HomeMy WebLinkAbout07071972-cc_CCv0002.pdf MINUTES of an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council, City of Re,
held in the Council Chambers, Safety Hall, 212 Brookside Avenue
July 7, 1972 at 1: 00 P.M.
PRESENT Jack B. Cummings, Mayor
Charles G. DeMirjyn, Councilman
Chresten M. Knudsen, Councilman
Ellsworth E. Miller, Councilman
Sam S . Sewall, Councilman
John H. Wagner, Assistant to the City Manager
Peggy A. Moseley, City Clerk
ABSENT None
This adjourned regular meeting of the City Council was called fi
purpose of receiving a report from Mr. Gail Lynch of John Carol
Engineers, whose firm is in the process of completing the plans
specifications for the reconstruction of the sewer treatment ply
Mr. Lynch reports that recently- completed percolation tests caui
cern that the proposed percolation site of 40 acres may not be ,
quate to percolate all the effluent 100% of the time. Mr. Lyncl
plained possible problems in detail and Council discussed the m,
at length.
The following alternative measures are recommended by John Caro'.
Engineers in order to insure that discharge requirements can be
at all times .
1. Do not provide a percolation area for disposal, and design
complete river discharge. Provide additional tertiary trea�
when, and as, required.
2. Construct the proposed percolation area, and purchase addit.-
land on the bluff for additional percolation area. Land pu.,
would not be eligible for grant participation.
3. Construct the proposed percolation area, and provide pressu:
filtration, at this time, to insure that a river discharge (
met. Purchase and/or lease additional land, as funds become
available, for a complete land disposal policy.
Following further elaboration by Mr. Lynch and Council discussi(
Council concurred in the decision to authorize the procedure re(
ded in Alternate 2, with the request that Alternate 3 be bid in
to determine the cost of Alternate 3 . This motion of Councilmai
Knudsen# seconded by Councilman Miller, was unanimously adopted,
There being no further discussion, the Council adjourned on mot:
Next regular meeting, July 18, 1972.
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