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Show City Returns Engineers Back To Drawing Eoards for a ci!y th:? size of Milford that they can afford. Costs estimated for the sewer sew-er system, were $103 thousand to repair the eld system (on a hit and miss basis ard .?220 thousand for the Lagoon and pumping station at the tracks for a total of $328 thousand. Much of the problems with bo'h the sewer and water planning is the fact that no maps or knowledge are available avail-able on the piesent system, to know what is underground or how long its b?en there. This makes it difficult to know what should be replaced. Kaiserman said that Mil-ford"s Mil-ford"s wells were good but were pumping lots of sand. The tanks are another situation situa-tion he said The low one' is in such bad condition that they decided .not to clean it this year because it wasn't safe. The high tank is over 50 years old but the best of the lot, and the railroad tank is leaking. All of them are way past due for replacement, and Kaiserman said all are a testimonial testi-monial to the long life of steel tanks. He recommended a half million gallon tank be built and if possible the elevated tank be kept in the system. Also dril.li.ng another well and improving one of the present wells to eliminate sand in the system, which is harmful to everything. He also recommended recom-mended metering of the system. sys-tem. The only lines replaced were major trunk lines and a few Continued on Page Four Milford City Fathers sent Call Engineering in the name of Jim Kaiserman and Phil Palmer back to the drawing boards Morday night when they received a preliminary "Preliminary Report" at a special meeting in the council chambers Monday night. Plans were to hear the report re-port from the engineering firm and then to get on with the budget. But the only budget work was from 7 to 7:30 p.m. before Kaiserman and Palmer showed up. The meeting was called for 7 p.m. I Councilmen and Mayor Mayer May-er listened attentively to the report most of the evening, commenting only from time to time until Editor Wilson and Councilman Swain pointed out that the perimeter line and other feeder lines that were needed and specified in thej original guidelines given the firm had been totally ignored. Wilson stated that if the lines in the older part of town were as bad as previously indicated, in-dicated, the 90 pounds of pressure per square inch (psi) indicated in the report would blow every line in town. The Councilmen and Mayer concurred with Wilson and told Kaiserman that either all old lines would necessarily need to be replaced or the pressure reduced. Since some of these lines are known to be over 50 years old, replacing replac-ing seemed the most expedient means. The report said that the sewage treatment facility had been monitored for 26 hours and that flow equated that use of water was about normal nor-mal as far as the sewage was concerned, though water being pumped indicated that there was a tremendous leak or leaks in the system. Kaiserman said that the best method of treatment, and the cheapest would be sealed evaporative evap-orative lagoo.ns, which would require five ponds with approximate ap-proximate depth of 3 ft. They would not overflow into the Beaver river as at present. Tests indicated, he said that the present system, of treatment treat-ment was far from adequate. With the use of enzymes to break up the solids, bacteria action is not taking place and the effectiveness of the plant is only about 11 effective with the state requirement at 95. The new system will not reach the 95 objective without with-out a stream to dump into and dilute, but is the best means |