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Show NOTK'K OK I'L BI.ICIIKARING PLKASANTGItOVKClTY A public hearing will be held on December 111, 1975 at ( p.m. MST. at the Pleasant Grove City Municipal Building at 35 S. Main in Pleasant Grove, Utah, to discuss a proposed new sewage treatment system for North t tah County. The proposed system will serve the cities of Alpine, American Fork, l.ehi, and Pleasant Grove and several unincorporated areas of Utah County. The hearing w ill include a discussion of the environmental effects of the proposed system. This new system is necessitated by new State of Utah and U.S. Knvironmental Protection Agency regulations, which will require progressively better sewage treatment over the next few years, and by the rapid growth of the communities which have exceeded the capacity of the existing sewage treatment plants. An Interlocal Association was lormed by the cities ol Pleasant Grove. Lehi, American Fork, and Alpine, called Ihe Timpanogos Planning Plan-ning Association to jointly study their sewage .treatment . needs. A study performed by an engineering consultant indicated in-dicated a substantial cost savings ' lor a single regionalized sewage treatment system to serve all of the cities. The proposed system was selected from nineteen (19) alternatives as the most economically , and environmentally en-vironmentally sound means of meeting Ihe future sewage treatment needs of the communities. com-munities. The new facilities will consist of a lagoon system near the Jordan River about l'v miles southwest of Lehi, a storage , reservoir in the foothills of the Lake Mountains three miles west of the Jordan River, and a land disposal area (farm) about one mile west of Saratoga Springs. The lagoon system, which w ill be partially aerated to eliminate odors and promote better treatment, will provide secondary treatment for the sewage. Treated wastewater form the lagoons will be disinfected and pumped to the storage reservoir. The reservoir will retain all of the treated w...:tewater during the winter. During the growing season, water from the reservoir, will be applied by normal surface irrigation techniques on the land disposal area, which will serve as the final phase of treatment. Nitrogen, phosphorous, and other residual pollutants w ill be removed by the soil and the cover crops as the water percolates through the soil. The cover crops, which will consist of crops commonly grown in the area, will be harvested and sold to help reduce treatment costs. The proposed system is discussed in detail in the North Utah County Wastewater Facilities Planning Study, which will be available for public use as the American Fork, Alpine. Pleasant Grove and Lehi City buildings on and after December 1, 1975. Similar hearings are scheduled at Lehi, and American Fork on Dec. 16, 1975 and at Alpine on Dec. 18, 1975. Timpanogos Planning Assn. |