The proposed changes to the Perry Waste Water Treatment Plant

For the last several years, the City of Perry has been in the planning and funding acquisition phase of their waste water treatment plant reconstruction project, and it won’t be long before the construction phase takes off.

Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson says one of the last federal funding hoops they had to jump through was taken care of through a public hearing on a State Revolving Fund (SRF) loan at the most recent City Council meeting. Along with that, the Council approved the environmental study portion of the application, and will consider a resolution for final funding at their next meeting. Once all of that is in place, the City will have a bid letting, which Peterson believes could happen before the end of summer. “Hopefully that can go to bid in July and be awarded some time in August, (and we’ll) hopefully get started on that project out there at the treatment plant this fall, expecting probably an 18-24 month construction time frame. So definitely a longer construction period than projects that we’ve done in recent history, but we’re excited to get that going.”

Peterson credits the work done by City Engineers with Bolton and Menk for helping to keep the price of the facility down through their dealings with the Department of Natural Resources, specifically as it relates to the flow requirements of the system. To learn more about this and other City of Perry topics, listen to tomorrow’s Perry Fareway Let’s Talk Dallas County program on air and at RaccoonValleyRadio.com.