HUMBOLDT — Humboldt council members voted Monday evening to spend $100,000 to make improvements to the wastewater treatment plant.
The decision came after a lengthy and technical discussion of the system’s shortcomings by an engineer from BG Consultants, Emporia, which was hired a year ago to make an assessment of wastewater collection and treatment.
Water infiltrating and burdening the system also is a concern. About 50 million gallons of rainwater a year flow into sanitary sewer mains, and then has to be treated the same as wastewater,…
Wastewater system upgrades approved
