Riverside ready to go for Bio-Domes

Once Riverside gets the go-ahead from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) the town’s Bio-Dome project is ready to hit the ground running so that it can get the domes installed into the bottom of its two wastewater lagoons. The Bio-Domes will help to grow the bacteria that breaks down wastewater is fed into the lagoons and keep the process going during the winter months when the bacteria would normally become dormant under the ice. The relatively new technology would be the first of its kind in Wyoming which would make Riverside a sort of “guinea pig for the process,” according to Riverside Mayor Leroy Stephenson. The Bio-Domes are designed to offer a green and much less expensive alternative for smaller towns to help treat their effluence rather than having to build a multi-million dollar wastewater treatment plant.

The Riverside Town Council also heard from the new museum director of the Grand Encampment Museum, Christy Smith, who introduced herself to the council and informed them of the museum’s 50th anniversary this year and asked the council for any donations to help with the museum’s many projects and renovations. The council voted to donate $500 to the Grand Encampment Museum. The council also offered the new director suggestions and people in the community she could reach out to for help.

The council also approved park maintenance worker Helen Weiland’s request for Jerry Cunningham to be a part-time park worker to help her with various projects. Weiland related that she would need assistance replacing some of the buck and pole fence and that her and Cunningham should be able to complete it without needing to contract someone else.