Preferred wastewater treatment plan now utilizes existing lagoons

  • After conducting another study recently, officials with the AE2S engineering firm are now recommending that the City of Hot Springs continue to use its existing reservoirs east of town as part of the wastewater treatment facility improvement plan. However, the entire five-mile gravity piping system will need replaced and the lagoons will need to be upgraded in order to provide aerated treatment of the effluent. File photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
    After conducting another study recently, officials with the AE2S engineering firm are now recommending that the City of Hot Springs continue to use its existing reservoirs east of town as part of the wastewater treatment facility improvement plan. However, the entire five-mile gravity piping system will need replaced and the lagoons will need to be upgraded in order to provide aerated treatment of the effluent. File photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
    Overall cost is slightly higher but process is simpler, betterHOTSPRINGS–Thereis a new preferred alternative for the City of Hot Springs’ planned improvements at the wastewater treatment facility, which should come as good news to those who spoke against the original plan to put treated effluent directly into Fall River.Despite having a slightly higher overall cost, r...

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