The Town of Bremen is moving along with the proposed wastewater plant project.
The new plant would include a new maintenance building, control, chemical feed and blower building, and a sludge storage structure. The project also includes a new effluent outlet to the Yellow River, and the reconstruction of the town’s interceptor sewer through the wetland area and the manufactured home park.
The project is estimated to cost $16.3 million.
The town’s engineer, Ken Jones with Jones Petrie and Rafinski (JPR), updated the Bremen Town Council last week on the project. He said a meeting was held with USDA officials earlier this month to discuss funding.
“They’re encouraging us to use 100 percent of their funding for the project,” stated Jones. “If you might remember, when we were assembling this project, we were going to fund part of it through the State Revolving Loan Fund and part of it through USDA. They think the project might actually look a little bit better if it’s 100 percent funded with USDA. So, we’re working with Baker Tilly right now to do that analysis.”
Jones did note that USDA and State Revolving Loan fund officials are still willing to do their part with this project.
Jones continued, “In the original project, we had the interceptor being funded by SRF, or State Revolving Loan, because we could get up to a 35-year commitment from them. USDA is 100 percent at 40 years. We’re looking at that and having Baker Tilly run those numbers and we’ll come back to you and let you know.”
Jones said one issue with the interceptor is there is a property hooked into the component and work is being done to determine a plan for when the line is abandoned with this project.
Jones said an update will be given during the council’s meeting Monday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. ET at the Bremen Town Hall.
