\r\n\r\n \r\nThe City of Valdosta is making significant headway on two capital \r\nimprovement projects that, once complete, will eliminate some\r\nsources of stormwater I&I; but more importantly, they will resolve\r\nthe overwhelming majority of the sanitary sewer overflows in\r\nflood-prone areas of the city during heavy rain events—making\r\nthese projects the city’s highest priority.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\n\r\n$36 million Force Main Project<\/a>, which is currently six months\r\nahead of schedule from the required EPD completion date of July\r\n2016, includes the construction of a 6.2-mile force main, four new\r\nlift stations, a new headworks structure for the future\r\nWithlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), and a 6-million\r\ngallon equalization basin to handle stormwater inflow and\r\ninfiltration (I&I) into that facility.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nIn coordination with the Force Main Project, the city also has a $23\r\nmillion WWTP Design Build Project underway for the construction of\r\nthe new treatment plant at the Wetherington Lane site. The contract\r\nfor this project, which is required by EPD to be completed by\r\nAugust 2017, is currently a year and five months ahead of schedule.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe pipeline work for the portion of the force main that runs near\r\nthe River Park RV Park has been completed. Piping just east of the\r\npark near the Commons Apartments is nearly completed, and work on\r\nthe force main piping along Georgia State Route 94 is over 25\r\npercent completed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nAt the headworks site (site of the new plant) on Wetherington Lane,\r\nGarney Construction has poured the base slab and the first level \r\nwalls of the Jet Mix structure, which includes a baffle wall\r\namounting to over 400 cubic yards of concrete. Installation of the\r\nformwork and rebar for the second level walls has also begun. The\r\n36” raw wastewater (RWW) line from the Jet Mix to the\r\nequalization basin has been installed and encased with concrete.\r\nThe water line along Wetherington Lane is approximately 85 percent\r\ncomplete.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nConstruction of the new pump stations on Gornto Road and Remer Lane\r\nare progressing according to schedule. The contractor has completed\r\nthe inside first-level formwork for each of the pump stations and\r\nhas started tying rebar for installation. Clearing for the pipeline\r\nbehind the YMCA has also been completed, and a dewatering system\r\nhas been installed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nValdosta also has multiple other sanitary sewer collection system \r\nimprovement projects underway. Smoke testing of the entire 317-mile \r\nsewer collection system—of which 120 miles have been tested to\r\ndate—has been underway since 2013 and will continue through\r\n2016 to identify and eliminate sources of stormwater I&I. To date\r\napproximately two miles of faulty sewer mains have been relined as\r\na result of the smoke testing program. The city has also inspected\r\napproximately 50 percent of its 6,523 sewer manholes through its\r\nReplacement\/Rehabilitation Program, which began in early 2011.\r\nSince then, the city has either replaced or rehabilitated over 100\r\nmanholes and has committed to rehabilitate a minimum of 30 manholes\r\nper year. In the sewer lift station upgrade\/replacement program, 12\r\nof the 20 sewer lift stations identified under this program have\r\nbeen upgraded or replaced since 2010 with eight remaining stations\r\nto be completed by December 2016. This year the city is purchasing\r\nthe first of three emergency portable generators to be used at any\r\nsewer lift station during a power outage. The remaining two\r\ngenerators will be purchased by December 2016.\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nTo continue transparency and communication with citizens regarding \r\nthese improvements, project updates are posted to the city’s\r\nwebsite. This information is conveniently assessable to citizens by\r\nclicking on the drainage pipe icon at\r\nwww.valdostacity.com<\/a>\r\nor by going directly\r\nto www.valdostacity.com\/utilities<\/a>.\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received 8 Nov 2014 from Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll. -jsq City Ahead of Schedule on Sanitary Sewer Collection System Improvement Projects The City of Valdosta is making significant headway on two capital improvement projects that, once complete, will eliminate some sources of stormwater I&I; but more importantly, they will resolve the overwhelming majority of […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[7187,8701,8702,12,7,8018,2504,6629,6,8726,8727,58,295,6257],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-valdosta-city-council","category-water","tag-force-main","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-sanitary","tag-sewer","tag-stormwater","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-water","tag-withlacoochee-river","tag-withlacoochee-wastewater-treatment-plant","tag-wwtp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-2Vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11245,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/11245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"300x232](\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/f12c1f22f7ef5d3db2fe6362eb101fc0.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\nCity Ahead of Schedule on Sanitary Sewer Collection System\r\nImprovement Projects\r\n<\/p>\r\n