Environmental Remediation
The Lake City Sanitary Wastewater Plant was shut down in 1990 when Lake City connected to the Little Blue Valley Sewer District (LBVSD). The LBVSD was designed to treat sanitary wastewater so pretreatment of sanitary wastewater was not required. Industrial wastewater generated at Lake City is required to be pretreated before it can be discharged to LBVSD.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be responsible for the project that will consist of demolition of the associated structures which include aerated grit chamber, comminutor, primary and secondary sedimentation tanks, primary and secondary trickling filters, anaerobic digester drying beds and parshall flume. The wastewater in the structures will be discharged to the LBVSD prior to demolition. The majority of the construction materials (concrete, steel etc ;) will be recycled.