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CSO 3 Project |
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What is a CSO? Click here to find out from the EPA. CSO stands for Combined Sewer Overflow. Some older sewer systems are also drainage systems for streets and buildings. Under certain rainfall conditions, the amount of sewer and rainwater that enters the pipes is too much for the pipes to carry and they overflow human waste into streets, streams and rivers. EPA has long recognized the health risks associated with combined sewer overflows and has regulations under the Clean Water Act that ensure that these public health threats are addressed. In Maine, the Department of Environmental Protection enforces the CSO rules for EPA under Chapter 570, "Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement". In Augusta, the Greater Augusta Utility District has been actively managing CSO's for over a decade. The CSO3 project represents the third phase of CSO compliance. This round of work centers on the area near Bond Brook. This will eliminate several CSO's, improve an out of date sewer system, replace two old pump stations with one new one, improve flow into the wastewater plant and comply with upgraded river quality standards to reduce the amount of e. Coli that enters the Kennebec River by rebuilding the plant's effluent disinfection system. The list below summarizes the current schedule of compliance with abating the remainder of the CSO's in the Greater Augusta Utility District system.
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Please
visit this site for information pertaining to the Phase 3 Combined Sewer
Overflow project that will be starting in the Bond Brook area in 2009.
This is a $13M project that will help reduce sewer overflows from entering the
Kennebec River. This is the third of 4 CSO projects required for
compliance with the Clean Water Act as administered by the Maine Department of
Environmental Protection.