City may consider new site for Wastewater Treatment Plant

DAYTON–The City Council heard the update on the Wastewater Treatment Plant Project and investigation into new property; approved the city and school district lease agreement; the American Rock Products OTTA Sealroad project; the contract between the City and Washington State Department of Corrections work crew; recommendation to dissolution of standing committees; the council’s procedures and ethics handbooks; and Anderson Perry’s ADA sidewalk designs on 4th Street; and the OTTA Seal project at the meeting on May 14.

Public Works Director Ryan Paulson indicated the City will work with Anderson Perry on the feasibility study for the wastewater treatment plant, as well as look at a new location of the plant.

“We are going to be walking the footprint of our existing plant to look at it and find some spots where we can dig some test spots and see what it would look like if we were to cite the plant down here,” said Paulson. He stated that hydraulically they would need to go in a new direction and look for more land than was originally anticipated. He is working to set up meetings with other land owners.

“I appreciate how methodical you’ve been in getting us to a place,” Councilman Jim Su’euga said of Paulson. “We kind of had all kinds of options, we were able to narrow it down to an option that seemed viable at the time, but it still required testing and it’s because of those hydrological tests that it now makes that not feasible to do. So now we have to back up and find another approach.”

Resolution 1539 to dissolve the committees discussed in previous workshops, was unanimously approved. “Without our committees, we just have chairpersons,” said Mayor Rodger Trump. “So, if there is anything going on with anything like finances or parks and rec, we will send it to our chairperson and then set up a committee and figure it out in our regular work sessions and go from there,”

Resolution 1537 was approved by the City Council which awarded the contract for the OTTA Seal project to the company American Rock Products. This company came in as the lowest responsible bid for the project. They also approved the design and engineering services of Anderson Perry for this project and the project to update the sidewalks on 4th Street to make them ADA compliant.

Due to the upcoming street projects, the city will require inoperable vehicles and those with expired tabs to be moved off the street. Resident’s will be notified when work will begin in their area to allow them time to remove all vehicles and trailers off the street. Work is estimated to begin the week after the All Wheels event over Father’s Day weekend, June 14-16.

The city applied for a $120 thousand dollar grant through the Warren Community Action Fund and was awarded five thousand dollars to be used towards repairing the cemetery irrigation and for maintenance costs.