suits In excess of a million dollars filed by property owners owners own own- ers era protesting the offensive odor from the plant Mayor Boyd said before beCore the city would build a a sewage treatment treatment treat treat- treat ment mont plant with such undesirable undesirable undesirable able qualifications they would drop attempts to acquire the government grant and eventually pay for tor their own plant at th their lr own expense expanse For the present time he said with the recent exodus of construction construction con con- workers who had for formerly merly resided In Moab the presen present pres- pres pres en eat ent t sewage plant Is not overworked overworked over over- worked and they feel leel It will suffice until satisfactory ar arrangements arrangements r- r can be made for the new plant Another meeting with the state board representatives is planned next week |