Bio-Domes were the main topic of discussion last Thursday night when Mayor Leroy Stephenson and the rest of the Riverside Town Council talked about improvements to the towns wastewater lagoon facility.
The Bio-Domes would be placed in the lagoons to create a bacterial film to help digest the solids in the lagoons and clean up the dissolved oxygen levels of the lagoons, this helps the other good bacterium work on through the winter months which, “are our most problematic,” according to Stephenson.
The first estimate for the Waste Water Compliance (WCS) project is to deliver and install the Bio-Dome lagoon system in the realm of $98,000. Stephenson met with the WCS engineer and salesman out at the lagoon Feb 9. to discuss the installation process. “We found several things where we can actually save some money on that cost so our estimate will be somewhat less. I’m guessing in the $90,000 to $92,000 range,” Stephenson said.
To complete the project Riverside will need to hire a crane and contract with Carbon Light and Power to install three-phase electric to the lagoons.
Riverside has a State Land and Investment Board (SLIB) grant for sewer improvements in the town for $330,000.
Stephenson is confident the grant will qualify to cover the cost of the Bio-Dome project. “I believe it will [be covered] for a couple of reasons ... WCS has already laid the groundwork at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the DEQ is interested in seeing how this is going to work,” Stephenson said.
“We will be the pilot program for the entire state of Wyoming”, Stephenson said.
The Council approved to have PMPC look into the permitting and to answer some of the council’s questions about the project.
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