“I am delighted to see this come to fruition,” Mayor Bill Hereford said. “Water is crucial to industrial growth.”
He also commended Councilman Greg Gossett for his hard work serving on the Coosa Valley Water Supply District since he was elected to the council five years ago.
“Councilman Greg Gossett worked hard on this for a long time to ensure our water supply for the future, which is crucial to our growth,” Hereford said. “We are wholly dependent on wells. We all know surface water is the proper approach to our future water supply.”
He said well water will become something of the past.
City officials say well water is unreliable and many industries only want surface water for their industrial operations.
The council voted unanimously Tuesday, after a public hearing, to pay one-quarter of its share of the $32.9 million bond issue, which is expected to be secured on the bond market today.
City officials who were at Tuesday’s called council meeting and voted in favor of the agreement with the Coosa Valley Water Supply District were Hereford, Gossett and council members Dot Wood and Donnie Guinn.
According to the agreement, the city has agreed to pay its share of the principal and interest on the bonds secured today for the surface water treatment plant project.
The city does not have to pay its part of the bond issues until the facility is up and running or in about two years.
Under a joint agreement, the St. Clair County Commission, Odenville, Springville and Pell City are required to each purchase 750,000 gallons of water per day from the Coosa Valley Water Supply District, once the surface water treatment plant is operational.
The plant will initially pump 3 mgd (million gallons a day) of treated surface water.
The plant is capable of producing 6 mgd of treated surface water without any capital improvements. However, the facility is designed to pump as much as 12 mgd of treated water.
Gossett said construction of the facility is expected to start the first of next year, and the construction project is expected to take about two years to complete.
Officials say the Coosa Valley Water Supply District is slated to meet today at 5 p.m. to award the contracts for the $32.9 million surface water treatment plant project and to sign the bond agreement with bond purchasers.
The treatment plant she speaks of is a wastewater treatment that flows into the Coosa River.
The Water Quality Department takes care of 4 wells,five water tanks, the Wastewater Treatment plant, 36 lift stations and the entire sewage system.
How ever you should be worried about your water system signing up with this water supply.
A rough estement of what it is going to cost the city is 2 dollars per thousand times 750000 equals 1500 dollars a day times 365 equals 547500 per year.
They already can't cover the last budget, this means they will have to go up on their water rates.
Then to sell it out means they will have to go up even higher to cover that.