By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
If Mona does determine to add a
sewer system to the city infrastructure, they should follow
a checklist.
Travis Higby and Jared Ingram,
representing Forsgren Associates / Inc., said there were
some items that should be completed at the end of the
getting started checklist they presented the
city.
The checklist came from the Utah
Department of Water Quality.
Those involved determining where
the city was and where the council wanted to be when the
work was complete, hold a general meeting with DWQ
(Department of Water Quality) representatives and submit
information necessary to be ranked on the project priority
list.
"If you have a water quality
project, problem or need, and wonder if the WQPAP (Utah
Water Quality Project Assistance Program) can help, the
first step is to call," said Higby.
An informal or formal meeting can
be scheduled.
The meeting can range from an
informal discussion like one that would occur in a work
session to a presentation at city council or at a district
board meeting.
The meeting provides a good
opportunity for council members to ask questions and discuss
what needs to be accomplished.
In addition, the WQPOP group can
even hold a general informational meeting.
At that meeting or at subsequent
ones, the city council and interested residents may begin to
identify the scope of the planning effort and identify work
that needs to be done and work that has been
done.
"I would be happy to help you
contact them," Higby said.
Gordon Anderson, council member,
has been asked to oversee the preliminary investigative work
that needs to be done. He said he had already had some
contact with the department and would talk to them about a
meeting with the council.
Bryce Lynn, mayor, said that Cory
Squire, council member, has expertise the city can also take
advantage of.
In the report from the Utah
Department of Water Quality which Higby presented to the
city, it suggests hiring an engineering firm to assist the
community with the technical expertise and managerial
capability needed to plan, design and built the proposed
project.
"The selection of an engineer can
be the most important phase of a project. The quality of the
finished product, whether an analysis of a sewer system, a
design of a watstewater treatment plant, or the construction
of a new interceptor sewer, can greatly depend on the
engineering firm selected for the job."
As the project is planned, the
city should hire and engineering firm, determine design
flows, apply for a new or revised NPDES permit (the National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, a permit program
which requires all point sources discharging pollutant into
waters of the United States to obtain a permit), evaluate
alternative and select one, prepare a preliminary estimate
of the cost and the cost per user, identify and contact
potential sources of funding, involve the public, prepare
and Environmental Assessment to be issued by DWQ for public
review and issue a FNSI and subsequent approval of the
planning effort by the Utah DWQ.
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