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Show Sewer district reveals $8 million expansion By GARY R. BLODGETT WEST BOUNTIFUL Plans for expansion of the South Davis Sewer Improvement District treatment treat-ment plant were presented to the Bountiful City Council. Former Mayor Elmer W. Barlow, Bar-low, Bountiful's representative to the sewer district's board of directors, direc-tors, said it will take about $8 million mil-lion to renovate and expand the existing ex-isting facility to meet state and federal fed-eral environmental standards for the next 20 to 30 years. "The existing plant is barely meeting EPA standards some of the time. At other times, the treatment treat-ment plant is not quite coming up to minimum standards and would not be able to continue treatment if it wasn't that the treated waste is pumped into' Great Salt Lake which has even a higher percentage of improperly treated waste than what goes through the plant," said Mr. Barlow. He noted that financing will be through a state revolving fund, as needed, at a percentage rate between be-tween 3.75 and 6.0 percent interest. in-terest. "This will necessitate increasing the sewer treatment rate in the district dis-trict from $1.75 per month charged now to about $3 per month, beginning begin-ning July 1," said Mr. Barlow. But he added that Bountiful residents resi-dents probably will pay slightly less than others in the district because be-cause Bountiful owns its own collection col-lection lines. Financing from the state revolving revolv-ing fund will be over about 10 years. The plant will be vastly expanded ex-panded and improved to meet present pre-sent and future EPA standards and increasing capacity for at least the next 20 years. Mr. Barlow said there will be some addition of new collection lines, as well as repair and replacement replace-ment of some existing lines, included in-cluded in the expansion project. The plant, which serves Farmington, Farm-ington, Woods Cross, West Boun tiful, North Salt Lake, Centerville and the unincorporated area of south Davis County as well as Bountiful, will be expanded over the next three to four years. Mr. Barlow said that South Davis Sewer Improvement District Dis-trict is among the lowest cost sewer treatment districts in the state for collection and treatment of solid waste. Even with the proposed increase in-crease it will continue to be one of the least expensive in the state. Mayor Dean S. Stahle said he is pleased with past performances of the treatment plant but noted that "waste disposal, both garbage and sewer, will cost considerably more in the future and Bountiful residents resi-dents are fortunate to have such a low rate to pay." Bonds for financing the district's first sewer treatment plant and several sev-eral miles of collector lines were sold in 1947. Collection lines were installed and the plant built over the next two years. |